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Making hydrogen from waste plastic could pay for itself (techxplore.com)

submitted 1 year ago by bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How much energy is used to do so and how much CO2 is released as part of the process?

[–] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doesn't say, but if the electricity used is from renewables then it's irrelevant, as it can potentially produce graphene at 5% of the current price

Found this re co2

Compared to commercial methods for carbon nanotube production that are being used right now, ours uses about 90% less energy and generates 90%-94% less carbon dioxide," Wyss said.

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-joule-technique-efficiently-would-be-pollution.html

If they're making graphene and hydrogen then there can't be much left over can there?