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1 posted on 05/17/2021 1:00:46 PM PDT by Red Badger
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Diesel Knock List!........................


2 posted on 05/17/2021 1:04:43 PM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Is this a relative to “turkey guts to oil” from waaaaaaay back (Nov 25, 2008)?

https://www.discovermagazine.com/environment/go-green-this-thanksgiving-turn-turkey-guts-into-oil


3 posted on 05/17/2021 1:05:22 PM PDT by Little Ray (Corporations don't pay taxes. They collect them.)
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To: Red Badger

This will fire up the chemtrails kooks.


4 posted on 05/17/2021 1:05:43 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: Red Badger

In a lab, maybe.

But as a practical application, (i.e. plastic into jet fuel, not requiring much more energy input as you get in return) I call BS.


6 posted on 05/17/2021 1:22:13 PM PDT by Jotmo (Whoever said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." has clearly never been stabbed to death.)
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To: Red Badger

How will the green kooks respond?
1. Recycling plastic — VERY good.
2. Making hydrocarbon fuel — VERY bad.


7 posted on 05/17/2021 1:23:27 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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To: Red Badger

mr. robinson was right... plastics.

what are the chances these students won’t turn this over to the chinese communists?


10 posted on 05/17/2021 1:35:12 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something)
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To: Red Badger

Go Cougs!


11 posted on 05/17/2021 1:36:05 PM PDT by llevrok (I'm old enough to remember when the quarantine was to be 2 weeks)
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To: Red Badger

Nice


12 posted on 05/17/2021 1:36:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Red Badger

If you are going to burn the plastic anyway as jet fuel, you might as well burn it in furnaces, use anti pollution smokestack technology and save the cost of liquefying the plastic. The amount of carbon dioxide released will be about the same and maybe even less with modern capturing techniques.


13 posted on 05/17/2021 1:36:47 PM PDT by allendale
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To: Red Badger

Safe to say that China got this last month?

/s


17 posted on 05/17/2021 1:45:06 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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“Led by graduate student Chuhua Jia and Hongfei Lin, associate professor...”

American ingenuity at work!


20 posted on 05/17/2021 1:56:06 PM PDT by aquila48 (o not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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Does it also turn rust into undercoating?


21 posted on 05/17/2021 1:57:54 PM PDT by sonova (That's what I always say sometimes.)
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To: Red Badger

Take those ships that are going after all the garbage in the Pacific and convert them into manufacturing platforms.


23 posted on 05/17/2021 2:03:17 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Keep the Faith. Everything happens for a reason.)
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To: Red Badger
and to easily fine-tune the process to create the products that they want.

This line is intriguing. I've been watching as the technology for plastics pyrolysis improves, I even tried to order a small pyrolysis machine once that was designed for home use. There's a lot of potential in that field. Even more so if you can adjust the settings for exactly what you want out of it.

I vaguely recall something about the same process being used to turn low-grade crude into a lighter, higher grade of crude. Definitely useful.
24 posted on 05/17/2021 2:15:28 PM PDT by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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To: Red Badger

Carbon to carbon. Sounds far fetched to me.


26 posted on 05/17/2021 2:17:35 PM PDT by Starstruck ( Since I'm old I don't whether I'm senile or brilliant. Or happily both.)
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To: Red Badger

Decades ago there was a giant pile of used tires in a mountain hollow outside of of Winchester Virginia that was set on fire by a lighting strike. The fire was under the pile and as it burnt it created oil that gathered in the bottom of the hollow and flowed out in such amounts that a dam was built to catch it.


27 posted on 05/17/2021 2:36:05 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Red Badger
Pyrolysis of plastics to liquid and gaseous fuels has been worked for a while. The most interesting processes throw together mixed plastics (polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP) polystyrene (PS), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET)).

I read last year that two plants would be built in the US. I haven't looked into it since.

33 posted on 05/17/2021 4:02:27 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Red Badger

what happened to putting it in roadways?


34 posted on 05/17/2021 5:31:09 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Red Badger

How much energy (cost of) is needed to drive this process? If energy positive net game this is good. If not it is just liberal mental chemical masturbation.

I can make any hydrocarbon (plastics, garbage, oil etc.) into anything I want. The real question is it a net gain or loss in energy and is it a cost effective synthesis.

Political correctness will never defeat thermodynamics and entropy which are actually one and the same. Entropy always wins until the universe runs backwards. It does not.


35 posted on 05/17/2021 7:25:32 PM PDT by cpdiii (Texan Coonass Cane Cutter Deckhand Roughneck Geologist Pilot Phamacist. CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR. )
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Ruthenium occurs with other members of the platinum group of metals in the Ural mountains (Russia) and in North and South America. It is also found in the Sudbury, Ontario nickel-mining region and in the pyroxenite deposits of South Africa. Ruthenium may also be extracted from radioactive waste.
49 posted on 05/18/2021 7:06:55 AM PDT by ecomcon
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