Anyone here familiar with thermal deploymerization?
I believe this will be an important technology in the future, but I wonder what the raw feedstock could be to make it economically sustainable. Obviously turkey guts and shit and landfills won't last that long.
I was thinking pelagic silts and oozes from the ocean floor but is there really enough organic material contained in that medium or is it mostly just sand and calcium?
Any ideas?
Bump I guess? Am I on the right board?
What board would be an appropriate forum to discuss this subject?
>>8586218
>>8586329
>>8586529
I'm not a chemE., but /sci/ has turned into a high school shitfest, which is a shame. I don't really browse this board much anymore for that reason. Maybe try to find a smaller subreddit that covers this sort of thing.
Also could this be used to convert cellulose to liquid fuel?
>>8586741
>sci/ has turned into a high school shitfest
Sadly true. I remember when most posts were about actual math and science. Now it's just "brainlet this, 300k starting that".
Time for me to leave this place and not return for a long time.
>>8586741
Reddit sucks though. II don't want to register for their circlejerk just to ask a question about pelagic ooze they don't know the answer to either.
>>8586218
It would make more sense to use renewable sources (sun, wind, whatever) to reverse combustion and produce hydrocarbons from carbon dioxide and water. or something. making syngas with a plasma furnace is more economical as a reuse form since you wouldn't have to sort out inorganic particulate.
>>8586832
nvm it would be more economical to just use plant biomass since plants already do that.