Hi Ian, Okay. Thanks for the thoughtful response. I understand, but the idea is flawed only by today's physical restrictions and understanding. Tomorrow, who knows what the restrictions and need might demand. We now have personal computers, and personal garbage disposals in our sinks. The educational aspect did make an impression on me. As you stated, seeing is a good thing. Seeing what can be done may lead people to actually demand more to be done: garbage in, betterness out. I like it...
Marsha On Aug 13, 2013, at 3:52 AM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Marsha, > The innovation is educational, and high quality because it is real, > constructed and operated with his own hands understanding the > underlying processes, and able to be physically shown to new > audiences. The real recycle potential in the waste plastic is made > empirically evident. Quality. > > Eco-engineering-wise it is flawed and not novel (I was doing this on > the kitchen stove 45 years ago). It is very unlikely this is > ecologically cost effective at this scale with random plastic > feedstock. Questions of efficiencies of the heat source and the > process, and emissions of hydrocarbon (and other) gases as well as the > condensate, the need for post processing if you want to do more than > burn it smokily and inefficiently, health and safety, and more. > Pyrolysis plants work on an industrial scale, where the efficiencies > and secondary processes can be managed. > > So it's good to educate people with their own eyes and hands that > recycling is worth pursuing because it really works, but flawed to > suggest private self-sufficient processing as the answer. > Ian > > On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 12:00 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> Greetings, >> >> I am not in a position to respond to the efficiency and feasibility of the >> project. You may all know more than me on this topic. It is innovative and >> might be a good way to recycle our piles of plastic refuse. I heard, not to >> long ago, that most of our recyclables are still dumped in landfills or in >> the ocean. I was also impressed with what drove him to such a solution. It >> was caring. >> >> >> Marsha >> >> >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
