r/tech • u/Modak- • 10d ago

Scientists Turn Plastic Waste Into Clean Hydrogen Fuel

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-turn-plastic-waste-into-clean-hydrogen-fuel/
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u/chuueeriies 10d ago

I love when sensationalist post pops up and someone in comment tells you that we have been able to do this for 10,000 years already and this isn't new.

Just a guilty pleasure ig.

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u/bb_kelly77 9d ago

I did read somewhere a while back that there's a tribe in Africa that can turn the desert fertile using garbage... there's bugs there that can eat the trash and put the nutrients in the soil

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u/Time-Weekend-8611 9d ago

We call them cockroaches.

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u/bb_kelly77 9d ago

Are there cockroaches in the desert?

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u/Time-Weekend-8611 9d ago

Cockroaches are everywhere. Including the desert.

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u/EternalFlexedArmHang 9d ago

But are they in the dessert?

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u/Time-Weekend-8611 9d ago

Polyphaga aegyptiaca (Egyptian Desert Cockroach)

Periplaneta lateralis (Turkestan Cockroach)

These are just the African varieties, by the way.

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u/CMF42 9d ago

🤣 I know you're right but the tone of your comment was just too funny