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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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[–] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"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

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

How much energy is used to do so and how much CO2 is released as part of the process?