Converting rubber and plastic to oil and gas

[ldavis741]

This is Awesome! Recently I saw some pieces on shows like CNN and the journal with Joan Lunden on PBS that were talking about issues and solutions for industrial recycling. This kind of thing takes it to the next level. Things look pretty bad sometimes but some of these technologies bring some hope into the situation.

[Danster82]

They make it appear more advanced than it actually is, but its basically just water distillation but with melted plastic instead of water.

[ik4rm]

@Danster82 aaahhhhh yeah. and rain is pretty much the same thing as volcanoes. liquid there and liquid there, you know what i'm saying. and stars too, liquid nitrogen and helium. and glass is basically liquid too so why not put it in either.

[Danster82]

@ik4rm The plastic heats up until it evaporates the oil, the gas is trapped and then condensed back into liquid form, what dont you get about this?

[william8061]

Yet...Big oil and our own governments keeps ideas like this under wraps...WHY??? Our government is run by the oil companies....

[ik4rm]

@william8061 by now, this technology consumes more energy than it saves. this is just an idea, and since it was published (more than 3 years ago) there were many perspective developments in the field, funded, between others, by your government and my government.

[Bratbaticus]

@ik4rm

From what I read this machine can be described as a self powered tire recycler.

That also churns out combustible gases.

[Topazman12]

Now, there is a Japanese inventor who made a machine that turns plastic into oil and gas.

[serasviktoria]

@Topazman12

the video is called:

Mr. Akimori ITO Invents a machine to convert plastic back to Oil and greatly reduce CO2 footprint

[MrVrsilvestrejr2008]

We can use SOLAR Energy (FREE Energy) to power this machine. It solved the soil, air and water pollution and GLOBAL Warming.  How much is this apparatus in US$???

[ik4rm]

@MrVrsilvestrejr2008 solar energy isn't free, it's renewable. you can't collect solar energy without investing in collectors, accumulators etc.

[BurtBartlow]

I call bullshit.

[dittocopys]

me nither....i just pressed up computre keys.......i turned into oil once.

[legokidnaruto]

wow this is amazing technology its like what we have been waiting for to save the enviroment

[CaptainKanuk42]

The problem is how do you get the carbon out of the air. Once you can do that then we're okay, this still relies on carbon being mined.

[ik4rm]

CaptainKanuk42, you mean CO/CO2?

this technology doesn't solve this problem, but it could help diminishing the synthetic waste that's currently polluting millions of hectars, either on the land, on sea surface and bottom. used tires, which are the most prominent target of this technology, as i presume, are a huge problem, actually, there's no clean way to recycle them at all.

[CaptainKanuk42]

It doesn't matter, CO2 direct causes greenhouse warming, and CO indirectly causes it through secondary reaction products. The problem is that we need to sequester carbon badly; and if we turn the tires into fuel all the carbon in the tires is going right into the atmosphere. I'd much rather we sequester it in a landfill or even the ocean. If there's a better way I'd choose that obviously.

[ik4rm]

btw, i'm not connected to this in any way, just found it online a couple of years ago

[dittocopys]

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[ik4rm]

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[SamIves85]

Glad to see that these materials can be recycled, and into tow products too!

lol "Is it a good idea to microwave this?" YES! :D

[bluetoaster8822]

Why don't they just grow a shitload of hemp, and turn that into fuel?

[ik4rm]

if there's any thc in it, somebody is going to make a shitload of drug-money from it.

to take thc out you have to genetically modify it and then you have to face a shitload of gen-modified plant that is very hard to keep from wheat filds and such in the first place.

and besides, there's still no efficient technology for biomass2fuel conversion.

well, legalize anyway! XD

[bluetoaster8822]

Hemp contains extremely low levels of THC. It wouldn't be cost-effective, for someone to sell it as if it were THC-rich cannabis.

Some idiot had the bright idea of converting corn (one of our most important food supplies) into biofuel, which is one of the reasons our economy is fucked.

People out there have agendas, to make sure all the money stays in their pockets and that no one else can get it. That's why they haven't found an efficient way of creating biofuel yet. :(

[AloofPeregrine]

@bluetoaster8822 How about algae?

[bluetoaster8822]

@AloofPeregrine That's up to the powers that be.

[zardiw]

A much better question is how much energy does it take (electricity ain't cheap), vs how much energy (fuel) comes out............z

[tvryb]

PHENOMENAL!!!!

how long does this process take?

[Melbourne3099]

Keep Michael Jackson the hell away from that thing.

[ik4rm]

why, he's gonna turn to dust and oil? ;) or molest it? or make it a *thriller*? :D

[Melbourne3099]

I reckon theres enough plastic in that guy to run my car for 2 years.

[ik4rm]

"i'm running out of Jackson" sounds nice ;)

[TheYeasteatingwalrus]

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[roscom1tm]

amazing

[hrosemd]

I wonder how much electricity (made by burning coal, of course) that microwave uses to make all that wonderful oil.

[Jibbie49]

If you go to GLOBAL RESOURCE CORPORATION's web site, it will explain what energy it takes to do this conversion.

[ik4rm]

electricity doesn't have to be generated by polluting technology. there are enough ways to make it clean: solar power, wind, tidal wave...

[scantleguy]

I read in Popular Science the yield is about 17 to 1 I think.

[3089280288]

Ground up tires are use in making today's artificial turf fields.