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Donal, the plastic oil video

Beetlejuice — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 14:07:00 +0000

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Donal, the plastic oil video is awesome!

A kilo of plastic is about 2.2 pounds. That's quite a lot of material. You'd be surprised how much it is depending on the density of the material.

And you're right about it being cost effective. The machine reminds me of a still...heat the mash, the vapors rise and travel up to a coil tube which cools the vapor to a liquid. The key here is how much time does it take to exchange 1 kilo of plastic into 1 liter of oil? And the conversion time uses a specific amount of power too. So is the conversion costs lower than the oil extracted? If it costs more to produce the oil then it's toy.

Here in Germany, we have to separate paper, plastic/metals/tins, and food into separate, distinct containers for public pick-up. I know the Germans burn lots of food trash that has no productive secondary use in incinerators which I suspect produce steam for electrical power plants. I can see them doing this with plastics if it's cost effective in a large scale operation.

What a glorious time

Resistance — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:20:18 +0000

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What a glorious time ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwhD7jwwwkw

Fascinating.I wonder if the

Richard Day — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:00:54 +0000

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Fascinating.

I wonder if the plastic to oil machine has residue and if you can use the gas you produce to run the machine?

The wind machine is really interesting.

I thought the graphics were

Resistance — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 07:24:00 +0000

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I thought the graphics were good; very simple and cute.

What a great idea on the science side also.

Maybe they could put some small capillary tubing into the panels, and move solar heated water. ......A design patterned off of the concept found in a leaf.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention Donal

Heres another I was shown. I don't know if it is real.........Japanese inventor creates machine to convert plastic "trash" back into oil

http://www.flixxy.com/convert-plastic-to-oil.htm