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Cleaning up or chemistry has been a losing race, you ban one chemical, they start using another two with yet unknown effects. Perhaps selectively extracting use
by rini17 2y ago
Cleaning up or chemistry has been a losing race, you ban one chemical, they start using another two with yet unknown effects. Perhaps selectively extracting useful stuff like phosphor and burning the rest would be better.
- PaulHoule 2y agoThere is this technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification which is related to the El Dorado technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolysis which is the renewables equivalent of the Fast Breeder Reactor. People will say "... but we had syngas plants all over the place" and I'll say that they made so much pollution that explains a huge confused spot of nothing near the downtown where I grew up and that there are periodic scares about the old syngas plant across the street from the elementary school that serves the black community in Ithaca.
- rini17 2y agoNothing is 100% safe. Incineration is still safer and less polluting than putting lightly processed sludge into the environment.
- PaulHoule 2y agoI'll argue that "cleaning up" could be more feasible than you think in the near future. There is serious rethinking about just about everything in organic chemistry synthesis lately and an understanding that the industry has to change dramatically. The PFAS crisis has made it clear that we can't keep playing whac-a-mole and there's going to be a transition to 'nanotechnology' solutions such as patterning surfaces for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhydrophobic_coating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhydrophobic_coating So I think 50 years from now we can have a much cleaner technology base overall.