Re:Exposing the Myth of Plastic Recycling
by travisporter on Monday September 23, 2019 @10:28AM
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I’ve read that plasma gasification is very energy intensive and elsewhere that we have a lot of renewable energy wasted because of no storage. Is there an opportunity there to get rid of plastic without damage to the environment?
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Re:Exposing the Myth of Plastic Recycling
by voxic11 on Monday September 23, 2019 @11:28AM
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plasma gasification is very energy intensive but in theory at least it releases more energy than you put in. I think all the operational plants right now still use slightly more energy than they capture. And some of them (like the tiny ones aboard US aircraft carriers) don't even attempt to capture the energy created.