yukkuri_kame wrote:wonder how much $?
Hm...maybe twenty grand? Not everything needs to be built in that style, though. I'm sure a bright tinkerer could put together something that works similarly for a few hundred.
I think that burying plastic is usually a better option than burning it, and recycling a better option still. Burning plastic in engines is a better option than burning it in home incinerators, or letting it blow out to sea. It's really complicated, but I think there are cases where this is the right thing to do.
The part I really agreed with was when he talked about outreach, about making the embodied
energy apparent to people and how dramatically this can transform their behavior.
I think I saw a kid put something made of vinyl into his machine, which was a little scary: chlorinated hydrocarbons at high temperature are usually bad news.
Neat
video. Thanks!
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