...and how capitalism will find a way to fuck it up.
You know that scene at the end of Back To The Future where Doc Brown puts a banana peel and a half full can of Miller Lite into the engine of the Delorian via something called "Mr. Fusion" ? Well this is that. Kind of. I learned about Plasma Waste Converters on my favorite podcast Stuff You Should Know. While listening I was thinking to myself why the fuck is there not one of these plants in every fucking town in the world? Oh because of the shitty capitalists that run Earth. The reason I'm so excited about this is because of what it could mean for not only the energy problem but the waste problem us dirty fucking humans have. Watch this short video. Or listen to the podcast I listened to. (You should be listening to these guys anyway)
So basically, you put in literally any kind of trash, normal, gross, toxic or whatever and it converts it into a durable, useable material but also clean hydrogen gas that not only powers the plant itself but also can power your whole fucking town. Why do we still make stupid solar panels again? I mean, this is as clean as nuclear power but there's no radioactive waste. Fuck, it actually eats waste.
For us to not be implementing this on a large scale is such a human/capitalist fucking way to go out . We have the solution but no one wants to rock the boat. I hear the argument that it's too expensive... yet oil companies have no problem building refineries all over the country. Power plants and solar arrays and wind farms are built all over the country. Huge amounts of money is invested in oil drilling and pipelines. Landfills are probably not cheap either. It's not that it's expensive it's that it's not as profitable. I wouldnt be surprised if energy companies were actively spending money trying to stop these plants from being built. Chevron could buy or merge with Waste Management and invest in converting Oil Refineries into Waste incinerating power plant trash dumps. Create govt. incentives for waste companies to work with energy companies, or something along one of these lines.
This is some Star Trek "we don't use money any more" utopia-level shit that 21st century, dick-brain Earthlings aren't ready for apparently.
