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Sure, you just need to make sure that wherever it's being burned isn't just sending the byproducts into the air, because when you burn plastic, you get a lot of
by voidUpdate 1y ago
Sure, you just need to make sure that wherever it's being burned isn't just sending the byproducts into the air, because when you burn plastic, you get a lot of crap coming off it from incomplete combustion which isn't particularly healthy
- meindnoch 1y agoThat's not true when burning in a power plant. Incomplete combustion is caused by insufficient airflow.
- esseph 1y agoI hope you have excellent regulations and unyielding oversight with strict fines from the government level to maintain accountability and keep it that way, otherwise... optimizing for cost.
- meindnoch 1y agoA powerplant is optimizing for producing the most energy from their feedstock. Incomplete combustion means they would be throwing out usable energy, that they could earn money from.
- Retric 1y agoOnly up to a point, there’s always a tradeoff which limits economic efficiency below theoretical limits.
- bayindirh 1y agoComplete burn is not guaranteed to be 100% clean. If you don't filter coal plants you get all the nasty up in the air. If you could burn something at a level you don't need exhaust filters, and that even doesn't clean up all the harmful particles, we'd be building coal plants everywhere, rendering PV and renewables (and even nuclear) research unnecessary.
- esseph 1y agoThis is very pie in the skyish. If only humans operated as you suggest.
- IAmBroom 1y agoYou throw out usable energy every time you fill your car's tank - unless you shake the handle vigorously and wait several seconds to make sure every last drop made it into your tank. Likewise, power plants won't spend inordinate amounts of effort to get every last drop burned.
- voidUpdate 1y agoEven with complete combustion, the byproducts are CO2 and H2O. And power plants won't get extra profit from dealing with the CO2
- littlestymaar 1y ago> Incomplete combustion is caused by insufficient airflow. In fact it's often due to insufficient temperature, that can be caused by excessive airflow. But that's right that a power plants (in a country with good enough environmental regulation) shouldn't have this kind of problem.
- Ekaros 1y agoAlso post-processing any exhaust is much simpler when you have large enough scale. And incinerator powerplants can get to that point.
- tokai 1y agoThats a solved issue.