[Peace] homemade oil

[wiseman sarah ruth]

This is an event, but you don't march in it, you read about it:


The May issue of Discover magazine has an article about how it is now
possible to manufacture high-grade fuel oil out of anything that contains
carbon and is not nuclear waste. Paul Baskis of Rantoul invented the
process. A plant is already in operation in Carthage, MO, built next to a
turkey processing plant and using its waste as the carbon source. Most of
the technology is not new. It requires only 15% as much energy to make the
oil as there is potentially available in the oil produced. Water used in
the process is returned sterile (because it is a depolymerization process
and breaks down molecular chains, killing any germs).

Do you know of any countries that have carbon in their waste stream?

Do you know of any countries that would like to make their own oil and not
be jerked around by a country that thinks it can solidify its hegemony by
owning the oil in the middle east?

The article says the U.S. imported 4.2 billion barrels of oil in 2000,
mostly from S. America. It says it would be possible in 5-10 years to
produce 4 billion barrels with this process at about 8 dollars a barrel.

If this happens, likely the U.S. would change its tune. Probably trying to
own all the water in the world. But the modulation would be even less
"subtle" than our claim to want to liberate Iraq.

May issue of Discover magazine. Read it.

Sarah Wiseman