Apparently if you microwave plastic at the correct frequency it breaks down into carbon black (an ash-like raw material) and hydrocarbon gases, which can be burned (natural gas) or condensed into liquid fuel (oil). Sadly if you’re hard-up for some petrol you can’t just throw your ice cube trays into the micro-wave, there are over 10 million micro-wave frequencies and you need to hit just the right one for any given material for this little miracle to happen.
Frank Pringle and Hawk Hogan, of Global Resource Corp, have narrowed down the frequencies to a useful 1,200 that can transform auto waste (tires, plastic, vinyl) into natural gas. Popular Science reports that the first commercial version of the GRC Hawk 10 Recycler, scheduled to start operating in Long Island in February, will turn 10 tons of auto waste into 17 million BTUs of energy every hour in the form of natural gas. On top of producing 18 times more energy than it creates (it will is 956,000 of the 17 million to run), the Hawk Recycler is said to produce zero emissions. Except it is producing micro-waves and fossil fuels to burn, but I guess it is better than all that stuff sitting in a landfill.
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Please elaborate on the commercial viability of the process
I want have price of GRC Hawk 10 Recycler
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Good day…please furnish me the industrial specifications of the Hawk recycler. It might just be the solution to the garbage problem we have here in the Philippines. Please include approximate cost if ever it will be adopted by our government.We have 150 tons of garbage collected daily in one province..where 75% of that is organic and 25% plastic and rubber. Thanks,do send it to my e-mail address: victor_botong@yahoo.com
Dear sirs,
We are interested. Please send me the technical specs through email.
Thanks.
I am currently producing crude oil from plastic in Europe using different method. From 400 tons of plastic garbage I am getting 250 ton of crude oil ( 300.000 liters ).I see the synergy with your company. We are not capturing gas from our process. Please send me your specification.
I can be contacted at Peter.Turo@motivausa.com.
Looking forward to our conversation. Warmest regards,
Peter Turo
We are recycling guys. Please quote us your price. It will help us to solve EPA problem.
waiting for your feedback. Rgds.
I work for Innovation Devlopment Corperation as Head of Marketing and we are very interested in the Hawk 10 as a purchase or an investment for the Caqnadian market, please send me information about the product and your company, Thank-you.
The gyres of plastic just gained value! Put one of these “Recyclers on an old fishing trawler, and bingo! instant “Oil Mine” of unending proportion! Where are the unregulatable, pariah, piranha, vulture pirate capitalists when we need them? Certainly not ’state-side! Watch the indians on this one! Especially from Bangladesh!