Chad,
I thought this was a new idea, which is why I asked Emil to post the link.
I had no idea it had/has been around for years.
Thank you fore your informative message.
Christine
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From: "chad abrams" <abramsc...@gmail.com>
To: "The Charles Village Chat List" <chat@charlesvillage.info>
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 11:49:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Chat] man turns plastic back to oil
Thanks for sharing
This is the first i've seen of a portable machine of this type. The technology
for this type of conversion has been around for years-- the challenge has been
making it economically and/or environmentally feasible (eg is the energy used
to generate the heat/electricity worth the energy exchange of the oil produced)
There are other examples...
http://www.mindfully.org/Energy/2003/Anything-Into-Oil1may03.htm (turkey
guts/waste into oil on a larger scale).
I have been driving diesels since 1998 and have been an advocate of bio-fuels
(or alternative to ground-based-oil extraction) for years. There are
challenges w/ bio (plant based) fuels as we can't possibly grow enough fuel to
meet our needs and there is concern that diverting food matter into energy
production drives up food prices and disproportionately affects poor/developing
economies. Having said that.. technology is emerging/being developed so that
we can attempt to convert any biomass (the stalk of the corn plant and not
just the ear of corn we typically eat--). Additionally, ideas such as those
presented in the video below (mining the garbage dump to convert waste into
oil) provide incredible opportunity.
thank you for sharing
Chad
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 7:19 PM, < langwi...@comcast.net > wrote:
http://www.flixxy.com/convert-plastic-to-oil.htm
christine
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