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Invention Turns Plastic Waste into Home Energy – No Solar Panels Needed
- PaulHoule 2y agoIn upstate NY there is a huge controversy over "burn barrels". Some of my neighbors who some might call "rednecks" like burning plastic and other waste but I sure hate walking by when they do it. Companies like Exxon Mobil have a hard time convincing regulators that it is OK for them to burn plastic https://www.propublica.org/article/exxonmobil-plastics-recycling-pyrolysis-lawsuit-california https://www.propublica.org/article/exxonmobil-plastics-recyc... and other high tech solutions run into trouble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification Low-tech incineration of waste during the "Global War on Terror" is blamed for disabling complications in US Veterans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_pit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_pit
- blacksqr 2y ago"the prototype is still evolving."