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I've been following up on this story with google news searches from time to time since the story first went mainstream in Discover about 18 months ago. It does seem to be a valid concept. They're running the turkey guts plant at about 50 percent capacity while they work out quality problems, emission problems (the neighbors were complaining), yield, and so on.
The true value of this technology will come when it reaches maturity and can be applied more flexibly. One of the things CWT would like to do, but hasn't attempted yet, is to make a plant that can depolymerize solid waste from sewage treatment plants into oil. We make a lot of shit everyday in this country. If we could turn the majority of it into oil, we'd save a lot of money on disposal, clean the environment, and reduce our dependence on imported oil by 50 to 100 percent.
This doesn't address global warming, of course. Only a CO2-free (or near-free) energy source will do that.
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