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How is coal converted to oil and gasoline? — Al, S Prairie, Wash.
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What’s the best was to clean a driveway with oil on it?
by Marshall Brain | August 26, 2010
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What’s the best was to clean a driveway with oil on it? — William, Detroit, Mich.
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When watching this video, it seems like one of those too-good-to-be-true schemes. A simple machine takes discarded plastic and easily turns it into usable oil:…
It looks a little like one of those scam videos that say, “power your HDTV with an orange” or “make a glow stick from Mountain Dew”.
But apparently it is real…
This week on TechStuff, Chris and I focused on two different types of mining. Monday’s show was about the search for oil and the technology that makes it possible for us to retrieve it. On Wednesday, we talked about what you need to do to get data from a crashed hard drive. We didn’t think of the thematic connection when we recorded the shows but I’m going to pretend this was on purpose.
Jonathan and Chris highlight the simple and sophisticated technologies that are used for land-based and offshore oil drilling and extraction in this episode.
I was reading an article about what Earth will look like in 5,000 years by Mr. Robert Lamb, arguably the best writer to inhabit a cubicle here at HowStuffWorks.com, and, as is the way things go recently, I noticed that the new information I found within the article coincided with other information I’d learned recently.
I would recommend taking the time to read Lamb’s article; it’s only one page, but it packs a lot of info.
This week on TechStuff, Chris and I talked about two very different topics: fuel cell technology and privacy issues on Facebook. While the two aren’t directly connected, both subjects tie in to current events.
The recent oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has brought new attention to our dependence upon oil. Are there other fuels just as good — or even better — than oil? What about fuel cells?
What happens when crude oil mixes with water? Here’s a video that nicely demonstrates the problem, and also shows why crude oil is such a problem for birds…
The following video is fascinating – it demonstrates the use of microbes in Texas to clean up oil floating on the ocean as well as oil that has contaminated marshes and wetlands…
Envion Oil Generator Turns Plastic Into Fuel – “A proprietary breakthrough technology developed and perfected over the past 15 years, the Envion Oil Generator is the first plastic waste to oil conversion platform of its kind. Utilizing plastic as feedstock, the unit employs a groundbreaking process that produces light oil, medium oil, and emulsified oil [...]
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