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Turn plastic into oil

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  • #2
    CarMuppet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭CarMuppet


    Wonder how much energy you need to put it to get your final product? What's the nett energy advantage? Brilliant video.


  • #3
    Solnskaya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Solnskaya


    Makes sense, plastic is processed from oil, why not process it back. It might not be energy neutral(the heat required etc), but you could heat the process with coal, which does not burn too well in your car. We could be digging up those landfills yet.


  • #4
    Matt Simis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Matt Simis


    Im very interested, though the price ($12,000 for the smallest version) is still extremely prohibitive.

    http://www.blest.co.jp/seihin-1.html (translate on the fly in Google Chrome..)

    Power Consumption = 1KW/hr
    Slow, Upto 1kg an hour (translated wrong as "times"?) processing ability (1Kg = 1Litre of oil). Would take nearly 4 days and 90kg of plastic to make enough "oil" to fuel my car.
    Easy to use

    No specs on what it takes to take this mystery "oil" from initial product to Petrol/Diesel etc. I suspect its quite far from Petrol, possibly combustible as is as diesel.


  • #5
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    LIGHTNING wrote: »
    I would be that its a large net energy loss however that's not really important. You could use a renewal energy source like solar to provide the energy needed for the conversion. We have a nearly unlimited source of energy via the sun and limited supplies of oil so the loss wouldn't matter.

    The Arab countries could go back to producing oil once the oil runs out :D

    Use huge solar arrays in the deserts to turn the world's plastic garbage into oil


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