Submitted 1 year ago by bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-09-hydrogen-plastic-pay.html
So this is either a big oil corp spending pennies on theorycrafting some exciting buzzword technosolutions
Or
A big oil corp which figured out that if they want to stay relevant for more than 10 yrs they need to diversify into other energy sources. With all the deserved hate they attract such companies are probably most likely to invent and implement aomething like this at scale.
It doesn’t change the fact that they should be nationalized asap and their decisionmakers jailed.
95% of hydrogen is made using natural gas in a process called natural gas reforming. They see a way to maintain their investments.
It doesn’t change the fact that they should be nationalized asap
How did that go in Venezuela?
Leftist mentions nationalization
Reactionaries: Bu-But, VENIZUALA!!
“We know that polyethylene, for example, is made of 86% carbon and 14% hydrogen, and we demonstrated that we are able to recover up to 68% of that atomic hydrogen as gas with a 94% purity,” Wyss said. "Developing the methods and expertise to characterize and quantify all the gases, including hydrogen, produced by this method was a difficult but rewarding process for me
The hero we need
Not quite. This is greenwashing. the company funding the research is the world’s largest offshore drilling company. You got suckered or are trying to sucker in other people
Rice University are greenwashing?
How much energy is used to do so and how much CO2 is released as part of the process?
Doesn’t say, but if the electricity used is from renewables, then it’s irrelevant if it can produce graphene at that price
Found this:
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.
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?
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
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Sounds promising but remember that when there’s news of hydrogen, there’s a fossil fuel company behind it
This is from SLB, the company that Kevin Wyss works for. Took about 30 seconds of googling to find out that it’s essentially a greenwashing fossil fuel company
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlumberger#:~:text=Schlum….
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bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Lol, energy company interested in energy research Such a gotcha
You’re shitting on this guy? Check yourself
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