machine converts plastic into oil @ 20cents a litre

[ramset]

Jikwan
Do you have a link directly to the info?
This Compu I'm using has "Issues" with "speed".
Thanks
Chet

[Sprocket]

I see a couple of problems, first it must take a lot of energy to melt & boil off the plastic.  Second, this is not a new idea - I'm sure it was posted on this forum, 1-2 years ago about some american start-up that had a proven process of converting garbage of every kind from landfills to hydrocarbon-based fuel.  Whatever happened to them???

Come to think of it, someone should start a thread titled "Whatever happened to..." to highlight the number of seemingly revolutionary ideas that seemed sure-fire winners but were never heard of again...

[jikwan]

chet, its a conspiracy forum
it has all kinds of things on it
its the very best of its kind imo

its a thread currently running into 9 pages
everybodys excited about it
i right clicked to get send link
the link they give is the same as what
i posted on here

the 20cent cost to heat the plas
may or may not be on that thread
might be in the other articles i read
hell if i can remember what sites i used

[jikwan]

sprocket,
like hell if i can find my "20cent" source
i read it somewhere and it seemed valid

if it took 2$ to heat absolutly no one would
use it

also this guy is japanese
sounds as though hes the inventor

[ResinRat2]

In the Polymer Synthesis Lab where I work we manufacture many Resins at high temperatures and under pressure. We avoid going above 445°F (229°C) because the polymers begin to de-polymerize as well as polymerize. My guess is that this is simply what he is doing. He is heating the material above 450°F (232°F) and cracking the polymers, this unit then distills the product into the water-containing collection reservoir.

This is not complicated at all. You just need a reactor that is sealed and has a distillation tube at the top. Since our petroleum products are made from oil in the same way you should, overall, get more energy out from the distillates than is required to run the process.

This looks like a very simple way to recycle our waste plastics.