Plasma Arc Waste Disposal

[acidbath32]

were going back to the future!

[Betli101]

Trust the white man.

[TheButtplug76]

The hydrogen actually powers the plant so it only emits water

[LibertyJewel]

Lies, Lies, Lies. It's an incinerator that releases toxic chemicals into the atmosphere.

[Lenangreal]

@LibertyJewel bullshit, the plasma waste disposal doesnt have chimneys

[PatrikMacGoohan]

Read the 10q detective's report on this company, it's officers and their technology. This is bullshit. You don't heat huge mountains of trash to 30,000 degrees fahrenheit without using a vast amount of energy. You do not create more energy than you use.

Also, nice pixely video you got there from a "high tech" company.

[acidbath32]

@PatrikMacGoohan haha huge tax return from huge energy consumption!

[Thurisaz314159]

Is there any way to scale it down?

[brasled]

Plasma can be used to process nuclear waste (minor actinides), but they have to be specially built, and are essentially nuclear reactors (experimental types such us ITER) in which the actinides are doped back into the plasma created during the reaction, thereby transmutating them into smaller, stabler products. This results in energy production. It has been estimated that 2 to 3 of these types of reactors could process all the nuclear actinides in US, but waster would have to be transported.

[CaptainSpork7]

So...could it destroy The Blob?

[Lenangreal]

@CaptainSpork7 yeah

[bghblue]

seems like a good idea but there bust be a reason it's not in use

[gsrvegas]

@bghblue Not a good reason. There are dangers associated but the biggest reason people aren't using it is because everyone of the plasma arc units needs to be made from scratch and it's not cheap.

[samurphy]

@bghblue Its expensive, and the gassified garbage can be harmful in worst case scenarios, though less so than other waste disposal systems.

They'll be standard soon, I expect, but they're hard to get funding for right now due to the novelty and huge price tag.

[MarsAttacks2035]

i cant believe the plasma converter has not become more popular. I dont understand why this seemingly great waste disposal system isnt being used everywhere.

[toohsas]

@MarsAttacks2035 Maybe its a patented and so in hands of the few.

[KingSlimjeezy]

@MarsAttacks2035 it costs A LOT of fucking money upfront, and currently there truly are not that many comercially viable uses for hydroen

[vladimir2277]

If you keep feeding it trash, does it produce enough fuel gas to keep the plasma arc going?

[samurphy]

@vladimir2277 The energy produced is larger than the energy consumed because of the use of trash as fuel. Because of the instant energy needs, I don't think you could have them free of the grid, but you can feed the excess energy back into the grid, so you have something that takes in trash and puts out useful products and power.

[PsionNinja]

Who knew that a strong electrical arc would be so useful?

[whereismymind87]

Hahaha.....Gee. I'm pretty sure his name was Tesla. Good one.

[plazmatyk]

@PsionNinja Nikola Tesla, for example :P

[jle727]

when is this video from. It looks like its from the 80s but i didn't know that this technology was that old.

[pyromohanzed]

The keyboard on the control table looks like it's from the 90's.

[ChrisPCrunchy]

Brilliant. Ive been mucking around with plasma arc through Hydrogen on a very small scale and getting amazing results. Appears over unity with heat generated. Can this handle nuclear waste? Great to see this technology being made commercial.What do you get by passing normal water through system. Is Hydrogen production this way more efficient that electrolysis? I wish you all the luck in the world, never has a product been so desperately needed.

[YNot1989]

It can, much like a nuclear waste vitrification system, but I have yet to see any information on how safe it is. And by the way the system is only self sufficient if the waste contains hydrocarbons, which most garbage does, but if you mixed the hydrocarbons with water you would likely get more hydrogen, and yes this is the more cost effective and practical, because it makes the hydrogen an energy source, not an energy carrier, as it would be with Electrolysis.

[ewmegoolies]

So, spraying the trash with a water jet before it enters the hopper should up the hydrogen production?

[JesusIsMyHomeDogg]

No it cannot process nuclear waste but just abot everything else!