Japanese man creates machine that converts plastic to oil

TheDrop · **Joined:** May 2008 **Posts:** 7150 **Location:** uefa2012

Impressive.

If this thing becomes more known in the US, the guy could become a billionaire.

Goseki · **Joined:** Apr 2008 **Posts:** 3452 **Location:**

Only reason i see holding him back is energy cost on a mass level. It's prob not that much on his small machine used for demonstration, but what about mass production level. Will the energy return from plastic->oil be greater than the energy to run the machine, ie: melting massive amounts of plastic as well as the purification steps to get gasoline.

dom · **Posted:** Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:05 am

Goseki wrote:

Only reason i see holding him back is energy cost on a mass level. It's prob not that much on his small machine used for demonstration, but what about mass production level. Will the energy return from plastic->oil be greater than the energy to run the machine, ie: melting massive amounts of plastic as well as the purification steps to get gasoline.

Yes, as per the original article posted on digg.

Not to mention it would be easy to use geothermal/solar/nuclear

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