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"Thermal Depolymerisation" - Resources from waste
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Here is some more interesting info about this process that I've found:
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June 27th, 2004 | #5 |
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A few years ago I worked for some gentlemen, of Italian decent, that had developed this system to operate off of effluent from sewage treatment plants. They were trying to establish a test facility somewhere in New Jersey but kept running into brick walls with community, county and state officials. If anyone knows what Jersey is full of, it's shit. This process would put all of it to good use and the byproduct, besides energy resources, is fertalizer. Another + for 'the garden state'. I guess the energy and chem. companies don't want this sort of thing to catch on. Wouldn't be good for their coffers.
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June 27th, 2004 | #7 |
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Those 100MPG carb inventors and their inventions do seem to have a history of being "shelved" by monied interests. Very interesting process. Would the product of this process technically be synthetic oil? Synthetics still command a substantial price difference. Because it is a better oil.
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August 2nd, 2004 | #8 |
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As a technology its been around for years, and ought to be developed further not least to help the 'West' get away from dependency on imported oil feedstocks.
http://www.gasification.org/ "What is Gasification? The gasification process converts any carbon-containing material into a synthesis gas composed primarily of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, which can be used as a fuel to generate electricity or steam or used as a basic chemical building block for a large number of uses in the petrochemical and refining industries." In pre-war central Europe, some farms lucky enough to have 'modern' agricultural vehicles used to run heavy vehicles on 'wood gas'. Ive got some quaint photos of an Uncles farm in west prussia with the old fellows largest Tractor and farm truck rigged up with wood gas tanks(bags that were essentially balloons that carried the gasified fuel tied with ropes on the roof - for agricultural vehicles, aerodynamic qualities were not a consideration ) . Even scrap wood can be turned into fuel for a car and theres now renewed interest in woodgas - years after it was in mainstream use in central Europe http://www.woodgas.com/Gasification.htm Last edited by TheGreenMan; August 2nd, 2004 at 11:04 PM. |
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