Comments on: Award-Winning Inventor Makes Fuel from Plastic Bags

By: Ronald73

Ronald73 — Mon, 14 Apr 2014 04:59:00 +0000

Yes, and human and animal bodies generate heat and methane gas so as the population (humans AND animals) increases we’ll generate more global heat. Let’s all lie down for one hour in the middle of the day and maybe drive only half way to work and grow all of our vegetables in our back yards or in window boxes and take shallow breaths so we don’t use so much oxygen and never fly in a jet plane, et cetera.

By: elton

elton — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 07:50:00 +0000

If this can be replicated to an industrial level this could be big business

By: Yogita Vibhute

Yogita Vibhute — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:54:00 +0000

Its very good what will cost of this instrument for India

By: Vegnesh

Vegnesh — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:23:00 +0000

can metallised film (plastic coated with a couple of layers of Al atoms ) be also converted

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:27:00 +0000

Sounds like a plan -maybe you should try it Smarty Pants.

By: Me

Me — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:21:00 +0000

what is the additional refinement process mentioned earlier that could, in turn, turn the crude oil produced into gasoline?

By: fil smyth

fil smyth — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:44:00 +0000

Did a search and found pages that support your statement. She does deserve some credit. However, regardless of any patent this is a simple idea and various people are coming up with it independently, without ever having heard of the others. For that matter, I would not be surprised to learn that someone thought of it shortly after plastics began to be produced.

In the past and even up until today, ideas like this have been heavily suppressed. If this were not the case, and if Alka was indeed the first to think of it, everyone would know her name.

By: fil smyth

fil smyth — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:30:00 +0000

Yes. Watch the video.

B-)

By: Qb2001

Qb2001 — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:00:00 +0000

We will so completely not be safe from global warming!!!! Plastic bags are not the only thing causing global warming. Combustion, factory farms, nuclear power, and so much more! Get you facts straight sweetheart.

By: Qby2001

Qby2001 — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 17:53:00 +0000

Actually genius if you keep reading you will see that they do infact mention that the burning of the oil gives off CO2. The machine itself is non-polluting, and your wrong about it being as bad as the plastic bags, plastic bags give off while being made, during there useful time and when in landfills where they take centuries to decompose giving off even more gases and filling up the dumps. Not to mention that while they are in a landfill they kill animals who think it is food. Before you decide to try and be all smart do a little more reading. Research is your friend!

By: giveahoot

giveahoot — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:45:00 +0000

Ooooorrr, we could not totally overgeneralize another person’s statement and go out and buy a couple $1 reusable eco-friendly shopping bags. They make them out of burlap, canvas, and in all kinds of fun colors. Go wild.

By: Guest

Guest — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 02:37:00 +0000

Could this technology be applied to plastic bottles too?

By: Zee Zee

Zee Zee — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:49:00 +0000

why don’t we also not turn soil into food, or not turn cotton into clothes, or not turn wood into books? maybe we should just freeze in the winter.

By: Bernie Meister

Bernie Meister — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:31:57 +0000

Give me a break. That little 10000 dollar contraption turns plastic bags into gasoline. Anyone involved in the energy business knows better. Better put a gag on this fellow.

By: Sanjeev

Sanjeev — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 06:35:55 +0000

Guys Wake up..
Alka Zadgaonkar has patented this “Fabulous” process more than a decade ago..Lets give the right person the right credit..

By: EFREN B.

EFREN B. — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:59:57 +0000

GOVERMENTS DO NOTHING, ONLY PEOPLE CAN SAVE THE WORLD
MAKE THIS MACHINE AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE OF THE WORLD

By: Random

Random — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 04:07:44 +0000

Better solution: just stop using plastic bags in the first place. American society seems hell bent on solving problems we shouldn’t have in the first place. A pill to cure obesity, alternative energy to allow you to keep consuming as much as you want, desalination so we can keep wasting fresh water. How about scaling back the gluttony instead? I’m not a Luddite, but you’d be amazed how far a little conservation and moderation will take you…

By: Nick P

Nick P — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:42:09 +0000

The energy density of oil is about 10.7KWh per liter. The net gain in energy therefore appears to be about 9.7KWhr of energy per Kg of plastic bags.

Another way of interpreting the claim is to calculate the breakeven point for a $10K machine that produces fuel competing with hte current national avg pump price of $3.13/gal. About 4200 gallons are required. Of course that neglects cost of plastic (free? from stores??), loabor, and peripheral eqt. Nonetheless, there looks to be merit in the idea.

By: Michael Ricciardi

Michael Ricciardi — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:25:57 +0000

To Thomas Jefferson:

you wrote:

“The majority of LDPE plastic bags are made from natural gas, not oil.”

Natural gases (such as Ethane C2H5, and methane, CH4) are hydrocarbon gases, and are the result of the same natural processes that produce crude oil (a less volatile, more strongly bonded hydrocarbon); the gases are the volatiles.

So, the causal chain would be: oil => natural gas => plastic bags (+ heat) => gas vapor (+ water cooling) => oil

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:14:07 +0000

This is a step in the right direction. My local recycle won’t take plastic bags, so a tremendous ressource is being lost. The product could be used for other things besides fuels, although a refinery would be required. Hovever we have tons and tons of plastic bags and a lot of excess refinery capacity right now.