It is about time someone came up with this as our land fills are full of this unused plastic.The Japanese even has come up with a table top model that sells for around 12.500 and is a bit pricey yet but I sure like the concept. Type in tigard company and see more on this idea the article says it takes about ten pounds of plastic to make a gallon of oil.

Japanese?

I found this link from Oregon.

http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Tigard-co ... 09299.html

And what would you do with a bunch of oil on a table top anyways?

Moi

Moi I am not sure who invented this first and yes this company is in the US but look up oil from plastic and you will see a Japanese model.As for oil on a table well I guess if you like your oil on a table for 12.500 that would be up to moi.But at that price I would use a metal bucket and make oil out of that plastic one just sayin.

sag111 (imported) wrote: Sun May 08, 2011 11:09 pm It is about time someone came up with this as our land fills are full of this unused plastic.The Japanese even has come up with a table top model that sells for around 12.500 and is a bit pricey yet but I sure like the concept. Type in tigard company and see more on this idea the article says it takes about ten pounds of plastic to make a gallon of oil.

Then what do you use the oil for? To make more plastic? Since plastics are derived from petrochemicals there is hardly anything amazing about this. You could just recycle existing plastics.

sag111 (imported) wrote: Sun May 08, 2011 11:09 pm It is about time someone came up with this as our land fills are full of this unused plastic.The Japanese even has come up with a table top model that sells for around 12.500 and is a bit pricey yet but I sure like the concept. Type in tigard company and see more on this idea the article says it takes about ten pounds of plastic to make a gallon of oil.

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moi621 (imported) wrote: Sun May 08, 2011 11:15 pm t was 12500 yen, it isn't too bad of a price at all.

Japanese?

I found this link from Oregon.

http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Tigard-co ... 09299.html

And what would y

ou do with a bunch of oil on a table top anyways?

Moi

That website says it will create other chemicals/contaminants from the plastic, as well as oil:

the oil is separated from all the other chemicals and contaminants in the plastics.

I wonder what these "other chemicals and contaminants" are, and how bad (toxic, smelly, etc) they would be? If you are getting just 1 gallon of oil from 10 pounds of plastic, it seems to me like there would be A LOT of this "other stuff" leftover...!

Also if it is making crude oil, I don't think it will do much good to the average person. You can't put crude into your car or other machines, it needs to be refined some before it becomes motor oil.

Even so, it does sound like it could be a useful technology.

If you can get one gallon of "oil" from 10 lbs of plastic that's pretty good depending on the usefulness of that oil. Since the density of oil is somewhat variable depending on exact composition, general figures range from 6 to 8 lbs/gallon, so getting 60-80% of the original weight out as oil is pretty good.

But I am sure there is more to the story than we see here. I'm sure different plastics inputed will give different outputs so they no doubt picked the best case scenario. What happens to the gizmo when someone throws in some fiberglass reinforced parts? How much energy must be supplied to break down the plastic which would decrease the overall efficiency?