Company Seeks Fortune Turning Garbage Into Oil

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=Y24V534ZWIFLMCRBAEOCFFA?type=ourWorldNews&storyID=3122131


Company Seeks Fortune Turning Garbage Into Oil


By Francesca Segre
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Finally, a possible use for old tires and turkey bones.

A privately held company run by a former candy salesman is working on turning everyday garbage into oil that can be used to heat homes and turned into fuel to power car engines.

Changing World Technologies has built a pilot plant in a Philadelphia Navy Yard warehouse that uses a process called thermal depolymerization to mimic and speed up the natural process for making oil.

The West Hempstead, New York-based company has already turned personal computers, old tires and even turkey bones and feathers into oil, Chief Executive Brian Appel said.

"We are supercharging that process and doing in minutes what the earth would naturally do over hundreds of thousands of years," Appel said.

Changing World Technologies said the advantages of making oil from garbage is that it controls waste while also reducing dependence on foreign oil and slowing global warming.

But not everyone is convinced.

"(The process) sounds like an interesting chemical innovation but unless you can prove who can use the oil and how, its market value is not clear," said Sarah Emerson, managing director of Energy Security Analysis Inc., an independent energy research firm.

Instead of waiting for nature to take its course -- that is for decomposing plants and animals to be mashed, pressured and heated by sliding tectonic plates -- Changing World Technologies uses a shredding and grinding machine.

GRINDING OUT OIL

The machine loudly grinds the waste into a slurry mixture, which is then fed through an intense heating and pressuring process that separates out oil. The oil is then refined.

Proof the process works on a larger scale will come when the company opens its first plant later this year, Appel said.

Changing World Technologies has created a joint venture with ConAgra Foods Inc., the second largest U.S. food maker, to build a plant in Missouri near ConAgra's ButterBall turkey factory......MORE

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Finally a way to recycle dead dinosaur regimes!

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1. run by a former candy salesman

Gee, doesn't that sound all American.

The May 2003 issue of Discover Magazine did a story about Changing World Technologies (CWT) system to turn garbage into oil. First, the inventor of the process is named Baskis, a microbiologist and inventor who lives in Rantoul, Illinois. "The prototype I saw produced a heavy, burned oil," recalls Baskis. "I drew up an improvement and filed the first patents." He spent the early 1990s wooing investors and, in 1996, met Brian Appel, the "former candy salesman (first job) and a former commodities trader. "I saw what this could be and took over the patents," says Appel, who formed a partnership with the Gas Technology Institute and had a demonstration plant up and running by 1999.

There is a heavy military influence at CWT with James Woolsey as the "Military Advisor" and Franklin Kramer as Executive Vice President (bios below). CWT has already gotten over 12 million from the US government for their work.


R. James Woolsey – Military Advisor

R. James Woolsey is currently with the consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton in McLean, Virginia and was formerly a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Shea and Gardner. Mr. Woolsey served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency for two years, returning to law practice in 1995. His practice has increasingly been international, focused on arbitration and mediation. He is presently a member of the Board of Directors and Board of Managers of seven companies and the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.

Mr. Woolsey has intermittently interrupted his law career to serve in other U.S. Government positions which have included: Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989-1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977-1979; General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services 1970-1973. He was also appointed by the President as Delegate-at-Large to the U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (STAR and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks, NST), and served in that capacity on a part-time basis in Geneva from 1983 to 1986.

Mr. Woolsey received his B.A. Degree in 1963 from Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa (With Great Distinction); an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar from 1963 to 1965; and an L.L. Degree from Yale Law School in 1968, where he was Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

((and PNAC member))


Franklin D. Kramer is Executive Vice President of Changing World Technologies, Inc. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Kramer served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. Previously, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in 1996; as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1979 to 1981; and as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1977 to 1979. In these capacities, Mr. Kramer was an architect of numerous international initiatives including enlarging NATO through the admission of Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, and chairing bilateral and multilateral defense activities in Asia and the Middle East. During his career, Mr. Kramer served for 20 years at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C. as a partner and an associate. Mr. Kramer currently serves on the Strategic Advisory Council for Lockheed Martin Corp.; as Associate Chair for Ashoka Innovators for the Public; as a Trustee for ANSER Corporation; a Director for Liquidity Services, Inc.; a Fellow for the Center for Naval Analyses and a Director of the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C. Mr. Kramer received a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he served as Executive Editor of The Harvard Law Review, and was a law clerk to the Honorable J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

edit to add links:

Discover article: http://www.discover.com/search/index.html

Woolsey bio: http://www.changingworldtech.com/aboutfr.htm

Kramer bio: http://www.changingworldtech.com/aboutfr.htm

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2. The energy crisis is solved!

Just hook this gizmo up to the transcripts of any and all Bush* press conferences. We will soon be bathing in oil!

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