The arc in the plasma plume within the vessel can be as high as 30,000 degrees Fahrenheit ... three times hotter than the surface of the Sun. When waste materials are subjected to the intensity of the energy transfer within the vessel, the excitation of the wastes' molecular bonds is so great that the waste materials' molecules break apart into their elemental components (atoms).
... and the biproducts?
The two principal byproducts of the Plasma Converter are a synthesis fuel gas called PCG ™ and an obsidian-like stone, which is non-toxic and non-leachable. Both are commodity products that offer the customer revenue potential. The PCG can be directly used for plant heating or cooling, to make electricity, or to desalinate water, as well as other uses. Additionally, the PCG can be used to make hydrogen or methanol. The obsidian-like stone can be sold to the construction and abrasives industries.
Keen! I want to clean out my garage, run it through this baby, and keep the stone as a souvenier! I wonder how much electricity the PCG can make - in other words, can this machine power itself with the waste it processes?
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I was about to ask that last question myself. Making a plasma arc that hot would take a lot of energy. How much of a return would you get on your investment...beyond saving landfill space?
Hmm...when people got vaporized by phasers or disruptors in Star Trek they never left behind obsidian-like stones! That would have been cool if they had, though. Then Klingons could have arrowhead collections!
Yeah, that would have been pretty funny. Imagine the newly hired red-shirt arriving to his assigned bed for the first time.
RedShirt: Say, what's this jar of obsidian stones for?
Spock: Those stones are the previous ....
Kirk: [interrupting Spock] THOSE are... for decoration,... and... you... will... respect them!
Reduction of landfill space AND those cool stones. I wonder if you could process dead people this way. Instead of an urn, you'd have a little stone to remember them by. You could make a rock garden with your ancestors!
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