- Bloody Harry ( @harry315@feddit.de ) 19•4 months ago
TL;DR: Pyrolysis with a yield of 60 percent styrene monomers.
- Dymonika ( @Dymonika@beehaw.org ) 9•4 months ago
So what does that mean?
- Bloody Harry ( @harry315@feddit.de ) 11•4 months ago
ELI5: They can now make the fluffy white plastic go back to liquid very well, and they don’t even need too much work for that.
- Dymonika ( @Dymonika@beehaw.org ) 4•4 months ago
Woohoo!
- Aussiemandeus ( @Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone ) 12•4 months ago
Just mix it with petrol and then you have sticky flammable substance to do with what you will
- moosetwin ( @moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•4 months ago
- deegeese ( @deegeese@sopuli.xyz ) 11•4 months ago
10Mj/kg = 2.7kWh/kg
Not bad efficiency.
- Tramort ( @Tramort@programming.dev ) 10•4 months ago
The problem is how low the density is.
Sure: per kilogram it looks ok, but that one kilogram took up an entire train car to move around.
- a1studmuffin ( @a1studmuffin@aussie.zone ) English7•4 months ago
And imagine being the guy who’s got to clean out the train car afterwards of all the tiny pieces. Nightmare fuel.
- nomad ( @Nomad@infosec.pub ) 1•4 months ago
In situ processing should solve that. Imagine a machine where you put that in, it gets crushed and sprayed and the liquid is transported and recycled.
- PowerCrazy ( @PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml ) English11•4 months ago
Maybe we could just stop making plastic of all kinds. Reduce Reuse Recycle. Recycling is literally the last resort, we don’t need most of our plastic stuff today.
- grrgyle ( @grrgyle@slrpnk.net ) 10•4 months ago
Just outlaw it already. It was a bad idea
- Gsus4 ( @Gsus4@mander.xyz ) 2•4 months ago
why is this better than just icinerating it for baseload power? That is the only truly safe way to dispose of plastic, plus pyrolisis adds an extra step, which costs more energy.