enthalpy

Tuesday, April 13, 2004


Sometimes pig crap is just pig crap.
The thermochemical conversion process uses intense heat and pressure to break down the molecular structure of manure into oil. It's much like the natural process that turns organic matter into oil over centuries, but in the laboratory the process can take as little as a half-hour.

A similar process is being used at a plant in Carthage, Mo., where tons of turkey entrails, feathers, fat and grease from a nearby Butterball turkey plant are converted into a light crude oil, said Julie DeYoung, a spokeswoman for Omaha, Neb.-based Conagra Foods, which operates the plant in a joint venture with Changing World Technologies of Long Island, N.Y.
I've read about that plant in Carthage, Mo, making oil out of turkey guts, but I didn't know it was operational. If I've learned nothing else from thermodynamics, and I haven't, it's that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.



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