Plastic Oil

Wayco Wayne_2

an article about a group of Scientists out in CA who have come up with a procedure for changing recycled polyethylene plastic back into a synthetic oil that can be used for lubrication purposes. Nice, since plastics are made from oil in the first place. We need more inovations like this. (a lot more) Be sure to recycle those plastics, boys and girls. :D WW

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Ken D.

Plastic

That would be nice. Now if only they could make gasoline from plastics.

Wayco Wayne_2

I wonder

how much oil it took to make the plastic, and how much oil they get back out of the process. Another question...How are they going to make PEX tubing when we run out of oil?? Perhaps go back to Watts/Heatway rubber. Hows our rubber supply? WW

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Joe Brix

it always comes down to production cost

Everyone has the technology to make oil from plastics or bio-mass. Same with ethanol and hydrogen. Problem is if you need too much energy to make the fuel, what have you gained?

Wayco Wayne_2

True dat

but with the remaining oil in the Earth it will soon be too expensive to get to it and bring it up. Right now it costs 1 dollar for every 2 dollars worth they bring up. Recycling isn't a fix, it's just giving us more time before the inevitable while our scientists try to find better solutions. (sell your Hummer for God's sake! Ahhhh!) WW

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Dave Yates (PAH)

an article

I read recently detailed a plant in Philly that was using animal carcases (left over from food processing - turkey remains mostly) to render into usable oil. The only problem? Takes more energy to produce than you get from the "new" oil. A net-negative energy source.

Same goes for hydrogen unless you produce it with solar energy.

Hybrid cars? If you gotta plug em in to recharge, they're nothing more than a car that pollutes elsewhere.

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Wayco Wayne_2

There ain't nothing

as good as oil. Makes me sad we don't have an unlimited supply. I'm going down to visit the Solar decathlon, in Washington DC from Oct 7 through the 16, to look at the inovations some universitys are coming up with for houses.

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