mmm, “chunky raw swine manure”
A link from Theo: Researchers learn to extract crude oil from pig manure.
The process accepts pig fecal matter and outputs a little water, carbon dioxide, and oil product with 3 times the energy content used to produce it. (That’s not counting, I presume, the energy cost of the pigs themselves.) Pretty nifty, even though it requires a guy whose job it is to “make sure there are no big chunks.”
I’m wondering if this can be adapted for use in municipal sewage systems.
August 26th, 2006 at 4:22 pm
I’m torn between “Ew” and “Hey, cool!”. It’d be neat to see this turn into something really applicable.