permaculture

[Marimike6@cs.com]

"How about waste  digesters? They are closer to the permaculture goal of 
using waste as a resource. - Claudia "

Waste digesters are great. I particularly like the thermal depolymerization 
plant they have going in (I think) Missouri, to process turkey offal. Lots of 
ugly organic products of our civilization, like medical waste, need to be 
disposed of in a way that transforms them utterly. Transforming them into 
auto fuel 
is a cool idea.

But we're a very long way from doing it at an affordable cost per gallon. And 
we're even further from being able to contribute a meaningful percentage of 
the 65 billion gallons of gasoline and diesel we consume each year just in 
our 
personal vehicles-- not counting our commercial fleet and, of course, our 
consumption-heavy military monolith.

That's a lot of turkey carcasses.

M. Elvin