Who wants to make a fortune?

So there's this stuff called plastic and I predict it will be the new gold in the coming decades. With limited oil supplies there is going to be a point in the near future when we run out of this ancient fossil. Plastic is everywhere, and I mean everywhere. The first piece of plastic was molded out of cellulose in 1862 and it has developed from natural plastic materials (e.g., chewing gum, shellac) to chemically modified natural materials (e.g., rubber, nitrocellulose, collagen, galalite) and finally to completely synthetic molecules (e.g., bakelite, epoxy, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene). The petroleum-to-plastics process consists of drilling and transporting the petroleum to a refinery where the crude oil and natural gas are refined into ethane, propane, and other petrochemical products such as gasoline. Ethane and propane are "cracked" into ethylene and propylene, using high-temperature furnaces. Catalyst is combined with ethylene or propylene in a reactor, resulting in a polymer that's fed to an extruder where it is melted, cooled and pelletized into generic pellets that can be molded by customer manufacturers by using processes such as extrusion, injection molding, blow molding, etc.

Enough jabber, this is how we make out fortune. Envion has created a generator that extracts the hydrocarbons embedded in plastic waste without the use of a catalyst. This reactor utilizes a heating system that converts plastic into oil through low temperature thermal cracking in a vacuum. It can produce light oil, medium oil, and emulsified oil.

One ton of plastic garbage can be converted into 3-6 barrels of fuel at $10 per barrel to process, while crude oil sells for $70 a barrel. Profit. now, I have a bunch of plastic bags laying around, I could search for some old legos, a ton of water bottles. The hard truth is, plastic is necessary for the way we live our lives. When we run out we'll realise the full value of this resource. People will be searching everywhere for lost plastic in basements, attics, landfills, ect. These 'plastic diggers' could exchange the plastic at recycling centers which may provide jobs for communities. The value of plastic would vary depending on the rarity, but with the oil forming generator we could keep all of our plastic resources in use instead of inside birds bellies and EVERYTHING else.

Yes, we are turning into plastic, there are massive buildups of plastic garbage caught in the gyres in the middle of the oceans twice the size of Texas. Scary, yes. Profitable? This sort of cleanup would be a extraordinary struggle, but the amount of free plastic waiting to be recycled is a fortune! Now I just need some joint investors to fund my venture and we'll even be able to clean up the environment. How's about that?

Wednesday is a Debate Recap

So, Just so you know- I'm in favor of 'That One '08!'


When McCain loses, he will have contributed to his own downfall by failing to live up to his personal standard of honor (nytimes.com)

Is McCain’s homeowner bailout proposal new? Nope. Biden proposed it in the VP debate. (donklephant.com)

McCain calls Obama 'that one' in debate (huffingtonpost.com)

Worse Than "That One": What made McCain assume that a young black questioner wouldn't know (esp. after weeks of media coverage) about Fannie and Freddie? (huffingtonpost.com)

WSJ: McCain will slash Medicaid/Medicare benefits by $1.3 trillion. (donklephant.com)

McCain Fled The Debate Within Minutes While Obama Stayed Around To Talk To Voters And Answer More Questions, That's Class For You. (debatetherace08.com)

Obama won, hands down (americablog.com)

Obama: Health Care Should Be A Right (polfeeds.com)

Class act John McCain refuses to shake Obama's hand. (ca.youtube.com)

Secret Service taking "Kill Him" remark very seriously, considers it a threat on the life of a Presidential Candidate. Stay classy, Palin! (dailykos.com)

John McCain wasn't just TIED to the Keating Five, he was ONE of the Keating Five (talkingpointsmemo.com)

Palin palling around with secessionists: Does Sarah secretly hate America? (americablog.com)

What I Learned At The Sarah Palin Rally Before They Threw Me Out! "Sarah Palin is George W. Bush in a dress." (huffingtonpost.com)

Anne Robinson (The Weakest Link), about Sarah Palin: "It's depressing that she exists, never mind that she winks" (guardian.co.uk)

"Palin doesn't actually believe the rehearsed smears she's telling about Obama, but she does believe that she is morally right in lying. " (huffingtonpost.com)

Palin's mob turned on a black journalist, yelled "racial epithets" while telling him to "sit down, boy." (americablog.com)

With shouts of "Kill Him" and "Terrorist", Is Palin sowing the seeds of hatred that will lead to the possible assassination of Obama if he gets elected? (washingtonpost.com)

"I'm Sarah Palin and I Support the 2008 Alaska Independence Party"(youtube.com)

Here's a letter Obama wrote to Bernake and Paulson in March 2007. Isn't it great to have a candidate who actually understands economics? (andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com)

I’m tired of him having to defend his name while these assholes are trying to dismantle the Republic. Barack Hussein Obama. 44th President of the USA. Get used to it. (dailykos.com)

Tuesday is preparing for Presidential debate #2

Hello, and welcome. The week has rolled out at a medium pace so far, Olbermann tore Palin a new one last night and the DOW has been under 10K since yesterday. In other news . . .



|politics|

Tonight's debate is in McCain's favorite style (hosted.ap.org)

Barack Obama has risen to his highest-ever level in both our electoral college and popular vote projections (fivethirtyeight.com)

Olbermann's special comment on Palin (msnbc.msn.com)

The entire Keating Economics documentary (created and endorsed by the Obama Campaign) is finally available for download. Please spread the news. Obama is finally fighting. (keatingeconomics.com)

Krugman: I agree: the McCain plan would do for health care what deregulation has done for banking. And I’m terrified. (nytimes.com)

McCain: Party Boy (creatingprogress.blogspot.com)

Soon, the 43-year-old naval attache and his 25-year-old sweetheart were engaged. There was only one complication: McCain was still married. (washingtonpost.com)

The Make Believe Maverick: A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty (rollingstone.com)

Al Franken exposes O'Reilly altering Bidin interview vid to slander him (youtube.com)

Sarah Palin's Almost Creepy Ambition Should Worry McCain (alternet.org)

I am a 42 year old ex-Republican. I have decided this year that I can no longer sit on my ass. Never in my wildest dreams did I foresee being taken to tears. (dailykos.com)

Secret Bush Administration Plan to Suspend US Constitution (globalresearch.ca)

|world news|

Iceland. Sept 5/08 : UN's Best Country to Live '07. Oct 5/08: Food hoarding begins, Currency rated just above Zimbabwe (guardian.co.uk)

Iceland gets a 4billion euro loan from Russia. (reuters.com)

One of the oldest known bibles to be digitised and translated for all - significant departures from modern texts. (news.bbc.co.uk)

Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who found the virus that causes cervical cancer were awarded the 2008 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology (news.yahoo.com)

U.S. Security Firm Indicted for Fraud in Afghanistan (alternet.org)

(Russia) "You won't buy our version of the war in Georgia? Fine, we won't buy your version of 9/11." (weeklystandard.com)

Iran says it forced down Western plane. U.S. denies initial Iranian reports that aircraft was American (msnbc.msn.com)

China abruptly cancelled military agreements with U.S. in protest to US-Taiwan arms deal (telegraph.co.uk)

|economics|

Dow Dives 785 Points (thestreet.com)

1929 crisis verses 2008 crisis [pic] (aztlan.net)

Fed to buy massive amounts of short-term debts (hosted.ap.org)

60 Minutes: Wall Street's Shadow Market (youtube.com)

As leverage vanishes, so does speculation: Commodities headed for biggest annual decline since 2001 (bloomberg.com)

Financial Dictatorship Comes to America (lewrockwell.com)

The Federal Reserve act was unconstitutional, felonious, and treasonous from its first moment of existence -- and remains exactly that today. (populistamerica.com)

The depression of 1929 is the wrong model for the current economic crisis: Try the Panic of 1873 (chronicle.com)

The Wall Street 'Bailout' is a Ponzi "Pyramid Scheme" Designed to Give the Banksters Who Created the Bad Debt All Their Money Back! (newworldrhinos.blogspot.com)

Failure This Big Wasn't Born Yesterday - Michele Singletary - read, "Wall Street Versus America: A Muckraking Look at the Thieves, Fakers, and Charlatans Who Are Ripping You Off" (washingtonpost.com)

|environment|

How Local Governments Are Standing in the Way of Clean Energy: Too often, people who want to install clean, efficient solar and wind systems can find themselves drowning in a sea of red tape (alternet.org)

Global warming in pictures - Seeing may lead to believing. (cnn.com)

Scientists have come up with a method for creating extremely thin solar cells that can be combined in flexible arrays. (nytimes.com)

Researchers at Clemson University have created a biodegradable faux-plastic bottle. It's made from sugar and fiber. (greendaily.com)

Ancient Peru pyramid spotted by satellite: 9,000-square-mile structure?! (msnbc.msn.com)

New California Law Protects Farms Against Genetic Engineering Threats: Monsanto's intimidation tactics no longer legal (organicconsumers.org)

Of the 5,487 mammals on Earth 1,141 are known to be facing extinction. (telegraph.co.uk)

It's time to build the green-collar economy (gristmill.grist.org)

|science|

Asteroid to streak across southern Europe and explode in a 1-kiloton blast over the Sudan on Oct. 7th (activeboard.com)

Scientists Discover Fish in Act of Evolution in Africa’s Greatest Lake (ecoworldly.com)

From 2010 to 2015, the U.S. will have no human space flight capacity of its own, and will rely on Russia to carry its astronauts to space (nytimes.com)

A Saw that cuts through anything, but not your finger (launchwire.org)

'Deepest ever' living fish filmed. (news.bbc.co.uk)

Solar cell startup gets $1.2 billion dollars in orders. Their product looks more like a compact fluorescent lamp than a panel. (blog.wired.com)

Astronomers find a planet denser than lead (blogs.discovermagazine.com)

Nobels for spontaneous symmetry breaking in quantum field theory: Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, and Toshihide Maskawa (nobelprize.org)

Are There Not Enough Journals For All The Good Science Being Published? (scientificblogging.com)

|fun/geek|

Youtube took down the SNL VP debate. Here it is. (rightpundits.com)

Ever feel like the world is slowly becoming Orwellian, but there are too many stupid people to alter society's course, so we get dragged along as well? (zeitgeistmovie.com)

MY PUSSY'S SO HOT [gif] (i35.tinypic.com)

Pink Floyd - "Interstellar Overdrive" [live '66], Pt. 1 (youtube.com)

Awesome: Useable Wireless Earbuds (cordless-phones.uk.com)

100 skills every man (or woman) should know (with videos!) from Popular Mechanics (popularmechanics.com)