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Originally Posted by glatt
Pretty cool. It's not completely clean, of course. When the fuels are burned to make electricity, there is some pollution.
They've been talking about this for years. It's time for some cities to implement it.
I posted about another company's similar process a few years ago. |
Here's an update on the Changing World Technologies TDP:
http://i-r-squared.blogspot.com/2007...s-reality.html
It's a little long. Here's a short excerpt:
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The Bloom Comes off the Rose
So, where does the technology stand today? How far off were those $8 or $15/bbl costs estimates? After all they had run the pilot plants. They had "done so much testing in Philadelphia", they "already know the costs." Turns out they didn't:
Reports from 2005 summarized some economic setbacks which the Carthage plant encountered since its planning stages. It was thought that concern over mad cow disease would prevent the use of turkey waste and other animal products as cattle feed, and thus this waste would be free. As it turns out, turkey waste may still be used as feed in the United States, so that the facility must purchase that feed stock at a cost of $30 to $40 per ton, adding $15 to $20 per barrel to the cost of the oil. Final cost, as of January 2005, was $80/barrel ($1.90/gal).
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There's a lot more.
If you're still interested, there's a follow-up to that article here:
http://i-r-squared.blogspot.com/sear...20Technologies