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Turkey Fuel? Factory to Turn Guts Into Crude OilNovember 25, 2003

As Americans prepare to gobble down 45 million turkeys on Thursday*, a factory in Carthage

Missouri, is turning the feathers and innards of the feted bird into a clean-burning fuel oil. Changing

World Technologies (CWT), a New York environmental technology company that is behind th

project, also has plans to turn the organic waste from chickens, cows, hogs, onions, and Parmesan

cheese into light crude oil.

The company works such miracles through thermo-depolymerization (TDP), a process by which waste

materials are broken down by intensive heat and pressure to produce natural gas, fuel oil, and

minerals. Barring nuclear waste, anything can yield these goods, according to proponents of the

process: 100 pounds (45 kilograms) of tires, for instance, yields 44 pounds (20 kilograms) of oil

TDP mimics the Earth's own recipe for fossil fuels, but shaves millions of years off the production

time. The company's CEO, Brian Appel, says he can turn any type of carbon-based wastebe it

computers or offalinto combustible fuel. But he admits many people are skeptical.

Any technology that promises to empty U.S. landfills, reduce dependence on foreign oil, and create a

clean-burning crude is going to attract naysayers.

(Excerpt from:http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/11/1125_031125_turkeyoil.html)

* Thanksgiving Day is always on a Thursday. In the United States everyone eats turkey at Thanksgiving

http://2100science.com/Videos/Thermal_Depolymerization.aspx

Find a word in the text that means:

a). people who support an idea or movement.

b). produce; results in

c). garbage; the useless parts of plants, animals or other things.

d). with the exception of; not including

e). to decompose; to separate into more basic components (careful, its a phrasal verb)

f). people who criticize or a skeptical of an idea or proposition.

Fill the blank with the correct preposition: (HINT: look at the text)

The TDP process is the first step for turning turkey feathers _____ bio-fuel.

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Join these two sentences using a relative pronoun:

Thermo-depolymerization can create clean-burning fuel from peoples garbage. This process mimics

Natures way of creating oil.

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Change the following sentence into active voice:

Turkey slurry is heated and pressurized by means of a process called TDP to create crude oil.

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