Whoa, is Thermal Depolymerization the future? From this month’s Discover: Anything into Oil
“This plant will make 10 tons of gas per day, which will go back into the system to make heat to power the system,” he says. “It will make 21,000 gallons of water, which will be clean enough to discharge into a municipal sewage system. Pathological vectors will be completely gone. It will make 11 tons of minerals and 600 barrels of oil, high-quality stuff, the same specs as a number two heating oil.” He shakes his head almost as if he can’t believe it. “It’s amazing. The Environmental Protection Agency doesn’t even consider us waste handlers. We are actually manufacturers—that’s what our permit says. This process changes the whole industrial equation. Waste goes from a cost to a profit.”