.: toi aussi, fabrique ton diesel avec ton micro-ondes

Topic The End of the World (By Cif!, Thursday 28 June 2007 @13:25) Contribution de tobozo

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A US company (Global Resource Corporation) is taking plastics recycling to another level – turning them back into the oil they were made from, and gas.

All that is needed, is a finely tuned microwave and a mix of materials that were made from oil can be reduced back to oil and combustible gas [..] The machine is called the Hawk-10. Its smaller incarnations look just like an industrial microwave with bits of machinery attached to it. Larger versions resemble a concrete mixer [..]

Similarly, running 9.1 kilograms of ground-up tyres through the Hawk-10 produces 4.54 litres of diesel oil, 1.42 cubic metres of combustible gas, 1 kg of steel and 3.40 kg of carbon black

A scrap metal company has just said it will be the first to buy a Hawk-10. Gershow collects metal products, by recycling old cars, but for every ton of steel they recover, between 226 kg and 318 kg of “autofluff” is produced.

Autofluff is the stuff that is left over after a car has been shredded and the steel extracted. It contains plastics, rubber, wood, paper, fabrics, glass, sand, dirt, and various bits of metal. The Hawk-10 could extract enough oil and gas from the left-over fluff to run the Hawk-10 itself and a number of other machines used by the Gershow.
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