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Cities Powered by Their Own Trash

Municipal Plastic as Resilience Infrastructure

A systems-level proposal for municipal plastic-to-fuel resilience grids: continuous pyrolysis plants, strategic buried fuel reserves, and neighborhood-scale generation networks that keep power on when the grid fails. A city of 100,000 generates enough plastic waste for 200+ days of emergency generation runtime. The engineering exists. The will doesn't yet.

Home-Scale Solar Pyrolysis

Turning Household Plastic into Fuel

A detailed engineering breakdown of how the solar thermal concentration principles behind large-scale plastic-to-fuel systems can be miniaturized for household use: parabolic dish concentrator, sealed pyrolysis reactor, condensation train, zeolite catalyst upgrade, and realistic fuel yield. Designed to be built for under $1,500 in components.