Unthreaded
Dellers has made a point about these 'climate bullies' as has Anthony Watts - I reckon that they are Pterodactyl meat.
Kleinefeldmaus
Golf Charlie: here's another High Wycombe WW2 factoid. Wycombe Abbey school was requisitioned to serve as the HQ of the US 8th Air Force.
mikeh
@Tomo I'm guessing you could just burn waste oil in a ship's engine as bunker fuel
from a .gov.uk website
Waste Waste management licensing exemptions
A Paragraph 8 exemption allows the burning of waste oil as a fuel in an engine of an aircraft, hovercraft, mechanically propelled vehicle, railway locomotive, ship or other vessel.
Quantity
The total amount of waste oil burned in one hour in a single engine must not exceed 2,500 litres.
stewgreen
Ooooh… Now, this is interesting.
Who would have thought there could be no such thing as “greenhouse effect,” eh?
For those who insist that, for the pressure of the atmosphere to be able to affect the temperatures, you need vertical movement (or some such ideas, anyway), as it is compression that generates the heat, try to remember that experiment that you did at school, where a weighted wire slices through a block of ice, without cutting it into two. Surely, the same principle is at work, there, too?
Radical Rodent
stewgreen
A pound to a pinch of whatever any innovative waste recycling scheme will founder once the poisonous idiots of the Environment Agency weigh in.
A few years back I looked with some serious financial sponsors at "tyres to diesel" - the tosspots at the EA made up all sorts of obstructive stuff .... just because they didn't like it from the get-go. It wasn't a matter of "how can we do this safely?" - it was "what can we do to stop it?".
I recently discovered that in cahoots with DEFRA they've effectively banned waste oil burning - they never consulted anybody (least of all the several UK manufacturers of emissions compliant waste oil fueled heaters) and slapped a £3500 license fee on installations.
Since the Hull processors of plastics to fuel will be doing something akin to baking tyres to produce smaller polymers I'd wager that the regulatory hurdles will be considerable.... and re-positioned regularly at the whim of bureaucrats.
I think there are several outfits that load waste onto ships, sail out into international waters do what they want and sail back in again with the waste magically "recycled".
tomo
Little Emily : oxford company backed by Chinese is moving to convert waste plastic to fuel.
Somehow treating it so it becomes a petrol like liquid
Well, A couple of months ago I heard of another company doing the same plan ..
In Grimsby
stewgreen
Times Letter
A Cape Times article in April 1990 warned that the “City will run out of water in 17 years”.
and explained why : Mismanagement , failure to respond to poulation growth are far more to blame than drought
Blog mentions
stewgreen
Paul Matthews
Times : Foreign Tankers are often dumping slicks of palm oil was into the sea, which when washed up can be covered in toxic bacteria which kills dogs.
stewgreen
Feb 5, 2018 at 6:01 PM tomo
If only there could be a tax on Green stupidity.
Motor garages etc have been using waste engine oil for 100 plus years to keep warm. If there is a cost to dispose of it, more will end up down the drains and being fly-tipped.
The Government get no tax from oil being used a second time, and lose revenue from the heating oil they have not sold. Local Authorities and water treatment companies will have to pay for the resultant mess, and pass charges onto local residents.
Oil may be deemed "waste oil" for various reasons, and may be oil intended to be used as a fuel. With careful filtering using domestic kitchen technology, it will run a diesel engine, but the exhaust gases might be a bit blue.