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In china, its common to cook with "gutter oil" which is sewage, filtered and refined. Humans are amazing.
How do people ever consume that without immediately getting sick?
I am dubious of the photos that show coloured plastics turning into clear oil. Does this process really break down all the many types of dyes?
I'm also curious that the liquid is clear, though, because you'd think this thing creates a soup of organic chemicals each with different color responses.
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would you cook your dinner with gasoline?
In china, its common to cook with "gutter oil" which is sewage, filtered and refined. Humans are amazing.
400g plastic becomes 286g of oil (less than 75%), what is the 80% in reference to?
I am no expert, and so I have the question actually. How do we use that oil in reality?
It is written in one of the pages - "As you look into the data you can understand our machine can produce high grade oil mixture of gasoline, kerosene, diesel oil and little heavy oil. The oil can be used as recycled fuel for electric power generator without refining" I am no expert, and so I have the question actually. How do we use that oil in reality?
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How do people ever consume that without immediately getting sick?
I think people here are confusing "cook with" to mean either "the fuel source to cook" or "the oil in the pan to aid in cooking".
Great, another reason I'm pissed off about plastic recycling! I've been collecting my plastic for as long as I can remember and recycling it, then they tell us only about 12% has EVER been recycled. Now we can break it down to get the oil back! A$$holes!
Btw anyone who has even a cursory understanding of polymer physics suspected that plastics recycling was a scam. The whole scheme was either to greenwash industry throwing the moral responsibility to the end users or to condition us to recycle when they finally figured out how to do it.
For what it's worth, extracting energy out of plastic is probably best way to deal with it.
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Maybe the machinery takes 3 hours to spool up to generating 1kW?
No, it gradually increases its consumption at a rate of 1 kW every hour, thus at the 3-hour mark it's consuming 3 kW.
So what is wrong with this? I am assuming it only takes soft plastic but still why we don't see widespread use of it.
I'm guessing the answer is, "Because you can already burn the plastic directly." Presumably burning this oil would have the same levels of pollution as burning the plastic in the first place, but also takes extra energy to produce.