Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Plasic to gasoline and wood to diesel is a thing.
About 70% of plastic is trashed.
This route could provide about $250B of fuel worldwide. That's enough for your car - and millions of others.
Actually, it's only 4 million barrels per day equivalent. Only about four percent of all liquid fuels worldwide. chatgpt.com/share/69598a22-ec4c-8010-a061-53998136428f
I'd be willing to pay up to $150k for a scalable, 5000 gallon per year liquid fuel production system from wood and plastic waste. This investment can produce $250B of fuel worldwide if scaled, so more than a 1,000,000 ROI is not bad.
Now add biomass in the USA alone, where excess land (roadsides, lawns, sustainable forestry) are applied - and you have 250 billion liters of additional fuel according to the 2023 Billion Ton Report from the US government. That would make the above total 1/2 a trillion in value.
That's just another example of open source economics.
More notes at wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Pyrolysis_with_Liberty
Full transcript here - docs.google.com/document/d/1TTHhoiQWRyaDygZ-rTuHs6fj7oyOM4FjLgHf5hH2Nuc/edit?tab=t.o7xa5792q2dw
Plasic to gasoline and wood to diesel is a thing.
About 70% of plastic is trashed.
This route could provide about $250B of fuel worldwide. That's enough for your car - and millions of others.
Actually, it's only 4 million barrels per day equivalent. Only about four percent of all liquid fuels worldwide. chatgpt.com/share/69598a22-ec4c-8010-a061-53998136428f
I'd be willing to pay up to $150k for a scalable, 5000 gallon per year liquid fuel production system from wood and plastic waste. This investment can produce $250B of fuel worldwide if scaled, so more than a 1,000,000 ROI is not bad.
Now add biomass in the USA alone, where excess land (roadsides, lawns, sustainable forestry) are applied - and you have 250 billion liters of additional fuel according to the 2023 Billion Ton Report from the US government. That would make the above total 1/2 a trillion in value.
That's just another example of open source economics.
More notes at wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Pyrolysis_with_Liberty
Full transcript here - docs.google.com/document/d/1TTHhoiQWRyaDygZ-rTuHs6fj7oyOM4FjLgHf5hH2Nuc/edit?tab=t.o7xa5792q2dw
