Replies to post #91247 on Plastic2Oil Inc (PTOI)

[techisbest]

duh dude: No, the gubmint should stop funding research on fusion energy because...

its being going on for decades!!! but nothing yet... its always too expensive...ALWAYS...

[Justice37]

JBI is an oil and gas company, but the biggest benefit they bring is a realistic way to deal with some of the 93% of plastic that is not recycled. Plastic production continues to increase and much of the plastic that is recycled is recycled into products that can't be recycled.

http://www.epa.gov/osw/nonhaz/municipal/pubs/msw2008rpt.pdf

I'm all for any way of dealing with waste, JBI seems to have the best way for dealing with on part of that stream, plastic.

[rth]

Actually, plastic to oil is more like energy in solid form to energy in liquid form than it is waste to energy. Just changing the chemistry with heat and the catalyst. The catalyst makes it cost efficient.

[Steady_T]

Indeed, it would be great thing if the DOE quit wasting money on the IETR Tokamak, but that has nothing to do with JBI.

JBI is not about solving the energy problems of the USA. Although it will make a small contribution to improving the situation.

JBI is about taking a waste product and turning it into something useful. That useful product is diesel, gasoline, and butane.

At most the amount of fuel produced by JBI will be less than 10% of the oil used in this country.

What fuel JBI does produce will reduce oil imports. JBI will also have a positive economic impact by reducing the amount of material that goes into expensive to operate land fills.

No one here has said any thing close to the grandiose ideas you seem to have formed about what JBI and it's P2O process is about.