Device Creates Energy, Fuel, and Usable Compost from Trash
If you’ve ever seen the movie Idiocracy, you may have a vague fear of giant landfills toppling over and spilling into the streets. Fortunately, that fear may never become a reality now that the Powermaster ReCyclone is available.
The ReCyclone works by grinding trash into small pieces, thereby reducing landfill space up to 97 percent.
Trash compacted by the ReCyclone can be used to create energy or compost material—organic waste becomes diesel fuel, and plastic becomes oil. The machine can grind up any piece of waste ranging from 20 microns to 12 inches.
For some perspective, the ReCyclone can get more gold out of electronic devices than from a gold mine (one metric ton of circuit boards contains between 80 and 1,500 grams of gold, which is 40 to 800 times the concentration of gold available in gold ore mined in the United States) and 1 kilogram of plastic recycled in the machine can yield 95 percent of 1 liter of diesel.
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Essentially, the machine gives any piece of trash the chance for a second life as a renewable resource.
Possible uses for the technology are seemingly endless. Not only can the ReCyclone create space in already overcrowded landfills, but it can also reduce industrial waste from factories and help out in disaster relief efforts by reducing debris.
To see the ReCyclone in all its glory, check out this YouTube video.
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What does this statement mean exactly - “it can get more gold out of electronic devices than from a gold mine” ? Are we saying that this thing can get more results by eating trash instead of eating a gold mine, or that if you feed as much trash as you feed mine processing plants dirt and haulage from a mine, that you get a better return from the recyclone?
I don’t even think the first instance is possible, and the second is highly, highly unlikely.
“One man’s trash dump is another one’s gold mine”…This is a truism with regards to your article.
It’s said too that more energy is expended from mining and creating aluminum than recycling it.
Recycling makes ecological AND business sense.
Great Article! More please…
“1 kilogram of plastic recycled in the machine can yield 95 percent of 1 liter of diesel.”
Do you mean “95 cl of diesel” or have I misunderstood something? The use of percent seems a bit out of place.
Andreas - yes, the stated figures are correct according to the company that manufactures ReCyclone. Sorry if it sounds a bit strange.
@ Jesse
It means, pound for pound gold is in much higher concentrations in old electronics than in an equivalent weight in raw ore.
I’m rather nervous about this, it just sounds a little too good to be true. So does all the waste have to be properly divided to get the gold from circuit boards, or oil from plastic?
IF the figures are right, it’s really promising.
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Wow dude, now THAT is my kind of device! Where do I sign?
JT
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