new fuel source. plastic??

[gremlin]

this is some tech i can support. the only thing i would do to is is remove the filter that converts methane, ethane, propane and butane gasses to co2, i would compress that and use it in the heater in the winter time. large citys could use this and run every thing cheeper.

http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/Direct ... k_into_oil

New Energy Congress member, Sepp Hasslberger, just informed me about a very cool technology out of Japan called the "Blest Machine" by inventor, Akinori Ito. It converts certain plastics into oil, and it is presently commercially available in sizes ranging from a batch processing, tabletop version for home or experimental use; to larger continuous feed versions for small industrial use.

Basically, you can put plastic items, as they are, into the hopper, and a few minutes later you have the oil from which the plastics were made in the first place.

Two pounds of plastic fed to the machine gets you a quart of oil. In metric, one kilogram of plastic produces almost one liter of oil. To convert that amount takes about 1 kilowatt-hour of electricity, which is approximately ¥20 or 20 cents worth.

Blest claims that if the proper materials are fed into the machine (i.e., polyethylene, polystyrene and polypropylene — PP, PE, PS plastics [numbers 2-4]), there is no toxic substance produced, and any residue can be disposed of with regular burnable garbage. PET bottles (number 1) should not be run through their machine. They also explain that while methane, ethane, propane and butane gasses are released in the process, the machine is equipped with an off-gas filter that disintegrates these gases into water and carbon. [1]