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Recycle Plastic back into Oil

Imagine if this takes off, we can recycle a lot of plastic waste back into usable oil.

a Japanese company called Blest, has invented a way to recycle plastic. The company has created a small, safe and easy to use machine that can convert several types of plastic back into oil... 

The company uses a temperature controlling electric heater rather than flame to burn the plastic, therefore, the conversion technology is very safe. The result is a crude gas that can fuel things like generators or stoves and, when refined, can even be pumped into a car, a boat or motorbike...  

One kilogram of plastic produces almost one liter of oil. To convert that amount takes about 1 kilowatt of electricity, which costs approximately 20 cents.

Now, oil from plastic to fuel your cars

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Indian man's invention helps cut down pollution from diesel generators

This is a good example of why necessity is the mother of invention.

Virendra's workshop, which started in 1981 by manufacturing iron gates and grills, situated just opposite a school. Since they face frequent power cuts, Virendra had to install a generator that resulted in noise and air pollution, which affected school children and neighbors. "It was difficult to move to a new location for me so I started thinking about ways to control this pollution," says Virendra. 

This was when he thought about something that could control the pollution and finally he come up with a device that can be attached to a generator or other diesel engines to minimize the noise and smoke, reports Manu A B from Rediff Business. It took him six years of experiments to build the first device. Initially, what started as a mission to carry out his work smoothly, turned into a successful innovation with universal appeal and value.

A patented device, it allows carbon deposits to get collected periodically. This can be reused as raw material for shoe polish and local small-scale industry units. Virendra Kumar is now fine-tuning the device to further reduce noise emanating from engines. His next project is a pollution control device for four-wheelers.

Carbon menace? Indian man's device to help the world go green

Lunartic » Cool Hubless Rear Wheel Bike

New concept bike, has a neat design. Wonder how stable it will be in real world usage.



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Opt out of the Yellow Pages

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Save some trees by opting out of receiving the Yellow Pages.

You can begin the process here » http://www.yellowpagesoptout.com/

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The Story of Cosmetics

Watch "The Story of Cosmetics" your health may depend it.



http://storyofstuff.org/cosmetics/