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  • From: Marimike6@cs.com
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Giant grass
  • Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 07:15:52 EDT

"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




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