Cheap https://refractor.io/tag/cheap/ Cheap en-AU Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:12:18 GMT Envion Oil Generator turns plastic waste into oil https://refractor.io/environment/envion-oil-generator-turns-plastic-waste-into-oil/ The Envion Oil Generator, a new technology that converts plastic waste into oil, at the Montgomery County Waste Transfer Station

The ground-breaking Envion Oil Generator (EOG) gave its first public performance at the Montgomery County Solid Waste Transfer Station in Derwood, Maryland recently. The EOG can be fed almost any petroleum-based waste plastic and will convert it into synthetic light to medium oil for less than USD$10 per barrel. As with crude oil, the synthetic oil can then be processed into commercial fuels or even back into plastic.

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]]> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:12:18 GMT https://refractor.io/environment/envion-oil-generator-turns-plastic-waste-into-oil/ Paul Ridden New solar battery technology offers household power at 2.5c per kWh https://refractor.io/environment/new-solar-battery-technology-offers-household-power-at-2-5c-per-kwh/ One of the smaller prototypes of the Ceramatec NaSICON solar batteries (Photo: Ceramatec)

As part of man's ongoing quest to extract the greatest benefits from solar power, Salt Lake City-based company Ceramatec, the R&D arm of CoorsTek, has made what it believes to be a massive breakthrough in batteries for storing energy harnessed from the sun. The company is making impressive inroads on the prototype of a deep storage battery, the size of a small refrigerator, that safely operates at room temperature, consists of everyday materials, and can output household power at 2.5c per kWh. What’s more, Ceramatec says it will be cheap to purchase.

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]]> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:14:57 GMT https://refractor.io/environment/new-solar-battery-technology-offers-household-power-at-2-5c-per-kwh/ Jeff Salton