debit.servus
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He builds a mini oil refinery at home to pyrolyze waste plastic into high-grade, low sulfur diesel & gasoline. It could be improved to use the byproducts (propane, butane gas) as energy to power the reaction, requiring no inputs other than waste plastics.
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I am going to call it now, this is the next “free grease party”. Why, Waste plastic is everywhere and some people even have to pay to dispose of it. You can use multiple types of plastic for the feedstock, so it’s not like you’re limited to soda bottles. Also, If you are creative with sourcing you could find truckloads of free waste plastic to feed into your micro-refinery.
What comes out is clear diesel fuel that safe for even a early 2000s fuel injected diesel (common rail need not apply). Since it doesn’t need minute by minute tending to keep it going, you could watch TV and tend it during commercials, or build it to set and forget. If you build it right, it doesn’t even release noxious chemicals into your space, if you keep it inside. The reaction puts out heat, meaning free heat in the winter!
For me, it’s worth it if I could reliably find tons of waste plastic on a regular basis, as I’ll need a lot of plastic trash to get a little diesel. I’ll probably get one cubic centimeter of diesel and gasoline for every two cubic centimeters of waste plastic after conversion losses. Since I know a lot of frugalists who happily work for less than minimum wage on their weekend, I can delegate the refinement, and they can take minimum wage in fuel instead of a lower cash wage.
Since I’m moving into a skoolie, and I plan to build a back deck to max out the legal length of the Skoolie, I will have a place for the diesel refinery. If needed, the bus can easily pull a trailer for feedstock runs. Regardless, I’m installing the maximum diesel capacity legal to carry interstate onboard an RV (it goes without saying the skoolie will be registered as an RV so RV regs apply). I will have at least 1000 miles of range, hopefully 5000
Waste plastic looks to be the 2020s used cooking oil nearly everywhere. It’s only a matter of time before hobbyists and ecomodders catch on and join the “free plastic party”. A few to several years of that, the general public will catch on and companies will begin paying businesses for their non-recyclable waste plastic, ending the free plastic party. Waste plastic is the used cooking oil of the 2020s!
I can break free from the fuel monopoly now, and be free to explore North America endlessly for the next 5-10 years, while I flip fuel scarcity the middle finger.
Since this micro refinery is close to the same level as a wood gasifier - I’m better off retail arbitraging, scouring the Internet for discounts on investment property, and founding a software company, scaling it and then selling it for millions (thefastlaneforum.com)...
Once I’m made decamillionaire status thanks to entrepreneurship, I can break free from needing to work ever again, and be free to explore North America and the world whenever I want, while I flip scarcity the middle finger.