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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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[–] pete@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, the get 8% of the bottle into a usable form . . . by turning plastic bottles into gases. So where does the rest of the bottle go? How much energy is used for that?

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

Second paragraph...

In this work, we converted waste plastics—including mixed waste plastics that don't have to be sorted by type or washed—into high-yield hydrogen gas and high-value graphene