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Who cares? Burn the plastic trash! You get the plastic item use out of it, and you get almost all the energy from it as if you had burned the oil directly.
by henrikschroder 6y ago
Who cares? Burn the plastic trash!
You get the plastic item use out of it, and you get almost all the energy from it as if you had burned the oil directly.
- noizejoy 6y agoI think that will require a large number of new technologies to make such burning environmentally sustainable and cost competitive with other energy producing technologies. I don’t have enough science, engineering, or economic knowledge to even take a wild guess at the feasibility of such technology. Maybe that would be a better challenge for Mr. Musk and various other privateers and governments than running away to Mars to escape the mess we’re making of our own planet.
- henrikschroder 6y agoPlenty of countries have excellent trash burning plants already, all the technology exists. You only need to compete with peak oil burner plants, not the entire power producing chain. Same co2 emissions, a bit less electricity, but the trash doesn't go on horrible polluting landfills. Win-win.
- macinjosh 6y agoModern landfills don’t pollute.
- pfdietz 6y agoTrash can act as an energy store, to produce power during times when solar and wind production are low. If the plastics were ultimately produced from non-fossil carbon (as paper/cardboard are), what's the problem with this?
- regularfry 6y agoAnd the CO2 ends up in the atmosphere, rather than getting sequestered in the ground...