I finally found the company who's doing the thermal depolymerization process to make crude oil out of dang near anything. Called Changing World Technologies.

I read an article on an environmental site that says the oil made by this process is no different from using fossil fuels with regards to carbon emmissions. You're still putting carbon in the air. The difference is that you're no longer putting any MORE carbon in the air than is already present on the surface of the planet -- with fossile fuels you're bringing up carbon that's been safely locked away and inaccessible. I think it's a better process myself since in addition to this you're also dealing with the garbage problem and as a byproduct producing useful chemicals (depending on what goes in the process).

It is not hydrogen, but as an interim alternative it's at least as attractive as biodeisel and ethanol and methanol.

You can use electronic parts as feedstock and recover a great deal of the metals and chemicals used in their manufacture as well as getting oil out of the process. That alone is worth it.

This concludes my Green moment for the day.


The back cover blurb for Aquaria:

Money, mayhem and merriment – that's what Xyl wants back in her life after several weeks as Lieutenant William Grayson's reluctant "guest" as Atlantica recovers from the chaos of the Walking Dead riots. With her nanobots reactivated she can get back into NetSpace, get a job, find a new crew, and search for her best friend Pepper. She should have known it wouldn't be that easy. Crazy Eddie invites her to tag along with his crew to a block party that devolves into a riot when somebody in the crowd at the other end of Central Park frags a Security cloudhopper. She's saved from getting trampled in the panic by someone who should not exist – her own twin brother.

Xyl tries really, really hard not to ever think of her life before Pepper and Auriel and their friends. But she can't escape it when it's looking back at her out of the same silver eyes she sees every morning in the mirror. Now with Gracie on their trail after the two of them manage to kill a couple of Security troops, the choice is to confront their past together or let it fester until the whole thing blows up in their faces. Jodo runs with a crew of smugglers and it makes a good place to hide even when they leave Atlantica for the barren Wastelands, leaving behind all contact with NetSpace. Somehow Gracie knows about ViruCor and what she used to be and he won't give up until he brings it all out in the light. Either she and Jodo help him bring down the corp that created them or Gracie will turn them in for the murders they committed. But what Gracie doesn't know is that the situation is bigger than just a corporate slavery program – bigger than all of them. Big as in two hundred years of rewritten history and an insane Artificial Intelligence that plans to eat the entire world.

I have the front and back covers done save for the bar code, which must wait on the answer to a question I e-mailed to my distributor. Full CafePress price will be $24.13. Bulk order price will be $15.68. Usually BCH uses the bulk price so I don't know which one to use. Hence the question.

So hopefully next week I'll be uploading everything and getting the thing on CP, but not for immediate sale. I need to get some test copies sent to me to make sure it all works, then send in the paperwork to BCH and register the ISBN. Then I send off the copyright paperwork with 2 copies of the finished book. And hopefully by Thanksgiving I can release it publicly.

Well. So I'm working. It's just like the military, all hurry up and wait.