Plastic shopping bags make a fine diesel fuel -- ScienceDaily


Science | 207025 hits | Feb 14 9:40 am | Posted by: N_Fiddledog
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Plastic shopping bags, an abundant source of litter on land and at sea, can be converted into diesel, natural gas and other useful petroleum products, researchers report. The conversion produces significantly more energy than it requires and results in tr

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  1. by avatar Robair
    Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:25 pm
    Excellent.

  2. by Canadian_Mind
    Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:49 pm
    equal energy content and better centane number? Where can I pick some up???

  3. by avatar Jabberwalker
    Fri Feb 14, 2014 6:55 pm
    Our descendants are going to be strip-mining land fills for concentrated, refined materials like this. Also, they will find some pretty rich (if mixed up) metal ores, there. It's just a matter of having high enough energy prices to justify re-visiting our garbage.

  4. by avatar PublicAnimalNo9
    Sat Feb 15, 2014 8:46 am
    Holy underwear!!! That is friggin' ! Killing 1.3 birds with one stone.

    And no that's not intended to be sarcastic 8)



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