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Transforming Waste Plastic Into $10/Barrel Fuel
Mike writes "Today Washington DC-based company Envion opened a $5 million dollar facility that they claim will be able to efficiently transform plastic waste into a source of oil-like fuel. The technology uses infra-red energy to remove hydrocarbons from plastic without the use of a catalyst, transforming 82% of the original plastic material into fuel. According to Envion, the resulting fuel can then be blended with other components, providing a source for gasoline or diesel at as low as $10 per barrel."
right sure you do
Well, if that oil is to be used to heat houses, why not use a district heating system attached directly to the Capitol Building? Then you'd get hot air for free!
Be relentless!
Check it out; this is an extremely boring topic. So, I think I'll spice it up at least a little bit.
I just got back from Best Buy. The new Zune came out yesterday and I've read how much better it is than the iPod Touch and not being one to believe everything I read on the internet, I had to go and see for myself. I'll just end the suspense now and cut to the chase. Anybody positing that the ZuneHD is a better media player than the iPod Touch has either never been in the same room with both of them at the same time, is a blind MS fanboy or is just plain astroturfing.
The vaunted OLED screen is not nearly as great as it's made out to be. Sitting next to the iPod, it even looked washed out. Maybe it's because OLED's don't look so great in bright light whereas plain old LED's actually do being somewhat reflective and all unlike OLED's. And of course, since most people use portable media players to go outside with, the iPod wins. The iPod's screen is bigger, it has more pixels which makes it better for web browsing, the iPod has myriad 3rd party apps which the Zune does not. Subjectively speaking, the Zune is still marginally designed compared to the iPod. The transitions between menus and screens is prettier and more fluid on the iPod.
The Zune has a few checkbox features like HD radio. Maybe that will do it for some people, I personally don't care. The iPod has wi-fi, my phone can tether. I can stream much more music, much more reliably this way than I can hunting for an HD radio station. And, as for outputting 720P video to my TV (once you buy the expensive add-on docking station that is), yeah right. I might do it once for the novelty.
Basically, I'm just a regular guy with no dog in this race (I use my G1 as a PMP) and I'm going to tell you how it is. If this is the best Microsoft has up it's sleeve to compete with the iPod/iPhone juggernaut, anybody reading this that is on the Zune team, better start submitting your resumes.
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I mean, I guess I'm stupid for just going by the words someone says. I'm stupid for not being able to read minds. Or to make headway with idiotically-worded statements.
Ruby Neural Evolution of Augmenting Topologies
Your writings brought tears to my eyes, comrade. It's a shame that the real patriots will be fighting against their own homeland, which will become the next Nazi Germany, in another 20-30 years.
Yeah. They got a quasi-race war in the press, to distract the base from stuff like this:
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/09/hbc-90005704
and this:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/09/15/bagram/index.html
Hey! Stay classy America! Your Edward R. Murrow is a comedian for chris'sake!
http://crooksandliars.com/dday/colbert-goes-there-only-media-figure-america
Meanwhile - back in the states:
http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/8133
http://www.examiner.com/x-10317-San-Diego-County-Political-Buzz-Examiner~y2009m9d11-San-Diego-Sheriff-deployed-military-crowd-control-device-at-Congressional-town-halls
Gosh. Glenn Beck didn't FREAK OUT about that, did he?
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
My Gawd your signature has revealed an awesome truth to me. It explains at least some of the USA's awful spelling choices.
The new right fascists are bilingual. They speak English and Bullshit.