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>tons of pollutants into the air
Besides the wood (co2 is a meme anyways), the process of pyrolysis itself heats the object in an oxygen depleted container. So no combustion occurs. Therefore no smoke (again besides the wood). Solid waste products can be an issue but still are less so than the actual plastic itself.
>Because it's not energy efficient
I may have been wrong about the efficiency of it, I remember reading that it was. This guy's setup definitely is not energy efficient, but more sophisticated ones might be. I'll have to do more research into it. But energy efficiency isn't my main point. It's still something worthwhile to do with plastic to make something decent out of besides putting it into a landfill. Burn all the oil based fuels you want to produce it, we aren't gonna run out anyways.
>but not quite as useful as true gasoline. It isn't diesel.
He has his set up to produce something similar to gasoline. But a product similar to heavy fuel oil, called pyrolysis oil, is the most base and easy to produce result. The most obvious use to me of this would be to power marine 2 stroke engines, which can damn near burn crude.
>people besides some hippy in the jungle
No. Nor do I expect them to. Hell, it isn't something most people should do period because it's fucking dangerous. It's time consuming, dangerous, expensive, and not efficient for the means that the average person has access to. I don't believe everyone should have a whole setup in their back yard producing shit quality oil like something out of the great leap forward. I believe it's something that oil companies and recycling companies should be doing a lot more than they do. They've got the means and capacity to do it on an industrial scale, but they never will. Microplastics in your blood are necessary for the jewish Messiah to come, goy.
Just about everything you can do with plastic is a net loss though. Besides dumping it in a landfill, which does nothing.
Oil companies do do it though, a little bit
Producing plastic in the first place isnt a loss at all. It's made out of byproducts of oil and natural gas manufacturing. There's very little energy used specifically in its synthesis.
Recycling it in *any way* is a net loss. Traditional recycling uses a shit ton of energy to melt plastic and reform it into new plastic, which will always eventually be thrown away or lost anyways. In traditional dumps and landfills they just end up polluting the environment anyways. Ditto for dumping it in the ocean. Incineration produces microplastics all through the atmosphere. Using microbial degradation *still puts* microplastics in the ground, as in a regular landfill. Sending it into space, as some propose, is about the most inefficient idea humanly possible.
I see pyrolysis as the only decent way to get rid of it. Because everything else is just as inefficient and produces more waste.
No, it won't get turned into perfect crude. Or perfect gas. Or perfect diesel. But it's still very much usable fuel for any engine that can handle it, and it gets put out into the atmosphere as co2. And even if co2 were harmful, it's going to go into the atmosphere anyways so who gives a fuck? It produces no microplastics. It produces no pollution in the process of production (besides the fuel source), the solid byproducts are biodegradable and the char produced is even usable as an inferior form of coal.