Filipino inventor converts used plastics to diesel, kerosene and gasoline - Polidicks

Pinoy represent!

Hell, here is a basic graph showing how several university students do it from 2010. [url]http://www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk/dtc-low-carbon-technologies/news-events/2010/documents/waste-plastic.pdf[/url]

I guarantee this will just go away like everything else. It sounds all nutty conspiracy-theory-ish, but at the end of the day, inventions and solutions like this have the potential to put our big oil suppliers and companies out of business, and the lengths they go to to lock this stuff away is astounding. We'll probably wind up reading a report on a few no-name sites talking about it and mentioning how it 'wasn't practical' or some nonsense, not even realising that it was forcibly stopped from going ahead. I don't really subscribe to the whole 'big brother keeping us down' kind of stuff, but I've seen similar things happen here in Australia and it just plain sucks. It's like some of these fusion power solutions or power solutions we've seen in the last few years that have been proven via practical tests to work 100% effectively, but which are simply never heard from again. And not because of funding issues or anything like that... they just up and vanish. It happens far too often. Hell, some recent events have even shown me that it extends to things as varied as cancer cures. There are many alternative treatments for cancer that actually WORK (my mum's just had some done and the simple facts are that she went from having stage 4 breast cancer to being completely free of it and healthy again with barely even a needle poked her way). The fact is that if these alternatives are pursued, be it oil / fuel alternatives, cancer treatments, etc, then these big players can't force feed us their costly and abundant products that keep us completely dependant on them, and that's just not acceptable. Fuck, I feel like a nutter typing all this.

[QUOTE=Sobek-;37026374]I guarantee this will just go away like everything else. It sounds all nutty conspiracy-theory-ish, but at the end of the day, inventions and solutions like this have the potential to put our big oil suppliers and companies out of business, and the lengths they go to to lock this stuff away is astounding. We'll probably wind up reading a report on a few no-name sites talking about it and mentioning how it 'wasn't practical' or some nonsense, not even realising that it was forcibly stopped from going ahead. I don't really subscribe to the whole 'big brother keeping us down' kind of stuff, but I've seen similar things happen here in Australia and it just plain sucks. It's like some of these fusion power solutions or power solutions we've seen in the last few years that have been proven via practical tests to work 100% effectively, but which are simply never heard from again. And not because of funding issues or anything like that... they just up and vanish. It happens far too often. Hell, some recent events have even shown me that it extends to things as varied as cancer cures. There are many alternative treatments for cancer that actually WORK (my mum's just had some done and the simple facts are that she went from having stage 4 breast cancer to being completely free of it and healthy again with barely even a needle poked her way). The fact is that if these alternatives are pursued, be it oil / fuel alternatives, cancer treatments, etc, then these big players can't force feed us their costly and abundant products that keep us completely dependant on them, and that's just not acceptable. Fuck, I feel like a nutter typing all this.[/QUOTE] Did you read the post 3 above you? [B]This is old technology[/B] the media are hyping up as 'newly discovered' because they don't check any facts. [B]This is -not- groundbreaking[/B]. Big industry has been doing this for[B] decades[/B]. I also seriously doubt your cancer story. What the hell kind of treatment does that? Do tell.

now if we can just turn the great Pacific garbage patch (mostly plastic) into fuel...

[QUOTE=Furioso;37028320]now if we can just turn the great Pacific garbage patch (mostly plastic) into fuel...[/QUOTE] They can do that. They could do that for years. It's too expensive to pick it all up and store it.

I've thought of this idea before, as I'm sure many people have. If the same process that made the plastics (oil in a distillation tower) why can't you sort of "refine" it back? Genius idea, although the guy might wake up one day with a spear in his rectum or something.

I am kinda interested in seeing the documents on this, I had some stuff I was theorizing similar to this a few months ago but a more interesting (to me) project came up and I am curious how he did it exactly etc. I have a feeling that this will probably have a fairly high amount of impurities though, and it almost certainly wont be energy efficient. But for that matter most oil drilling and refining isnt these days.

[QUOTE=mac338;37017597]The future of recycling?[/QUOTE] But we'll still affect CO2 levels... :| How 'bout electricity?

[QUOTE=GameAdict;37033040]But we'll still affect CO2 levels... :| How 'bout electricity?[/QUOTE] Yeah we'll just plug the car into the grid, powered by good, clean, coal fired.... oh wait...