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1 posted on 06/26/2007 2:48:26 PM PDT by blam
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I look forward to the demonstration project. Necessity truly is the mother of invention.


2 posted on 06/26/2007 2:50:51 PM PDT by sono (Elizabeth Edwards supports Same-Sex marriage. Appropriate since many feel she's already in one.)
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My uncle saw this demonstrated. It's a kind of plasma laser, actually. Empty out the landfills, turn it into oil and gas.

Cool stuff. Kinda Back to the Future 2-ish, eh?

Suck it, OPEC!

3 posted on 06/26/2007 2:51:25 PM PDT by mbraynard
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There's another gizmo that takes everything put into it (mostly garbage and trash), turns into a plasma-mode and reduces it to nothing at all. (A little ash). It was in a recent Popular Science magazine.
4 posted on 06/26/2007 2:55:02 PM PDT by Does so
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Now we’ll have to have studies, grants, focus-group-tested slogans, CONgressional panels, lobbying efforts, outsourcing to Bangladesh, global warming protests, global cooling to counter the global warming...

We MIGHT see practical application of this technology when Chelsea’s cloned daughter receives her lifetime SCOTUS appointment.


8 posted on 06/26/2007 2:56:31 PM PDT by Old Sarge (This tagline in memory of FReeper 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub)
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This is interesting and much more useful than my microwave that excels in turning popcorn into carbon. If the government would give me huge subsidies for doing it, I’d be singing a different tune...


9 posted on 06/26/2007 2:56:46 PM PDT by philled (The Democrat's 'new vision' for Iraq looks a lot like Pol Pot wearing a turban...)
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If they have one rated for home use, I’d buy one!


10 posted on 06/26/2007 2:58:19 PM PDT by Graymatter (New legislators. No new laws. ... Let's clean house. And senate.)
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What is conveniently not mentioned, is that it takes more energy to break these materials down than the usable energy recovered. Now, if these recovered base materals can then be reused to reform new plastics cheaper than it costs to make them from scratch, it may be a worthwhile recycling method which will then reduce oil demands. There are a awfull lot of plastic car parts that could be made into new plastic car parts.
11 posted on 06/26/2007 2:59:30 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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No way. All I got was a house full of smoke and a blob of molten plastic goo.

Hmmm. Fire Department is at the front door, BBL....

13 posted on 06/26/2007 3:03:10 PM PDT by GoldCountryRedneck ("Flying is like Life: Know where you are, where you're going, and how to get there." - 'Ol Dad)
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I would suggest the first major, huge...or is that hugh?.. trial be done on Congress.

Melt them down.


15 posted on 06/26/2007 3:06:03 PM PDT by dforest (Fighting the new liberal Conservatism. The Left foot in the GOP door.)
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""Take a piece of copper wiring," says Meddick. "It is encased in plastic – a kind of hydrocarbon material. We release all the hydrocarbons, which strips the casing off the wire." Not only does the process produce fuel in the form of oil and gas, it also makes it easier to extract the copper wire for recycling."

I bet he hasn't actually TRIED this yet. Maybe he should stick a spoon in his fancy microwave and see what happens first...

16 posted on 06/26/2007 3:09:01 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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All Washington wants to know...Can it be Taxed?


19 posted on 06/26/2007 3:15:18 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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http://www.globalresourcecorp.com/

Welcome to Global Resource Corporation

Global Resource Corporation is a Worldwide Petroleum Research, Engineering, Development, and Manufacturing Company that thinks outside the box and is responsible for bringing innovation and new technologies to the petrochemical industries where we offer many proprietary solutions in Enhanced Oil & Energy Recovery Processes.

Click on any of the sections below to learn more about our unique energy recovery applications.

Process explained by GRC’s Chief Engineer and why our innovative patent pending technologies are different from any and all others.

To everything there is a frequency that excites its molecules best. Just like the 2450MHz frequency magnetron in your kitchen microwave oven which is specific to water (H2O) molecules, GRC’s hydrocarbon specific frequencies are generated by much higher RF klystrons that actually crack the hydrocarbon chain into its characteristic fuels.

By definition it is not pyrolysis because cracking the hydrocarbon chain is inherent to specific frequencies and has little to do with the amount of heat generated. The process however is done without water and performed in an oxygen starved environment. We call this technology: High-Frequency Attenuating Wave Kinetics or HAWK for short.

There is also no CO2 or CO produced in the process because there is no oxidation other than possibly a miniscule amount that may be pre-existing in the material or minerals processed. GRC’s vacuum environment creates an accelerated pressure thereby assimilating what Mother Nature has done through countless years to make fuels.

The two basic elements offered for all GRC’s applications are insitu and offsitu. We have designed klystron machinery for gasifying hydrocarbons where they exist or in fabricated systems. In-situ meaning processed deep in the ground, rock formations or anywhere naturally occurring and off-situ meaning processed above ground that is mined or material removed from site.

A klystron is a microwave electron tube with velocity modulation that is different from magnetrons. Its uses were privy to military applications for radar jamming before stealth technologies became more dominant in later years. GRC is the first to commercialize this technology and by modifying amplifiers and power supplies to suit our applications, we now possess the technology that will free America from foreign oil imports


20 posted on 06/26/2007 3:15:29 PM PDT by syriacus (If the US troops had remained in S. Korea in 1949, there would have been no Korean War (1950-53).)
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If they microwaved the immigration bill, would it turn back into sh**? Oh, that’s right. That’s what it is in its present condition.


21 posted on 06/26/2007 3:19:38 PM PDT by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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Reminiscent of the "Anything Into Oil" story that came out four years ago, looked spectacularly promising, and has apparently gone nowhere.
25 posted on 06/26/2007 3:32:58 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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"Anything that has a hydrocarbon base will be affected by our process"

Dude! Peoples are hydrocarbon.... and soylent green is people

26 posted on 06/26/2007 3:38:40 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (An unending supply of the elderly, a microwave and !Voila! Energy independence.)
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The first thing I’m thinking is “weaponize it”.

The second thing is, the article says anything with a hydrocarbon base can be fed into the machine. Does this go for... say, maybe... vegetable matter?


27 posted on 06/26/2007 3:51:00 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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And exactly how much energy does it take to make a gallon of oil this way?


29 posted on 06/26/2007 3:57:23 PM PDT by BuffaloJack
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How many gigawatts does it require? The Chinese also have a solution, they just throw everything into their furnace burners.


33 posted on 06/26/2007 4:25:24 PM PDT by fso301
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Giant Microwave Turns Plastic Back To Oil

Mayor Rocky Anderson, Mayor Gavin Newsom & Bloomberg need to read this!

Salt Lake mayor calls for bottled water ban
12/15/2006 2:17:29 PM
SALT LAKE CITY — Mayor Rocky Anderson has asked the city staff of 400 to stop buying and drinking bottled water for public meetings and office events and to use tap water instead, according to a December 15 story from the Salt Lake Tribune.

Anderson told city department heads in a memo that the manufacturing of plastic water bottles consume over 10 million barrels of oil year and 80 percent of the bottles end up in landfills, the article said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855170/posts


35 posted on 06/26/2007 4:40:26 PM PDT by restornu (Whatever time we have is being paid for with our life!)
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What if you stuck Jerry Lewis’s head in this thing?


40 posted on 06/26/2007 7:18:23 PM PDT by Krankor (kROGER)
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