"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
...
I've heard somewhere that the thermal depolymerization plant in
Carthage, MO. runs off its own output and generates 500bbl of light oil
per day off 200 tons of turkey offal from the nearby Butterball turkey
packaging factory.

Recycling is a good thing, no doubt.

But that's not anywhere close to answer the question of being
self-sufficient. Even ignoring the question of the energy required to
produce the turkeys, that project's own web site
(http://www.res-energy.com/faq/index.asp) does not suggest that they are
self-sufficient. They say nothing about using their own output as their
energy source (nor are the figures you quote actual numbers...they are
*anticipated*, which is another word for "hoped for").

Pete