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Forum: General Talk
07-10-2018, 09:42 AM
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Oh, yeah, I was not thinking biodiesel or the corn/canola oils. I meant the {googling interval here} Thermal Depolymerization process and the pilot plant in Missourah by these guys: Changing World Technologies - Wikipedia
Yep, it is economics in control. And if there's money to be made, the politics will follow, methinks...
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Forum: General Talk
07-10-2018, 07:48 AM
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And there's already an industrial-scale process capable of taking waste products (literally, chicken guts, feathers, etc) and turning them back into petroleum hydrocarbons. I think the effort died off, but that was economics not technology. In years to come, when energy is cheaper than the increasingly scarce petroleum products, that will likely make it profitable to recreate our own new petrol rather than depend on extracting the dinosaur-era stuff Ma Nature provided...
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