Bullet Points: A Paradigm Shift - From Waste to Fuel
A PARADIGM SHIFT — FROM WASTE TO FUEL
Brian S. Appel (CEO, Changing World Technology)
- Waste-to-fuel (producing energy out of everyday items) is considered a renewable diesel
- Proportionally distributed where people are located
- Proportionate to the amount of energy consumed in these areas
- Thermal conversion process, or thermal depolymerization:
- Waste fuel is produced using water, temperature, and pressure
- Takes waste (e.g. fats, bones, feathers, sludges, tires, even refrigerators) and grinds it up
- Remaining material is pressurized and heated in pumps; separates organics from inorganics (calcium, phosphates, and other solids are separated from proteins, carbohydrates, and fat)
- Advantages of biodiesel waste-to-fuel include:
- Biodiesel is a direct substitute for fossil fuel-based energy
- Reduces the need for fossil fuel drilling
- Future fuel costs could be controlled; hedge role in relation to oil
- Interruptions in fuel supply less likely in the event of a war
- If we could use waste, we would less likely go to war over oil
- Agricultural waste — 6 billion tons per year
- People massed around where waste exists and energy is needed; transportation costs can be dramatically cut
- Industrial waste makes up 768 million tons per year
- Animal waste (the carcasses of chickens, cows, and pigs, which would otherwise be used as feed for other animals) totaling 23 million tons per year, could produce 30 million barrels of fuel per day
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