#WeAreInALotOfTrouble #ThisIsNotADrill

... and so maddening, since due to various innovations, for decades, we've not needed burn fossil fuels to achieve our high-tech lifestyles of comfort. But, the powerful profiteers want to keep us enslaved and kept as their lucrative cash cows, to tip the balance of wealth in their favour, and to hell with the #externalities driving us all to #hell. #thanks #capitalism #blinding #greed

Marieke Bednarczyk

April 17, 2019 1:30pm

Today I went to see a friend who lives on the other side of Utrecht. I decided to go by bike this time (about 12 km) and when I was riding on the Catharijnesingel, near Central Station but on the other side where I don't go that often, I saw this. A giant whale made of plastic waste. Impressive!
#recycling #upcycling #plastic #waste #art #Utrecht

23dornot23d

February 9, 2019 3:45am

#plastic

https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/02/09/0046221/new-chemical-process-can-convert-nearly-a-quarter-of-all-plastic-waste-into-fuel

Purdue chemist Linda Wang and her colleagues heated water to between 716 and 932 degrees Fahrenheit at pressures approximately 2300 times greater than the atmospheric pressure at sea level. When purified polypropylene waste was added to the supercritical water, it was converted into oil within in a few hours, depending on the temperature. At around 850 degrees Fahrenheit, the conversion time was lowered to under an hour.

From the above - so how much energy is needed - to get this working - and how long does it take ..... does not sound feasibly useful - but we will see how far it goes ........ one day they may realize all the easy fuel has gone from under the ground.

New Chemical Process Can Convert Nearly a Quarter of All Plastic Waste Into Fuel - Slashdot

"Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new chemical process that they say can convert approximately one-quarter of the world's plastic waste into gasoline and diesel-like fuels," writes Slashdot reader dmoberhaus. Motherboard explains...