Sorry if this was asked before, but is the only problem that it has a bigger carbon footprint to burn than gas?
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– Creates toxic fumes
– Not very energy efficient
– The ashes are difficult to recycle
Well, we *can*. Some places *do*. It’s just a very difficult process. Not super efficient and very unclean. Some plastics lens themselves to it better than others, but in general you need to have a really good way of filtering your exhaust. While this *is* an option for disposal of plastic, it is not super economical in most places when you can just throw the stuff out.
compared to regular gas or coal, it doesn’t output as much energy. approximately it creates 25% of the heat that coal would. burning plastic is also very toxic, so it would be better idea to just recycle it instead of burning it as an efficient fuel source.
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Plastic burns, when you mix gasoline/diesel with air it explodes. You can use that explosion to push a piston.
When plastic burns it leaves behind this really sticky hard to clean stuff.
So if you just use plastic to heat water you’re going to have to spend a lot of money cleaning it.
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