Paul Baskis
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Paul Baskis is an Illinois
biochemist, who, in the 1980s found a way of synthetically producing oil from industrial and household waste
s without expending more energy than is produced. This process was patented, U.S. patent 5,269,947, in 1993. The rights to the patent were acquired by Changing World Technologies
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Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
biochemist, who, in the 1980s found a way of synthetically producing oil from industrial and household waste
Waste
Waste is unwanted or useless materials. In biology, waste is any of the many unwanted substances or toxins that are expelled from living organisms, metabolic waste; such as urea, sweat or feces. Litter is waste which has been disposed of improperly...
s without expending more energy than is produced. This process was patented, U.S. patent 5,269,947, in 1993. The rights to the patent were acquired by Changing World Technologies
Changing World Technologies
Changing World Technologies , a privately held company, was founded in August 1997 by Brian S. Appel, the current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CWT and its subsidiaries. CWT was started primarily to develop and commercialize the thermal depolymerization technology, now referred to by the...
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