12-18-2004, 07:37 PM | #1 (permalink) | |
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Check this out, there's a new power plant in Minnesota that runs on turkey poop. It is capable of procduing 55 megawatts and burns 700,000 tons of poop a year. The used poop is then turned into fertilizer. According to the article, this is old news in England, as there are 3 such power plants there already. Here' s the article:
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When I was checking to make sure this wasn't going to be a duplicate post, I found this old thread on technology that turns "poultry offal" (guts, skin, bones, fat, blood, and feathers) from slaughter houses into oil: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=39 |
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12-18-2004, 09:01 PM | #4 (permalink) | |
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12-18-2004, 10:19 PM | #6 (permalink) | |
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12-18-2004, 10:22 PM | #7 (permalink) | |
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that would be something if they tried to change our diets by taking over the food industry, then they take over our toilets
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