Recycling junk cars into Oil.

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From: http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060407/AUTO01/604070383/1148

Big 3 can turn junk vehicles into gas
Research group unveils green technology that converts some of landfill's trash into oil, fuel, carbon.
David Shepardson / Detroit News Washington Bureau

Parts of that old clunker, destined for the scrap heap, might end up back in a gas tank, under new technology unveiled by Detroit automakers this week in Detroit.

Every year 15 million vehicles are scrapped in the United States and nearly all are recycled. But a quarter of the content -- such as glass, rubber, tires and foam -- ends up in landfills to the tune of nearly 8 billion pounds a year.

However, there may be a cure for that weighty ailment. The U.S. Council for Automotive Research released a study this week in Detroit about a new technology -- "thermal conversion process" -- that can turn some of the landfill's sludge into oil, fuel, gas and carbon.

The company that performed the study, Changing World Technologies Inc., used a plant in Carthage, Mo., where it has learned how to turn turkey bones and other scrapped animal parts into biofuels. If it works for turkey guts, the company argues, why not foam seats and other automotive leftovers.

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1. Brilliant

Love the idea.

:applause:

[skids]

2. Have you heard of Honda's "disassembly line?"

...or maybe it was Kia. They've got a working prototype car recycling line, unbolts everything and stacks all the identical parts up for recycling.

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3. "Changing World" is moving from turkey guts to cars.

If it sounds too good to be true...

There has been some debate about whether turkey guts "works..."

[suziedemocrat]

4. It works - it just isn't profitable because they have to pay for the waste

that could be used for animal feed. The last I read, a government agency monitored the plant to check for obnoxious smells and found that now the only foul odor is coming from the (existing) butterball plant and not the new CWT plant. As far as I know they have not had any government assistance or backing - so I commend them for charging ahead on their own.