Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "New technology turning plastic into fuel" video.

@new-knowledge8040 There's no cover up. Those people are most likely chopping wood and using it as fuel to heat up the plastics. If you did that at an industrial scale, you'd need to have a massive forest area you could replant and let sections grow for years or else it wouldn't be sustainable. If you're using electric ovens for heat, which is the sane solution, let's say you had a solar farm so that you make it as sustainable as possible. You could use that solar farm to charge batteries and "fuel" electric motors. You could sell that power to the grid. You're """"losing"""" money by doing this, so there's no cover up. This is really only worth it when you have massive volumes of plastic you can't get rid of, so for example local governments or waste management companies pay these guys to take care of the problem. They're not in the business of making fuel. They're in the business of making a problem go away. The fuel is just a cherry on top to help them make a profit.
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@jerrywhidby. If we lost energy in that process we'd never have progressed past the steam age because it would have cost us more energy to dig coal and drill oil than the energy it would take to run a factory. In this process you're not taking energy that's been created already and refining it. You're literally heating up plastic until it's destroyed.
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