Re: Renewable energy alternative

From: Chris Torek (nospam_at_torek.net)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: 7 Jul 2004 00:39:57 GMT

In article <40eb0421.111075377@news.txol.net> Rex B <rex@inoli.com> wrote:
>It's my understanding that creation of petroleum from biomass
>has never been successfully duplicated in a laboratory. This would
>indicate that the origin of petroleum as fossil fuels is basically
>a theory.

"Thermal depolymerization" has been around for quite a while as a
lab curiosity. It works just fine. The problem has been, in the
past, that it took about 5 units of energy to produce each 1-unit-of-energy
worth of oil.

Within the last few years, however, one group has found a way to
do it as a "net energy positive", and has gone commercial. See
<http://www.changingworldtech.com/>. I will note that I have not
been able to get any new information out of that web site for more
than a month now -- the claim that the Carthage MO plant will be
operational "in the next few weeks" has been there for at least a
few weeks... 

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