New alternative energy from solid waste plastics

Generation of electrical energy from imported fossil fuels is subject to the price fluctuations of the global marketplace and, thus, constitutes a major expense in its distribution to the end users. Even with the current low prices for fuel, residents and businesses in the United States pay a significant price for their utilities, if not higher than many other countries in the world. Emissions from the evaporation and combustion of these traditional fossil fuels contribute to a range of environmental and health problems, causing poor air quality, and emitting greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming. Alternative fuel created from domestic sources has been proposed as a solution to these problems, and many alternative fuels are being developed based on solar, wind, biomass, hydropower, fuel cell, geothermal, etc. Natural State Research, Inc. (NSR) has developed a new alternative hydrocarbon fuel which is produced from abundant waste plastic materials. The existing NSR process efficiently converts waste plastics into a reliable liquid fuel. NSR has demonstrated the feasibility of producing this fuel at the laboratory scale and a pilot plant is being built to scale-up this process. Preliminary tests in the NSR laboratory show comparable electricity generation from NSR fuel when compared to that from the commercially available gasoline with octane number 87 (gasoline-87).