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Not sure whether this is TDP too but…

There's a commercial plant in the UK that's going to come online this year that breaks down plastics into hydrogen, methane and other gases.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/20/how-plas...



Sounds interesting, but that looks like straight gasification. You have an old “gasworks” site in your city? Before natural gas they used to gasify coal to run the street lamps. Nasty stuff full of carbon monoxide. Lots of soil remediation to clean them up afterward too. The one in Seattle was cleaned up, failed inspections, was closed down and cleaned up a second time. They made it into a park which still seems nuts to me.


I've been to Gasworks Park and I agree, it's a strange idea. Nice park though.

Reminds me of the "cookie dough" smell in Palo Alto: http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20130404/in-search-of-...

> So it was that while running, but not so much as to force my body into open rebellion, I noticed something odd. When I was heading down the gently sloping hill on Peter Coutts Road towards Stanford Avenue, I turned right as usual to head back home, passed along the edge of a grassy area, and smelled...cookies. But not really cookies. Raw cookie dough. Outside.




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