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LiberalEsto

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4. This is awesome!

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Mon Mar 10, 2014, 03:16 PM

Mar 2014

I kind of predicted something like this in a science fiction story I was trying to write about 30 years ago but, naturally, never got around to finishing.

I wonder how cost-effective this process is in terms of the amount of electricity and heat required to concert the plastic to oil. Also, what the net savings in terms of CO2 release would be. The more cost-effective, the more likely it will be adopted into widespread use.

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Japanese Ingenuity -- Save your plastic [View all] Playinghardball Mar 2014 OP

That's pretty damn cool Xyzse Mar 2014 #1

I hope that its for real.... Playinghardball Mar 2014 #2

I mean, it makes sense since plastics are made from petro chemicals. Xyzse Mar 2014 #3

This is awesome! LiberalEsto Mar 2014 #4

I have my doubts... Wounded Bear Mar 2014 #5

A little more information... Playinghardball Mar 2014 #6

I agree with Wounded Bear amerikat Mar 2014 #8

I remember seeing something similar back in the '90s rurallib Mar 2014 #7

You would need to control the feedstock. amerikat Mar 2014 #9