Naked Science Forum
Non Life Sciences => Chemistry => Topic started by: Heronumber0 on 14/07/2007 12:33:20
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At first glance this looked amazing:
Plastics can be bombarded with microwaves, in a vacuum, to crack the hydrocarbon chain. The products are made into gases. Natural gas (methane, I think) would be tapped off and the remaining hydrocarbons turned into oil. Can this type of process save some of our world's energy problems by recycling trash plastic?
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn12141-giant-microwave-turns-plastic-back-to-oil.html
Comments welcomed.
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Sorry, this is a duplicate of http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=8593.0
I will lock this topic so that comments to both will be kept together.
At least it shows the matter still attracts interest.