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frdsfctt
2y ago
Plastic recycling is a scam - see DeGennes or Florry-Huggins. But there is no need to give up. As long as we can keep brominated, chlorinated and fluorinated plastics out of the input stream (by taxes and deposits) burning plastic for energ
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frdsfctt
2y ago
Thermodynamically combustion of pyrolysis products does not, cannot, use more energy than it produces. If it did, plastic would not burn. Plastic burns, hence pyrolysis is a net energy source. [1] That's not to say it makes sense. Myse