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I've become intrigued recently by this technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification and its p
by dchuk 10y ago
I've become intrigued recently by this technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification and its potential applications in the energy/cleantech space. From what I can tell, at least in the US, people equate it to "burning trash" and frown upon it, but it seems like a great technology space we should be investing more into because no matter what we do, we will always have trash to process/deal with.
It would be cool to see some startups attack this space. But maybe it's a high cost of entry space to work in which deters startups?
- lutorm 10y agoThe argument I've heard against "burning trash" isn't that it's unclean or anything but that, to the extent stuff in trash is made from oil, still amounts to burning hydrocarbons. From an energy yield perspective, my impression is that it's more favorable to e.g. compost organic matter and recycle plastics.