Edward Lye

Just a couple of videos that came across my feed. I think I have over a hundred
tabs open across Brave and Chrome. Polymathics is a tough subject.

My short term answer which is in practice and even my wife is on board:

Ecoladrillos.

my Ecoladrillos





Our version consists of empty plastic 5kg bottles that used to hold cooking oil.

We stuff all kinds of plastic refuse in it ranging from sweet wrappers to sandwich containers.
Plastic straws and plastic bags of course and all manner of blister packs find this their destination.
More organized and resistant to scattering all over the county by animate or inanimate
forces of nature.

Plastic recycling does not work.  Look at pristine Singapore. They burn their trash to make energy.

And this is the long answer only I propose every municipality build their own
Amager Bakke.

It falls into the category of I Want This In My Backyard.



A bigger Wastebot. Much bigger.

In my country, no ski slope but a food court living off the process heat for cooking
and washing.

Waste to energy. The more plastic that is left in the wild, the more microplastics.

Think about this and think deeply.  

Phil Stevens wrote: I'd love to be able to make a batch of biochar in ten minutes.  .

You'll need all that equipment.

Molten salt is corrosive and requires special alloys and seals and pumps.

  I know these from watching all those "potential" Thorium reactor videos.
  Happily India and China have those already running.

Not at all meant for a backyard operation unless you have a great big
backyard and even then you best take care.

Your grid electricity power generator works best at full and steady load
BUT electricity is used up immediately it is produced which is a waste
since Independant Power Producers are paid to balance things out.

It is especially dire in Australia since there is so much solar piped
into the grid. Investigate the duck curve to know more.



I have a solution. What if we have a load that can be switched on and off
to balance the fluctuations and doesn't get harmed at all?

Introducing . . .



Banks of these can stabilize the grid and produce biochar and sequester
carbon.

What's not to like?

In your smaller scale, pack a biochar retort in a sandbox and place it
on an induction cooker.

It sounds feasible although the nearest I've gotten is to try to dry a milk
tin and the tin rapidly  glowed red and the paint started to smoke.

Naturally some experiment is required to get the sweet spot. Done but
not overdone.

I did a mental count:

one Lenovo (the only desktop)
one Lenovo Chromebook
one Raspberry PI 2 SBC
one Toshiba
two Sinclair Z88
four Thinkpads
one Lenovo
one HP
one NEC
and x number of DVD/Bluray/TV monitors that are presumably running a Linux SBC.

out of which due to battery/screen/power supply/keyboard issues, only 4 computers actually work.

We were in a happy place.

We grew this incredible thick, juicy and soft sugarcane(grass family) and
we bought this electric juicer but it eventually burnt out.

You get carbon sequestration, juice and bagasse as soil cover.
What's not to like?

Look at this:

Just make sure you get the VFD version.

Ours used an electric trick to get a 3-phase motor to run on single
phase. You will probably need an electrician to wire a 230V outlet.

He has a gas version.

Discard the bits with a reddish core - some kind of infection.

a word or two