Here’s what I know: 1) Plastic burns. 2) Heat can be used to generate energy with steam turbines, which I’m pretty sure is how nuclear power plants and fossil fuel plants work. 3) A specialized power plant can focus on increasing efficiency and decreasing pollution. 4) Plastic recycling is really hard and has been generally unsuccessful.
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Burning would be bad.. but a pyrolizer to break down the hydrocarbon chains (in plastic) would produce usable raw fuel. It would do this by “cooking” without combustion, the heat breaks down the components of the plastic, back in to the hydrocarbons from the fuel they used.
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