The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that approximately 35 million tons of plastics are generated only in the United States, and 12.% of that becomes garbage as containers and plastic bags and even appliances.
Sorry friends, politicians in states like California who insist that they are recycling are lying to you, scientists know better. What really happens to plastic, even if your government sends it to China to be “recycled” is full and incineration. A new study Find that measuring the amount of carbon dioxide that would pump a potential chemical loop compared to conventional processes to produce synthesis gas could reduce emissions by up to 45.
Synthesis gas, a pyrolysis gas, is hydrogen and carbon monoxide derived from water and methane often produced with coal gasification, which requires high temperature, which means high energy. But because it uses CO2, its worrying emissions out of action while producing useful synthesis. And if it is more pure than 80% of sys generated now, the private sector will accept it.
Fuel waste: even environmental groups cannot hate that
Its fuel waste approach uses two reactors; A motion reducer where waste decomposes from metal oxide and combustion that replaces the oxygen used so that the material can regenerate. Purest syas with less CO2 is a victory. But it is new, and Western nations are trapped in a routine of demonizing science, from agriculture to responsible land management, all thanks to groups that wish to retire to the past.
The team believes that they can obtain syngas up to 90% pure, which can be a reasonable crossing point between cost and value. As Dr. James Hansen once said, all we need to stop climate change is that existing clean coal technology is used everywhere. On the other hand, we force developing nations to continue burning wood and manure in homes because we will not give them a loan for any centralized energy, except solar, all those outside the rich countries know that it still does not work.
It is still alone in ‘We can do it in a computer phase’, but the simulations estimate that Syngas could produce better than other chemical techniques, and it is worth investigating in a cultural environment of ‘Let’s try everything’. Unfortunately, we are now in the 15th of “doing what I want to do a mandate”, and there is no way of knowing if the Trump administration will separate from that tradition.
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