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To: taxcontrol
"What is the cost efficiency and/or cost of final product?"

It will take a good engineering / feasibility study to answer that question. You'll need a couple of pilot plant designs (proof of concept and scale-up), then preliminary production plant design with good cost estimates of all of those. Then an analysis of the collection of the plastics from consumers and production plants and a cost estimate for that. Then life-cycle estimates for feedstocks, catalysts, maintenance, power, cooling water, waste disposal, etc.

I used to do that in a prior life for new power technologies. It's not a simple nor a cheap effort.

Of course, you can always start with a cocktail napkin at the local watering hole...


32 posted on 05/17/2021 3:19:27 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: ProtectOurFreedom

See my post 35.


36 posted on 05/17/2021 7:48:09 PM PDT by cpdiii (Texan Coonass Cane Cutter Deckhand Roughneck Geologist Pilot Phamacist. CONSTITUTION TO DIE FOR. )
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