The End of Global Warming, The end of Middle East Oil
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 4:18 pm
If anyone gets discovery magazine, this month they have a great article on Depolymerization. Basically a plant in Philadelphia has been successfully turning waste into oil, minerals, water, gas and carbon.
So you take computer parts, refrigerators, and spare tires and out comes 40 weight oil. Its based on how the earth naturally makes oil from pressure and heat. A new plant is being launched this year. A full scale Depolymerization plant. If it takes off we would no longer need to pump oil from the ground which means that we would be recycling the amount of carbon in the air instead of adding to it which would reduce global warming. It appears to have all the advantages, even economic ones. Its worth a read. Here are some other articles about it.
http://www.changingworldtech.com/news.html
http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/projects/stewardship/turkey120402.html
more stats per 100 lbs of:
plastic bottles = 70 lbs oil, 16 lbs gas, 6 lbs carbon solids, 8 lbs water
municipal liquid waste (75% sewage, 25% grease trap) = 26 lbs oil, 9 lbs gas, 8 lbs mineral, 57 lbs water
mixed tires = 44 lbs oil, 10 lbs gas, 42 lbs mineral, 4 lbs water
medical waste (transfusion bags, needles and razor blades and wet human waste) = 65 lbs oil, 10 lbs gas, 5 lbs mineral/metal, 20 lbs water
So you take computer parts, refrigerators, and spare tires and out comes 40 weight oil. Its based on how the earth naturally makes oil from pressure and heat. A new plant is being launched this year. A full scale Depolymerization plant. If it takes off we would no longer need to pump oil from the ground which means that we would be recycling the amount of carbon in the air instead of adding to it which would reduce global warming. It appears to have all the advantages, even economic ones. Its worth a read. Here are some other articles about it.
http://www.changingworldtech.com/news.html
http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/projects/stewardship/turkey120402.html
more stats per 100 lbs of:
plastic bottles = 70 lbs oil, 16 lbs gas, 6 lbs carbon solids, 8 lbs water
municipal liquid waste (75% sewage, 25% grease trap) = 26 lbs oil, 9 lbs gas, 8 lbs mineral, 57 lbs water
mixed tires = 44 lbs oil, 10 lbs gas, 42 lbs mineral, 4 lbs water
medical waste (transfusion bags, needles and razor blades and wet human waste) = 65 lbs oil, 10 lbs gas, 5 lbs mineral/metal, 20 lbs water