Microwaves + trash = fuel...

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Nov 23, 2007 | 09:34 PM

GoCamping

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Microwaves + trash = fuel...

Saw this in PopSci today. Thought we could use some good news on the fuel front...

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bo...novator_2.html

This looks more legit than another setup I had read about, the "inventor" has a somewhat questionable past:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bo...novator_2.html

Nov 23, 2007 | 10:25 PM

empiretc

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ever see that movie "Boiler Room"??

Nov 24, 2007 | 02:40 AM

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Sounds like the Mr. Fusion from "Back to the Future".

Nov 24, 2007 | 10:26 AM

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The theory is correct and confirmable with a web search. Only 2 problems: Ernesteugene is the only one I know that will understand the theory, # 2: It uses more energy than it produces.

Nov 24, 2007 | 01:34 PM

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I thought the plasma furnace in the same magazine a while back had some good potential - http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science...cbccdrcrd.html

Nov 24, 2007 | 05:21 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by piotrsko

The theory is correct and confirmable with a web search. Only 2 problems: Ernesteugene is the only one I know that will understand the theory, # 2: It uses more energy than it produces.

Every hour, the first commercial version will turn 10 tons of auto waste—tires, plastic, vinyl—into enough natural gas to produce 17 million BTUs of energy (it will use 956,000 of those BTUs to keep itself running).
get Ernesteugene over here

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