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To Cool! Japanese Firm Builds Small Machine that Converts Plastic Back Into Oil

 
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To Cool! Japanese Firm Builds Small Machine that Converts Plastic Back Into Oil
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Blest’s conversion technology is very safe because it uses a temperature controlling electric heater rather than flame. The machines are able to process polyethylene, polystyrene and polypropylene (numbers 2-4) but not PET bottles (number 1). The result is a crude gas that can fuel things like generators or stoves and, when refined, can even be pumped into a car, a boat or motorbike. One kilogram of plastic produces almost one liter of oil. To convert that amount takes about 1 kilowatt of electricity, which is approximately ¥20 or 20 cents’ worth.

The company makes the machines in various sizes and has 60 in place at farms, fisheries and small factories in Japan and several abroad.

“To make a machine that anyone can use is my dream,” Ito says. “The home is the oil field of the future.”

Perhaps that statement is not as crazy as it sounds, since the makeup of Japanese household waste has been found to contain over 30 % plastic, most of it from packaging.
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sounds like a good idea, perhaps it should be done on a local gas-station level where people could take their plastics and receive either fuel or cash.
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Oil companies may not like that idea...


Like find plans to build one myself tho..
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This must have got bought out like the 100mpg carburetor
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So basically it uses more energy to process back into less energy....brilliant!!
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Only "drawback" only work on polymers that do NOT have oxygen in the molecule: polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene.

Is done in a closed reactor in a neutral atmosphere (no oxygen can be present). Its a pyrolytic depolymerization basically. Heat break big molecules in shorter ones, making some similar to diesel/heating oil.

The PET plastic, the most used one, gives a mess because of the oxygen atom in the molecule. So can not be used...

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Thank you for this post. Over the years I came to realize that until we address our plastics problem, no one is really serious about improving our earthly environmental problems. It's about time!
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So basically it uses more energy to process back into less energy....brilliant!!
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My solar panels alone create enough electricity to run this machine and I could use the gas it creates to drive my car or bike.

That's amazing.
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"Never underestimate the pain of a person. In all honesty, everyone is struggling. Just some people are better at hiding it than others."

Everyone has to work out their own salvation.

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So basically it uses more energy to process back into less energy....brilliant!!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75679511


My solar panels alone create enough electricity to run this machine and I could use the gas it creates to drive my car or bike.

That's amazing.
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The only net positive consumer systems are geothermal and nuclear.
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Then back to plastic ...

What about plastic to graphite or lava stone or some new or other substance... maybe a metal - ferromagnetic stone ? ... or some new stronger than metal glass etc.

:)
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So basically it uses more energy to process back into less energy....brilliant!!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75679511


My solar panels alone create enough electricity to run this machine and I could use the gas it creates to drive my car or bike.

That's amazing.
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There ya go.

I like how someone can put an idea out there on the interweb and other people can jump in the help make the original idea better.

Billions of ordinary average Joe type people using the internet to share ideas that could potentially change the world for the better.

I bet some people might find that to be a very scary idea.
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They had better patent it quick, else Rothschild stooges will crawl out the paintwork and claim it as theirs.
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By now, these machines should be worldwide and located in every community but no...

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TOO!


FUCKING TOO!!
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You do realize, that plastics are made directly from oil, dontcha?
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THAT'S ANTISEMITIC!!!!!
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you are what you drink out of!
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Let's hope the roff schyldes don't get their hands on the rights to the patent, it is all about profits with them, and not the betterment of the people or planet.
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Blest’s conversion technology is very safe because it uses a temperature controlling electric heater rather than flame. The machines are able to process polyethylene, polystyrene and polypropylene (numbers 2-4) but not PET bottles (number 1). The result is a crude gas that can fuel things like generators or stoves and, when refined, can even be pumped into a car, a boat or motorbike. One kilogram of plastic produces almost one liter of oil. To convert that amount takes about 1 kilowatt of electricity, which is approximately ¥20 or 20 cents’ worth.

The company makes the machines in various sizes and has 60 in place at farms, fisheries and small factories in Japan and several abroad.

“To make a machine that anyone can use is my dream,” Ito says. “The home is the oil field of the future.”

Perhaps that statement is not as crazy as it sounds, since the makeup of Japanese household waste has been found to contain over 30 % plastic, most of it from packaging.
 Quoting: Franktastic


We've had videos on GLP at least 10 years ago showing how to return plastic to oil. it's really simple.

If you build one big enough to take tires, you get a bunch of steel, a bunch of carbon black, and oil. IIRC, a couple of gallons of oil per tire. Now that is the way to recycle old tires.
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If someone had a brain, they would build trawlers equipped to break the plastic down and trawl in the N. pacific where they have so much plastic in the water.
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Let's hope the roff schyldes don't get their hands on the rights to the patent, it is all about profits with them, and not the betterment of the people or planet.
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I wonder what the roffs call the great unwashed masses? Muggles?
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So basically it uses more energy to process back into less energy....brilliant!!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75679511


Think in terms of economics. One can use the oil that is reclaimed to run the heater to melt more plastic. It pays for it's own operation.
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Oil companies may not like that idea...


Like find plans to build one myself tho..
 Quoting: Franktastic


All you have to do is build an air-tight chamber that can be heated. You heat the plastic without oxygen and the gas driven off
is cooled and is oil.
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That story is 12 years old, and nothing had come of this "invention". Stop posting bullsh#t.
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It's fake news.
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[link to ourworld.unu.edu]



Blest’s conversion technology is very safe because it uses a temperature controlling electric heater rather than flame. The machines are able to process polyethylene, polystyrene and polypropylene (numbers 2-4) but not PET bottles (number 1). The result is a crude gas that can fuel things like generators or stoves and, when refined, can even be pumped into a car, a boat or motorbike. One kilogram of plastic produces almost one liter of oil. To convert that amount takes about 1 kilowatt of electricity, which is approximately ¥20 or 20 cents’ worth.

The company makes the machines in various sizes and has 60 in place at farms, fisheries and small factories in Japan and several abroad.

“To make a machine that anyone can use is my dream,” Ito says. “The home is the oil field of the future.”

Perhaps that statement is not as crazy as it sounds, since the makeup of Japanese household waste has been found to contain over 30 % plastic, most of it from packaging.
 Quoting: Franktastic


This isn't new. People have been doing this kind of thing for over a decade, even on youtube you can find ways to do it.

Cool post though, but this company isn't the first.
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