] Technological savvy could turn 600 million tons of turkey ] guts and other waste into 4 billion barrels of light ] Texas crude each year ] ] Gory refuse, from a Butterball Turkey plant in Carthage, ] Missouri, will no longer go to waste. Each day 200 tons ] of turkey offal will be carted to the first ] industrial-scale thermal depolymerization plant, recently ] completed in an adjacent lot, and be transformed into ] various useful products, including 600 barrels of light ] oil. ] ] In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine ] that can change almost anything into oil. ] ] Really. ] ] "This is a solution to three of the biggest problems ] facing mankind," says Brian Appel, chairman and CEO of ] Changing World Technologies, the company that built this ] pilot plant and has just completed its first ] industrial-size installation in Missouri. "This process ] can deal with the world's waste. It can supplement our ] dwindling supplies of oil. And it can slow down global ] warming." Anything into Oil |