From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 00:46:05 MDT
I hope Kamen has a success but am doubtful. Glance, if you will, at the May
03 Discover Magazine's feature on a company now exploiting the chemistry of
thermal depolymerization. It takes energy to convert garbage/waste/filth to
energy or chem feedstocks, plastics; but not all that much. 500º and 15
minutes seems to do the trick, and that ain't bad. I believe the economics
are now comming into better focus (though with all this damn cheap Iraqi oil
comming our way, who knows how the finances will turn out?
Mike Lorrey said:
<<On the contrary, it would have a complementary place at eating
contests. Imagine that little Japanese guy who ate 50 hotdogs in 5
minutes. He is gonna need a hard core human waste disposal unit to
handle his post-contest ejecta.
On a serious note, I do think it will catch on in any jurisdiction that
has water supply problems. California, for instance, which is
confiscating water from as far away as Colorado these days, would
certainly pass laws mandating use of toilets that use far less water.
Any island country/state with similar water management issues.
The technology might also be used in agriculture to treat farm animal
waste before it reaches the watershed. Agriwaste is the biggest
pollution problem in the world, currently. It is the cause of the
pfisteria infestation in the Chesapeake, and is blamed for birth
defects and health problems with marine mammals around the world>>
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