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OKIsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 01:26 PM Original message |
Reaping Oil From Discarded Plastic |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 01:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. Thermal depolymerization has been around for a long time |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
2. I heard about something like this some ten years ago! |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 01:44 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. The patent was given back in 1939. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 01:57 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I think it's a wonderful prospect! When I first read about it, it captured my imagination. NT |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
4. Or you could drive a wood-burning car. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 02:02 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Wood pellet car burns way to speed record |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 02:06 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. You bet. They were big in Europe in the late 30s and during WWII. |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 02:12 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. North Koreans run them |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 02:25 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. It's a pretty clumsy way to run an internal combustion engine, and |
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OKIsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 06:08 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Nothing new under the Sun… |
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FBaggins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 06:22 PM Response to Original message |
11. Oil would have to go MUCH higher before this would make sense. |
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OKIsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-01-11 07:11 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. According to the article |
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