18 responses to “Zero Waste Plasmagasification”

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   Casey Zeller April 20th, 2009 at 08:36

   As a child, I was thought that there were solids, liquids, and gasses. I never knew that the fourth stage was plasma. We have always wondered what we are going to do with the waste that builds up in landfills everday. This plasmagasification is an amazing process. Before the video, I had never heard of it before. From the video, it says that it can produce $22 million worth of energy and it can produce more power than any other energy conversion process. This would be something great that to get involved with. It seems like it is going to be a very lucrative business in the future.

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   Shaun Greene April 20th, 2009 at 09:10

   This is the first I’ve heard of this, but it actually sounds feasible. I look forward to hearing more about this in the future.

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   Kyle Maple April 20th, 2009 at 10:00

   I love hearing about this. It definitely sounds like another posirtive step for the environment. Hopefully it continues to get tested regularly and we continue to see very little flaws in the system.

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   Spencer McKee April 20th, 2009 at 11:56

   This sounds pretty cool. It would be a great thing if they could convert waste to energy.

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   Taylor Jenkins April 20th, 2009 at 12:03

   This is very cool and definitely something that looks like it could be feasible. Just another opportunity for an entrepreneur…

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   David Bryant April 20th, 2009 at 13:30

   This is something I have thought about in the past. Just how can we get rid of these awful landfills. This system looks very cool and I hope that this technology continues to work and becomes the new way of getting rid of garbage.

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   Andrew Sadler April 20th, 2009 at 14:21

   I can’t believe the amount of heat they can produce to make this work. With such huge plants for production I’m surprised it hasn’t been exploited more than this. It sounds very lucrative.

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   Michelle Miller April 20th, 2009 at 17:04

   That was an impressive video. I didn’t know things like that could actually happen. That’s awesome that people are thinking of these ways to get rid of the waste that people use. I’m interested to hear more about this in the future.

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   Katie Robinson April 20th, 2009 at 17:24

   This is a neat thing, its cool to hear that they are working ways to get rid of the waste people use. I hope that the technology keeps growing and we are able to get the waste rid of.

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    Nigel Wylie April 20th, 2009 at 17:43

    I’ve heard of syngas that is transported and burned in a engine to create electricity, but nothing that has plasma. Its amazing how their is no burning or emissions except the slag. Now to place one in every city and create profitable energy plants on top of old landfills.

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    Sikhanysiwe Nkala April 20th, 2009 at 18:43

    Amazing!! It’s interesting how people didn’t do this a long time ago. They are going to grow very fast, especially with the going green trend. One of the companies we presented on had a similar way of doing things but they still caused some pollution.

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    Vincent Witzel April 20th, 2009 at 18:47

    I always find it so annoying when I see shows like this on Discovery, Nat Geo, or the Science channel, am completely “wowed” by the idea, and then it seems to never materialize. Maybe I’m just impatient, but it always seems like these ideas never receive the attention and governmental support that they deserve to make them wide-spread and appear in the wider media. This is another one of those fascinating ideas, which also appears to be entirely scalable. Question is: how much will it cost a city to implement? Based on the statistics that were provided, I have a feeling the break-even point should not be difficult to reach in a short amount of time by any means! Let’s hope this idea gets the attention it deserves and cities all around the world jump on it…!

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    Stach Hazzard April 20th, 2009 at 18:53

    Another way to save the environment. Sounds cool!! I don’t like the smell of landfills and would like to see them totally gone. Hope it works!

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    Jongho James Lee April 20th, 2009 at 19:20

    I think this technology is effect because first it is environmentally friendly. Aside from disposing of newly-produced garbage, the system can also be used to dispose of accumulated landfill garbage so land reclamation is entirely possible. Another application planned is using the syngas as a base for producing hydrogen in commercial quantities, which will be used as fuel for hydrogen-powered vehicles.

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    Lauren Withers April 20th, 2009 at 19:24

    I have not heard much about this kind of technology but it sounds like a good idea. I hope it works because it would be really nice to see landfills extinct.

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    Felipe Burneo April 20th, 2009 at 20:02

    It’s very interesting how they decided to take one of the principles of chemistry (physics as well if we go deep behind it) that says that matter is never created nor destroyed, but merely transformed from one form to another.

    If they really develop the technology capable of transforming any type of waste (biodegradable or not) into something useful the computer companies (actually the environmental division of them) will be so thankful as they have been trying to find out ways to handle with all the electronic waste that every year is becoming larger and larger.

    Very interesting thing they have going on. Hopefully this technology will keep on becoming better, more affordable so that everybody can benefit of it (and I am referring to poor countries as well).

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    Micah Johnston April 20th, 2009 at 21:08

    This is amazing! We manufacture all these products then dispose of them later. I guess we really never finished the cycle of matter. Now, we can decompose the matter back to its’ original form, but with the advantage of producing energy for us to use. I remember a report done years ago of the landfill problem (granted that landfills probably have always been a problem since its conception). This seems to be one of the best beneficial new technology that mankind has ever created as far as the environment goes. I can’t remember which group was assigned this certain company, but had a similar function in dealing with waste.

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    Caleb Tan April 21st, 2009 at 00:15

    I wonder how much electricity it takes to get temperatures up to 10,000 Celsius. But they claim to be able to generate 1.2 MWh of net power from a tonne of waste. Being able to generate that much power whilst getting rid of waste at the same time is really impressive. Now it’s just a matter of convincing the local municipals to get one of these power plants. Hopefully politics won’t get in the way.