Recycle the Energy
May 26, 2009 | 02:19 PM

Most plastics are extensive hydrocarbon chains. If used as a source of heat (burning), they would give off CO2 and H2O. Since the oceans are the worlds CO2 sink, scrubbing the CO2 produced with ocean water should increase the production of phytoplankton, the basis of most of the oceans food chain. Oxygen consumed by the process should be replaced by the O2 produced by the phytoplankton, or sunlight could be used to reduce ocean water to O2 and H2, and H2 used for fuel cells.

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