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I just don't know how much more of this I can take...my country, my beautiful country...is being flushed down the shitter by these bastards.

Before anyone starts buying stock in those companies with waste-into-oil schemes, check out the Kansas City Star article quoted and commented on by Bruce Sterling at http://www.viridiandesign.org/2005/05/viridian-note-00445-green-design.html

It seems they create really serious odor pollution problems and aren't profitable, at least in the U.S.

Changing World Technologies has been covered quite extensively over at my site http://www.thealders.net/blogs/2004/05/22/changing-world-technologies/ - they will be profitable at $80/bbl and with the way oil is climbing right now, andpeak oil on the horizon, that is not far off. Additionally those figures do not take into account the hard and soft savings a large municipality would have if it built its own TDP plant and diverted all of its organic waste to that plant for processing.

Before anyone starts buying stock in those companies with waste-into-oil schemes, check out the Kansas City Star article quoted and commented on by Bruce Sterling at http://www.viridiandesign.org/2005/05/viridian-note-00445-green-design.html

It seems the facilities create really serious odor pollution problems and aren't profitable, at least in the U.S. where we feed unused parts of animals to other animals.

Bituminous sand aka oil sands aka tar sands currently produce a barrel of synthetic crude for about $15 or so...The Athabasca Tar Sands in Canada have 32% of the world's oil reserves. It's profitable even at today's oil prices, and in the future, it can become a truly viable source for North America's oil needs.

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