To: #1CTYankee
Everything that goes into Frank Pringle’s recycling machine—a piece of tire, a rock, a plastic cup—turns to oil and natural gas seconds later A tire or a plastic cup I could believe. They are both made of a lot of complex carbon compounds and I could see them breaking down into various alkanes. The rock is where he jumped the perpetual energy shark.
12 posted on
12/11/2007 9:14:13 AM PST by
KarlInOhio
(Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.)
To: KarlInOhio
Hey, whatever happened to Changing Worlds Technology, and their “trash into oil” thermal depolymerisation process?
15 posted on
12/11/2007 9:18:28 AM PST by
Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
(Conservatives - Freedom WITH responsibility; Libertarians - Freedom FROM responsibility)
To: KarlInOhio
Those same petrochemical-based materials could probably be used more efficiently as fuel to a thermal generating plant, without the extra energy input of the microwave machine.
33 posted on
12/11/2007 9:54:48 AM PST by
-YYZ-
(Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson