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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenjib" data-source="post: 850096" data-attributes="member: 530">If you read the article, it states that plastic is an ideal fuel for this process.  Problem potentially solved!This is really cool.  I wonder if it will turn into a household appliance.  Just take your trash down into the basement and put it into your combined furnace/generator/oil creator.  The furnace powers itself, heats your house, generates electricity, and gives you gasoline for your car.  If you have excess you can sell gasoline or put electricity back on the power grid or store the energy in a hydrogen cell for later use -- i.e. in the summer you bulk up hydrogen cells for use in the winter when your heating demands go up and people in colder regions up North can buy excess energy generated by people with fewer energy demands in the South.Another way you could do it would be to exchange seasonal energy fluctuations between the north and south hemisphere.This is the kind of energy revolution that people have been discussing since hydrogen cells hit the market.  The problem you don't always hear about is that hydrogen cells are only a storage medium and it requires more energy to power them then they provide, thus they don't lessen dependance on foreign oil until we can move our power plants away from fossil fuels (fat chance without new technology like this article suggests).If I understand right, this is *(&(*$#!& brilliant!  In combination with fuel cells, it could very well mark an entire new historical era on the way...EDIT:  Oh, and it gives you drinking-quality water to boot!  It seems almost like a "stillsuit" at the societal level.</blockquote>

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