world's fuel and garbage problem solved all at once

[dolph]

if it takes off, this is going to change the world
pretty cool

 

[NewSc2]

reposted a couple weeks ago, still cool nonetheless

 

[Eli]

It's a repost..

But that's not a bad thing! This deserves as much attention as it can get.

 

[amdskip]

Dang, thats pretty freakin cool. That article is extremely interesting, hope it all works as planed for him.

 

[erikiksaz]

Hopefully things go well

 

[Lithium381]

Originally posted by: amdskip
Dang, thats pretty freakin cool. That article is extremely interesting, hope it all works as planed for him.

me too! heck, start shoveling moon rock into this thing and make a plant up there.....bam energy AND water instantly on the moon!

 

[ElFenix]

the internal combustion engine will never die! we'll never be out of oil! we'll have all the oil and turkey we need!

 

[FrustratedUser]

Looks great. Kudos to them.
I am gonna go out and buy me a Hemi.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
Looks great. Kudos to them.
I am gonna go out and buy me a Hemi.

Forget the Hemi, buy stock in the company!

Then you will be able to buy many Hemi's.

 

[chrisms]

Quite amazing to see a machine that has the potential to fix many of America's major problems.. oil, garbage, and economy.

 

[rgwalt]

Originally posted by: Lithium381

Originally posted by: amdskip
Dang, thats pretty freakin cool. That article is extremely interesting, hope it all works as planed for him.

me too! heck, start shoveling moon rock into this thing and make a plant up there.....bam energy AND water instantly on the moon!

Well, the stuff they put in the machine has to contain carbon, so moon rock won't produce any energy. However, this process really does have potential. It isn't a new idea though... All this process does is take one form of hydrocarbon and turn it into another. We've been doing that for years now. What is novel is that they've developed a method of doing the reaction in a much more cost effective manor. Instead of removing the water from the hydrocarbon via boiling, they use heat and pressure to break the phase boundry and break down the complex hydrocarbons into simple ones. They lower the pressure, most of the water flashes off, and the remaining hydrocarbons are further cracked catalytically and then separated, which is very similar to what happens in an oil refinary.

In all honesty, I think that this technology has a lot of potential if they can get the cost down. $10 per barrel is a good price for oil. I doubt it will completely remove our dependence on fossil fuels, but it certainly will help. Maybe companies will start paying us to recycle newspaper and plastic bottles, like aluminum cans.

Ryan

 

[ThaGrandCow]

I'll say it again from last weeks comment:

This technology (if it turns out to be not just an illusion) is going to change the world. Imagine the entire world independent of the few countries oil supplies. Immagine each country able to make all of it's necessary fuel. Imagin a world where there aren't wars based on taking another countries oil supplies for their own. Imagine a world where world peace is much, MUCH more of a possibility.

The only thing left is food for all and we've reached utopia.

 

[AnyMal]

Very cool indeed.. If you think about it, any organic matter can be broken down and recycled. Wonder if someday, people will donate their bodies to some "recycle effort"

 

[So]

Originally posted by: NewSc2
reposted a couple weeks ago, still cool nonetheless

Saw it a few weeks ago, but if anyone missed it, now is as good of a time as any.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: chrisms
Quite amazing to see a machine that has the potential to fix many of America's major problems.. oil, garbage, and economy.

That just about covers them.

 

[MadRat]

Can they use the same process to get oil out of shale rock?

btw - Isn't $15/barrel for light oil kind of a ripoff? It seems like light oil has low energy content whereas heavy oils form pretty large amounts of lighter oils.

 

[iwearnosox]

I'm working on a nef powered molecular depolymerization system. I've got it attached to ATOT right now and I get about three barrels of light sweet crude a day.

 

[m2kewl]

sweeet!! now they just need to put one in Staten Island!!

this is the next best thing to a fusion reactor.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: MadRat
Can they use the same process to get oil out of shale rock?

btw - Isn't $15/barrel for light oil kind of a ripoff? It seems like light oil has low energy content whereas heavy oils form pretty large amounts of lighter oils.

Yes, they can use the technology to extract usable fuel from many sources.. not just biomatter.

15$/barrel is just their beginning price..