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Device Creates Energy, Fuel, and Usable Compost from Trash

cleantechnica.com — The ReCyclone reduces landfill space up to 97 percent. Trash compacted by the ReCyclone can be used to create energy or compost material, and it can get more gold out of electronic devices than from a gold mine!

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  • YodaJones, on 08/13/2008, -0/+8Can it spin straw into gold like Rumpelstiltskin?
    • RockinAmadeus, on 08/14/2008, -1/+0No, but it can spin gold into wine.
    • TVarmy, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3Only for the cost of one baby. However, most dedicated digg users know many dumpsters will mistake burritos for infants, so try that before giving up a young'un. Should you want the burrito back, just recite the machine's serial number.
      • YodaJones, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Rumpelstiltskin will have your first born burrito, um...baby...um burrito, whatever, same thing.
  • kokoshka, on 08/13/2008, -0/+14And its only incredibly expensive!
    • learnmorepanda, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1How much is incredibly expensive?

      Did you ask for a quote?
  • life38, on 08/14/2008, -1/+9Not sure I feel comfortable in believing this one.
  • HHP2K, on 08/14/2008, -2/+5What does this statement mean exactly - "it can get more gold out of electronic devices than from a gold mine" ? Are we saying that this thing can get more results by eating trash instead of eating a gold mine, or that if you feed as much trash as you feed mine processing plants dirt and haulage from a mine, that you get a better return from the recyclone?

    I don't even think the first instance is possible, and the second is highly, highly unlikely.
    • chickentonight, on 08/14/2008, -0/+7The article clarifies - If you grind up a metric ton of circuit boards you get more gold than a metric ton of gold ore.
      • Nimphious, on 08/14/2008, -1/+2A metric ton of circuit boards is much larger than a metric ton of ore. In case they hadn't noticed, rock weighs more than plastic.
  • samoan27, on 08/14/2008, -0/+34Mr Fusion?
    • Abatrour, on 08/14/2008, -1/+3But will it create the 1.21 Gigawatts needed?
    • bluemist, on 08/14/2008, -1/+3Still seems far off of generating 1.21 Jigawatts though.
    • pauls88, on 08/14/2008, -0/+5I so wanted to make that comment

      well done to you sir.



      Save the Clock Tower
    • tru7h, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1My first thought was actually the scene where Doc pours out a can of soda into the Mr Fusion, and then proceeds to just throw in the can as well.
  • paradexes, on 08/14/2008, -1/+4Cool I will be driving my Delorean with a Mr Fusion device on it :D
    • ChocChunkOaties, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2More like - you'll be driving your Mr fusion with a Delorean inside it!
  • TheMachine1, on 08/14/2008, -1/+4Its just a big grinder. You have to get waste in a finely divided state for efficient pyrolysis reactions. Its likely not a significant enough advance to jusitfy an alternative energy story about it though.
  • oveedrx, on 08/14/2008, -2/+1I for one do not welcome our new Trash compacting overlords.. who is with me? get your pitchforks and torch's
  • Mongo84, on 08/14/2008, -0/+0sounds too good to be true, whats the downside?
  • kolinkoolface2, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1mr body massage machine.
  • MistaMatt90, on 08/14/2008, -1/+3Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.
  • DiscoLando, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Sampo!
  • jperras, on 08/14/2008, -0/+0Hmmm... I bet the mafia would like to get their hands on this.
  • ericdano, on 08/14/2008, -1/+1will it blend? That is the question.
  • RockinAmadeus, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Yeah? But will it blend?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLxq90xmYUs&feature ...
  • pauls88, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2It's your kids marty! somethings gotta be done about your kids!
  • JAGUART, on 08/14/2008, -0/+3Crow T. Robot: Science and Industry!
    Tom Servo: See big men sticking screw drivers into things - turning them - AND ADJUSTING THEM!
    Crow T. Robot: Build your very own Atom Storage Box!
    Mike: Bringing you state-of-the-art in soft-serve technology!
    Crow T. Robot: Removes lids off bottles and jars of all sizes - and it really, really works.
    • armakaryk, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2mike:"Contact Dr Jemima!"
    • TVarmy, on 08/14/2008, -0/+2Which one was this from? I totally want to "acquire" that episode!
  • pwnsey, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Environment+1
  • BluFire, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Finally
  • nonoice, on 08/14/2008, -2/+1Burried:
    Its a grinder, not a recycling machine.
    Title and digged article is completely offtopic
    [quote]
    The recyclone can take virtually any feedstock down to any usable size in one pass....
    [quote] (source: http://www.powermastercorp.com/index-3.html)

    I guess the digger that digged this had some stake in digging this (stocks possibly)
  • reginaldino, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1hmm. I love particulates.
  • phreak79, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Plus of course it would probably reduce the methane emitted into the atmosphere that helps to cause climate change.
  • JMellissa, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1I want a "Mr. Fusion" for my car now!
  • ElHeffe, on 08/14/2008, -0/+0Now if only we can send one out to our floating garbage island
  • Yage2006, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Too bad its total *****.
    /Buried
  • beauley, on 08/14/2008, -0/+1Most of us traditionally do a spring clean up to discard the accrued yearly waste from previous wintry storms. We seem to try outdoing the neighbors in the bag count we can fill, being oblivious of their true contents. Maybe we don’t realize the value and worth of it all.
    http://www.gomestic.com/Gardening/Gold-is-in-Those ...
    Gold is in Those Yard Clean-up Bags
  • evanman69, on 08/15/2008, -0/+0The beginning of a singularity?
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