The Case for Terrestrial (a.k.a. Nuclear) Energy to Use Our Plastic Waste Efficiently

We have a very new program at PPi Technologies Global and at all of our 10 divisions.

Called SECAMP an acronym for:

Sustainable
Environmental
Conscious
Approach to
Machine and
Pouch manufacturing


This means we try to use less energy and thus reduce our carbon emission footprint for all the products we touch.

For machines, we reduce the air pressure required, we do not use painted parts and we try to use as many common components as possible. Our patented ControlSmart™ system sends an e-mail when ever the data entered is breached and in “live time” our customer can stop and access and correct the problem. This reduces product loss and also ensures the customer does it once and right!

In pouch manufacturing, our roto-gravure cylinders can be used again, our pouch laminations are all earth friendly and we use printing inks that meet FDA specifications.

Our total weight for the pouch and spout fitments for our 250ml / 6oz Chilling Rocks™ Natural Water pouches weigh less than their bottle counterparts and thus energy to handle them is well below that of rigid packaging.

After use, the pouches can be incinerated for energy rather than for recycling and or landfills. This “Oil to Oil” approach is not often understood by our customers.

Back to my energy topic, I am a firm believer in nuclear energy. There are only 103 operating nuclear reactors in the USA. Very few people realize that the steel required to make the reactor is only available from Japanese steel mills and they now have several years of back order position.

In America, we are still trapped in the Three Mile Island mentality. Little do people realize that with oil at $100 a barrel and will go higher, that nuclear energy promises less carbon emissions and also oil dependence!

The sun provides almost all of our energy. Remember plant photosynthesis taught at school, which showed plants start the energy storage process. Note, when our pouches are heated, the stored energy in the carbon chains is released. This heat energy can break down other carbon chains and now you have fire/heat. Today we use coal [pollutant] and we hope pouches will assist in providing much needed energy.

With the USA using oil for 40% of our energy needs we have to find a long lasting safe and efficient replacement as soon as possible.

When Albert Einstein told President Roosevelt that nuclear energy had been discovered, it was the first time mankind was no longer dependent on the sun.

The figures are staggering for using and changing ASAP to nuclear energy.

A 1,000 megawatt coal plant needs 110 railroad cars loaded with 20 tones of coal every 5 days. Coal produces 40% of our greenhouse gases and 20% of the world's carbon emissions. Plastic has a higher calorific value than coal. When you compare the above data to a 1,000 megawatt reactor, it only needs a train every two years to take away the mildly radio active rods that can be handed with gloves. The rods last six years. There is no exhaust, no sulphur sludge to be carted away every hour, no releases into the environment. There is no air, water or ground pollution.

Remember nuclear reactors cannot explode and the one dangerous isotope makes up only 7/10ths of a percent of the world's uranium. You need enriched uranium and so a reactor cannot explode.

What can occur is 'melt down' and can be contained within the reactor vessel. At Three Mile Island no one knew what was going on. Fear of the unknown led to this disastrous position..

Chernobyl accident was due to unstable design and that type of reactor is not used in the USA.

Our goal should be to incinerate plastics where we can and reduce coal usage; we should change our 50% electricity from coal dependence to 60% from nuclear energy and thus reduce all dependence on foreign oil.

A better use for coal is the South African SASOL process that provides for oil and plastics production rather than as an incinerating for electrical solution.

We need to dominate the industry we built and not let other countries take this away from us. Think clean, safe, no dependence on outside oil with safe terrestrial (nuclear) energy.

My thanks to William Tucker, who first interested me in this simple energy solution and for more information, suggest you read his latest book, “Terrestrial Energy: How a Nuclear-Solar Alliance can Rescue the Planet.”