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[โ€“] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What's the net carbon emission and energy use? Pyrolysis is an energy-intensive process.

This is awful. Of you're going to convert trash to energy, use a high temperature trash incinerator thermoelectric plant, much more efficient.