Sometimes I wonder where all the really good inventions are. Breakthroughs like the telephone, or light bulbs. Things that could change the world. This may just be one of them.
This device, dubbed the Plasma Converter, uses plasma to rip waste apart at the molecular level. The benefits of this are extensive. Landfills? Who needs ‘em? Looking for a clean, reproducable source of ethanol or natural gas? Here you go. It even helps people in the bathroom tile manufacturing business! 
The by-products are an obsidian-like glass used as a raw material for numerous applications, including bathroom tiles and high-strength asphalt, and a synthesis gas, or “syngas”—a mixture of primarily hydrogen and carbon monoxide that can be converted into a variety of marketable fuels, including ethanol, natural gas and hydrogen. The only type of waste that it cannot break down is nuclear waste since the radiation is already in its natural atomic state.
[tags]environment, garbage, plasma, inventions, Star Trek[/tags]
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