A Big WOW! For Earth From The Little Island Of Japan
Akinori Ito has invented a machine called Blest, which converts plastic back into oil! Yes, really.
Looking eerily like the DeLorean’s flux capacitor in the Back To The Future movies, Ito’s machine is produced in various sizes, for both industrial and home uses. It can easily transform a kilogram of plastic waste into a liter of oil, using about 1 kilowatt of electricity but without emitting CO2 in the process. The machine uses a temperature controlling electric heater instead of flames, processing anything from polyethylene or polystyrene to polypropylene (numbers 2-4).
1 kg of plastic produces one liter of oil. This takes about 1 kilowatt of electricity, which costs 20 cents. 1 liter diesel oil costs $1.50 NOW, this is what I call recycling!
Although the company still mainly produces larger, industrial-use machines, people from around the world are anxious to know if and where they can purchase a machine. So, here you go – Blest- click on the english catalogue to get you answers direct from the horse’s mouth.
A wonderful invention to sustainably utilize the huge waste problem of the wonderful invention of plastic. It’s looking better and better ….
Dear Germany, When You Get To The Green Future, Please Throw The Rest Of Us A Rope!
Hailing from Freiburg, Germany, Rolf Disch is a renowned architect that has put his little city front and center on the eco-map. Literally transforming Freiburg into Germany’s eco-capital where about 35% of residents don’t own a car and new homes routinely incorporate photovoltaic panels. And now, a popular destination for tourist world-wide seeking the reality of sustainable architecture and the inspiration for better eco-friendly housing options for their future. (more…)
It’s become almost a reflex to bash aviation’s role in climate change. Passenger
planes are big, they emit stuff into the atmosphere, so they must be bad. It’s
true, but it’s not quite that simple.
Last week, climate and atmospheric scientists from the US and Europe presented
research to a group of aviation types gathered at the Royal Society of London.
Much of their focus was on nitrogen oxide (NOx), and what they found is that
simply dismissing NOx as just another nasty greenhouse gas is not only bad
science, but could also be unwise policy. (more…)
Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine in 1897 with full intensions of fueling
it with vegetable oil.
The diesel common at your local gas station is derived from petroleum fuel oil
(petrodiesel).
Biodiesel is derived from vegetable oil, most commonly, oil extracted from soy
beans
Biodiesel can be blended with petrodiesel in any amount, fractions to 99% and
run in modern diesel vehicles. This is done to compensate biodiesel having a
higher gel point. But this can also be overcome by installing a fuel heater
and that is only necessary in colder weather.
Used vegetable oil can be used but, you must replace the rubber fuel line hoses,
gaskets, and fittings with synthetic ones. Simply put, it hardens the rubber.
Enviromental benefit:
With pure biodiesel the key ingrediants for acid rain is eliminated, and
greatly reduced when using the biodiesel with fractional petrodiesel blend.
Biodiesel has a substantial reduction of unburned hydrocarbons, particulate
matter, and CO2 emissions.
Health benefit:
Biodiesel emissions showed a decreased levels of potential cancer causing
compounds from 50% to 90%
If every American walked 1 mile to get lunch instead of driving
a car. You would burn 100 calories and avoid the same amount
of CO2 pollution as taking 4.3 million cars off the road.
Do you have a trouble light? If so, change out the incandescent bulb
with a compact fluorescent bulb (CFL). You will use less energy, there will
be less heat and will be safer in tight spaces! A trouble light is
the kind with a hook at the top with a long extension cord for use
under car, in closets, etc.
A new refrigerator uses half the energy than the typical refrigerator
from 1990′s. That means half of the electricity and half of the CO2
pollution.
You will notice a widget in the lower right sidebar of this page. Unless you are alot further ahead than the average PC user, you are using electricity from the grid. Since all pcs and servers use electricity, that’s alot of CO2 (carbon dioxide) emissions that the power companies pump out.
CO2 Stat Pro has sponsored a new green compaign by tallying the time visitors spend at your site, then estimating the amount of CO2 expended in powering the pcs and services involved. Based upon this sum the service will count the carbons and pay the equivalent in offsets to Sustainable Travel International, a non profit organization that funds renewable energy in the developing world and green power projects in North America.
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Hailing from Freiburg, Germany, Rolf Disch is a renowned architect that has put his little city front and center on the eco-map. Literally transforming Freiburg into Germany’s eco-capital where about 35% of residents don’t own a car and new homes routinely incorporate photovoltaic panels. And now, a popular destination for tourist world-wide seeking the reality of sustainable architecture and the inspiration for better eco-friendly housing options for their future. 
