Hi. This is beautiful from so many perspectives. People should and hopefully do know by now that the amount of garbage people produce is outrageous. Some products are packed in bags which are 3 times the size of the product they envelop. So, some kind of management of this garbage is a necessity. If there is a possibility that from the process of managing the garbage, something usable comes out, then of course, that's even better. That's what recycling is. The only ugly part, is that the comment section is filled with un-recyclable garbage. Individuals that have absolutely no environmental problem with the pollution from their vehicles, but suddenly have an environmental problem if someone implements a recycling process of garbage which emits a very considerably lower amount of pollution in comparison to their beloved four wheeled mobile pollution dispensers. They don't have ANY environmental problem with the polluting process of producing packages that turn into garbage, but they suddenly have an environmental problem with the recycling of garbage. In truth, they are the people who support one of the highest level of crookery, which is the one that sells for decades, overpriced fossil fuel and drains billions of people of their money. EXACTLY the same with the electrical vehicles production or with the photovoltaic panels production or even with the wind turbines. Those crooks always tried to scare the fools with the lie that these are the products that harm the environment. They've never had ANY problem with the production of any other products, noo, not even bullets or guns. No, because those products limit freedom, whereas recycling and solar panels and electrical vehicles grant more freedom, the freedom to be independent of what someone forces you to buy at the cost they set. Similarly with the forests. People used to use wood to keep their shelters warm and forests were forests. Now, people were _persuaded_ to choose alternatives to wood to make heat, but it's now when entire forests disappear. But you know what's nice? If you analyze them, even for just a bit, because of their life mentality and because they support what's against humanity and therefore against them very selves, they grow wider and fatter and filled with illnesses and diseases, and of course more than ever proned to blame everyone but themselves for their condition. But enough with that, garbage with garbage, and _humane_s with _humane_s. You, the one who still enjoys the beautiful picture of a better world which is instilled in your imagination, if you cannot recycle garbage, don't worry, but do you best to lower the amount of physical and mental garbage you produce, so you can better see that picture until it becomes reality. You wanted cars and honks and noise and concrete and wealth and riches, and now, seeing what they are, you want to feel the earth with your feet, you want to hear the nature, you want calmness and peace. A good sign of evolution this setting aside of what you thought you need and praising what you always had and never before embraced. Living in this world, we have the opportunity to shape it and it's shape is, always was and always will be, the reflection of what we care about. Cheers.
@@TheGipsyJourney You're welcome. In fact, it's my pleasure. It's just that I'm filled with such joy whenever I see people sharing with others what's truly beautiful - compasion, that I feel a need to do my best to support them somehow. I wish you all, only the best.
@@TheGipsyJourney Thank You but I miss the technical description of this system to produce Diesel. It would be very interesting. Many Greetings from Linz-Austria🇦🇹😎👍🐺 Europe!
I agree but hard to do when we see garbage trucks being dumped in the Amazon daily by the hundreds. Kind of like the speed limit. It only works if ppl follow it. How many do? Just like money, we all agree that a hundred dollar bill is worth a hundred bucks. Either the whole earth is on the same save the planet page or ??? If I'm using sun, wind for all my power needs living next to a coal burning power plant no matter how much I don't use or refuse to use by all means is moot when next door they're sending forever chemicals in the air to pollute the world cause the smog clouds don't just sit over USA they move all over. Plastic is the biggest joke their is. I prefer glass or cardboard. And most things can't be recycled at all. They put that symbol on all plastics even though only 30 percent can be truly recycled. Now we have to pay for earlier generations ignorance and greed.
The process of turning plastic to oil is called pyrolysis. Usually it is done in a pressurised oven and the excess gas can be used to heat the plastic in a closed loop system.
Lol, an anime character named Senku from Dr.Stone made one in his classroom just like you described, it's the only reason I know about, but never did I actually think it was possible, I didn't research it after watching the show, so this video was a surprise to me.
Do u have a video ur way sounds a million times better then this guys moonshine gas is made, I really want to do this if I can find a way to make it profitable I can setup shop in the Philippines and fix the problem of mess in the rivers because people would much rather bring there trash to be put in a system they can get a gas credit to use to purchase gas for then just throwing it in the river or on the ground. This could be a solution to the problems we have of being stupid humans and Africa or India all these places have kids picking through garbage if they could make gas they could be better off.
To me that "diesel" lit up fast and bright from a match. I've seen matches put out in diesel. Then again, apparently his diesel generator runs on it...🤔. Also, I'm glad he's cleaning up and making use of all the plastic we've allowed to float up on his beach, but the nasty smokey fire for his distillery isn't exactly environmentally friendly. Sorry about the complaints, just a couple of points...I did enjoy the video and am subscribing, ☺️
@@DustinMarsauthat definitely sounds like an improvement. I guess he's mostly working with what he has on hand, so I'm not faulting him ☺️. Maybe a rocket stove will wash up on the beach...? 😁
Yes but if that is implemented in a plant with 21st sentry filtration system might be a game changer. We always hear how many tones of plastic pollution are in the ocean and rivers and everywhere, if we return our plastic for a few cents, a diesel or fuel in general could be produced.
@@OnyxCat681 Not the case here.. in factories yes.. what do you think they use the plastic for after they colect it..to do diesel.. so from cleaning the land to poison the air.. so.. they solve nothing really.
Diesel doesn’t burn like that (it has to be heated and aspirated to burn). It probably closer to kerosine as a fraction. I hope you have a good exhaust system as that fuel would most likely contain lots of sulphur and chloride and other compounds found in plastics. In other words it would be very toxic/poisonous fumes.
so he should stop using his generator because it pollutes the air but what about the 133 million big trucks that are on the roads in America alone, we should spare this guy any of your lectures i would suggest
@@_RocketRooster "but what about...?" Nothing legally driving on any road in the western world is nearly as toxic as the gases this setup produces. It is completely fine if you don't care, it is completely fine if this guy decides to inhale that shit anyways, but it is also okay to point out the toxicity.
You have to be careful which plastics are used. Not Vinyl, PVC, ABS, Nor Styrene. All can produce poisons such as hydrogen cyanide and other nasties. Use only PE, HDPE, LDPE, we also use PET as most of the plastic seems to be bottles, some people don't as waxes can form in the pipe and cause a blockage if used motor oil isn't used or they don't have enough of the HDPE plastics for the waxes to dissolve into, other people may have better luck sourcing the good stuff better than we. Richer plastic piles to mine. :) These plastics are very low on sulfur, PVC has the chloride which will eat the metals of your system. There were still volatiles in the demo, normally they would be aired out before use or captured in a finer, secondary process.
I believe he was talking about the mans personal health. This wasn't exactly an industrial HSE production environment. More like DIY hippie scrapyard..
@Ry Low dude if cleaning the planet and making billion$$$ doing is being a prick sign me up. And sense you are of such little mind you just can’t bend yo head around it.
2x here and I wasn't even tempted to go to 2.5 because he was so dang engaging. Just checked 1x and he doesn't even sound stoned. He is an unusally good speaker.
If I burned plastic I'd be prevented from doing it because of the pollution I'm causing. He has a generator, water pumps, electricity, people to help him...... where is the courage which you admire? You can do the same if you can find an island that'll let you run a home-brew oil cracking plant. Burning plastic, carefully to control particulates and carcinogens would be worthy - but what he's doing is actually quite bad.
He & his wife are living from their hearts. That's called love for the planet & love for themselves. A coiple which we can all learn from should we choose to.
This guy should have a TH-cam channel of his own. Just his day-to-day life of running his little corner of paradise. He makes it sound like it’s simple but I guarantee you his every day life is a lot of hard work…at least it was a lot of hard work setting up a lot of the things that he does now.
@@ephraimlatson of course it's harder. It's much easier to work for somebody else get you money and don't bother. This is much more an entrepreneur. But clearly you have no plan of life by saying something like that. Sorry but fact.
@@sokol7215 lol.. Wrong. Waaay wrong. I have my own business so im speaking from experience. Something im sure you don't have. And working for myself is much easier and rewarding than working for someone else, where they dictate your time and energy. I make my own schedule and my own money. Get ya weight up lil hommie!
@@wyzurd And he still isn't. They are selling products to people around the world which involves an intricate network of shipping which is basically a connection to just about everyone on the planet, lol.
Good for him. It's nice to see people live on their own terms and passing their knowledge on. I like it. You can live any way that you find comfort. Sometimes it just takes a little while to get used to it.
This make me wonder, there are certain plastics recycling plants don't want to touch. wouldn't it be better to convert it to diesel rather than throwing it in landfill. Me = confused
@@fortuneflux Because crude oil is much cheaper. Politics just say nice slogans "we need to care about our planet" where in fact they are not interested.
@@fortuneflux Oh no.. The Globalist petroleum lobby cant let u make ur self sufficient fuel, they dont even let the countries that has oil to use oil according to their will.. They own all oil countries by sendimg economic hitman and giving them 5-10% of profits from thier own oil or sometimes not even that by planting a puppet Govt..
Thank you to everyone who will take the time to watch, like and comment🙏 It really helps the algorithm so I'm counting on you :) More people need to see that there are other ways we can live our life and help the environment ❤
Much respect on your efforts. Looks like its paying off. As in not needing to pay for everything to survive. Today its a depentant world. Without gov or big corp most would be lost.
Rather than burning wood why not use a low boiling fraction to feed a blast burner? As a note of caution: Depending on the feed plastic you could be getting some very toxic material that will make abnormally toxic exhaust when partially burnt in a simple Diesel engine. PP and PE will give mostly alkanes and alkenes (good) PS gives styrene and other aromatics (like benzene) (less good) polyesters, nylons and polyimides will give very complex distillates (possibly worse) PVC and PTFE will make hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acid respectively and chloro(fluoro)carbons (very bad). The tar left over in the still might be toxic.
Fractions are separated by boiling point so it you’d have to analyze output for this particular still , set up a more efficient reflux condenser and cut by temperature. A really interesting study would be looking at number of birth defects and cancers on the island over the next 40 years.
PTFE is pretty rare and you'd be able to identify it. Overheating of PTFE generates fumes of highly toxic PFIB and poses a serious health hazard to the human respiratory tract. PFIB is approximately ten times as toxic as phosgene. Inhalation of this gas can cause pulmonary edema, which can lead to death.
Chemist here. Yes, you are absolutely right. On the other hand: with a little bit of common knowledge, you can pretty well guess which product is which material and pick the "good" stuff. I believe a responsible person can do this properly, but a careless person will do lots of damage to themselves and the environment. And yes, the leftover tar is definitely toxic and needs proper disposal (costs!)
I’ve often wondered about returning plastics to its original source. I love the self-sustainable process and would love to go visit! Thank you for sharing this!!
Irony being that no one really wants to discuss the amount of non-renewable resource consumption and pollution causing technology that went in to getting this guy started and even keeping it maintained. Let's take a look at the amount of trees he cutdown (or took from the soil) just to grow his garden, to burn fuel (wood) in order to make more refined fuel so that he can run his fancy modern gadgets, like television, wifi, youtube, ice cream maker, etc. Let's try to imagine the fuel/resource consumption that goes into tourist like you going to visit, because after all, that is what this guy wants and needs to keep the "dream alive". Then let's calculate all the people who he's "inspiring" to do the same, and try to surmise how long these wild "virgin" islands will actually remain wild, and how long before there is eventually smog, a walmart and pharmacy on each one offering "free" vaccinations to all the inhabitants and their chickens etc. Sadly these "green peace" hippies who jet set around the globe looking for unadulterated places to set up their "off grid" society and shops are often killing our planet as fast or faster then the people who live in the cities. At least the city folk all learn how to live in small spaces, and the energy they consume actually comes to them much more efficiently than most of these "pioneers" who use massive amounts of resources in order for them to have some of the same luxuries.
@@Rick-the-Swift your off your rocker if you think these guys living off grid making there own fuel and soap are using more resources than the Amazon hungry masses in the city bro. Talk about reality check lol
@@Rick-the-Swift sadly no. Climate change is a scam. That's why people feel so emotional about it. Globalist programming so the billionaires can keep control over us. They don't want us decentralized and sustainably independent.
@@jontaylor917 the crazy thing is they complain about co2 and they're going to bam diesel and petrol but it's not really a ban they tax you if you go in the area . If I ban you from my house you can't pay me to get in.
I wish someone would take this operation on a grand scale such as on a barge that would travel world wide cleaning up the ocean and getting a fuel source to run the ship and some to sell. No telling how far this could go.
If I wasn't a worn out old man I would be doing many things now. Living off grid, inventing an electric car that will charge the batteries from the wheels turning, finding a way to use old tires as a road base, etc. But you only have so many beats in a heart and mine are coming to and end.So, you try to put your ideas out there and hope one comes true.
@Deacon of Biology You obviously don't know what a perpetual motion machine is. He is providing the heat and the plastic. All he is doing is removing stored energy from the plastic. As soon as the fire goes out or he stops putting in plastic the process stops. Nothing perpetual about it.
Repurposing things always interest me. You get so much satisfaction in it. Plus it makes the most of what you have You provide many good tips. Well done. God Bless. Be safe.
Man, you know what my dream game is? A voxel game that has physics and chemistry. Nearly a replica of our world in terms of dynamics and function, just without the worst part which would be permanent death and long term effects. So animals "evolve" to get their attributes and you can truly interact with the world. Though I don't know how the walking and hand/arm movement would be properly made (so that you can actually do complex stuff and the environment does stuff to you). Realistic science would take a dump on everything you do as well as the environment and animals (and robots)
@@midgetman4206 I have an idea too: if you want the most realistic game, shut down the computer and play reality - this game has been already developed.
@@yordanpopov7691 I do enjoy the real world. It's just that there stuff I can't do in it. Like how I will never be able to go inside of a B-17 and shoot its guns. I essentially want a simulator with game elements, it could do many different settings like imagine something like mad max or alternatively space exploration
Loved your video! I hope you do one just on the hydroponic "wicking" because I would like to see the process. The coconut soap looks fabulous! Great job.
This is the most badass thing. I thought using my old semi truck used oil to heat my barn was cool but taking trash and making fuel out of it is fucking Genius as hell.
I had a chemistry teacher telling us how his bike ran out of fuel and stating he's a chemist, he solves problems... so he turn plastic into fuel and made enough fuel to drive to the next gast station. This was back in the 90s. Shout out to Mr. Gilmore.
Derek y Ana viven su filosofia de vida amigable al medio ambiente y a su comunidad en Little Corn Island. Los felicito por su eficiencia y perseverancia!
you my new found friend are living my dream. i have been down the road of alternate fuels, ( used veg oil to run my diesel car for 10 yrs, make bio diesel, make soap, build solar cells from broken cells, recycle old 12v 200amh batteries, wind gensets from fisher n paykel washing motors, fresh water from sea water solar stills, water heaters using the insides of foil chip packets, used motor oil recycling/filtering, for heating and reuse as engine lube. keep up your life style.. i wish i had another chance to do this all over again in another lifestyle as yours....
he is still burning fuel, using machinery, etc. i highly doubt burning plastic like that is very good for the environment. other than bringing tech to an island and lowering his standards to live like this. what did he do that was so wonderful?
@@EgoBruiser well for a start he is self sufficient for the most part , and also removing masses of plastic that washes up on the beach and making use of it for a good purpose , , as for using machinery , i bet your not against the the massive tech and machinery industry that allows you to voice your opinion on the device and infrastructure you are now using and live your daily life , and i would also suggest the minimal amount of tech and machinery and resources this gentleman uses is probably a drop in the bucket to what 99.9 percent of what we wasteful average consumers use in the big smoke .
@@mikldude9376 lol...he is not self sufficient, he relies on others and even states so. where do you think his clothes and the machinery come from? hand blender for soap?...lol. anyways just calling it like it is, apparently this triggered you. you also didn't address at all the poisons that come out of those plastics he's burning and what is being done with them if anything. there are major environmental concerns here, but that doesn't seem to concern you.
Good to see y'all pulling it off. These couple lines of lyrics came strong to mind while watching the reflection of events... We are stardust, we are golden, we are caught in the devil's bargain, And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
It's a closed air enclosure. The damaging chimera are trapped in the tank and almost incinerated. So you could say in theory. It's okey but there is a chance that the could combust in the tank. So you have to be careful that the tank is completely and fully sealed and the piping and seals have no leaks
@@christianmolina7576how do you know what I want or what I can appreciate. I don't live with a roof over my head. If I had a choice I would like to live in the way of the video rather than in a house.
Really wonderful. Please show us how to make diesel. Like teaching school children. You know, diesel is so expensive in my country, ppl are gradually becoming poor due to this. And thanks for the invite.
Yes there is a demand because is the only way to break off from the corrupt system. We should all be self sustainable. So happy for you guys! keep going.
The system provides the plastic and demand for his coconut stuff doesnt it? There is a division of labor even on this island. Machines were built by someone else, the iron was once smelted etc.
@Thomas Lucas There are no cars here so there are no roads, only footpaths. The restaurants for the most part are on the other side of the island. Not too many people live out where we live.
A question for L B - How's that going for you? I assume you have cut all ties with the 'CORRUPT SYSTEM' and you're living a sustainable life without all the corruption of technology. Wait you're watching You Tube on some type of computer and commenting? That sounds really CORRUPTED to me. Kind of hard to take you serious, is it not.
Wow 👌 such a beautiful way to live wasting nothing . Well done 👏 and congratulations 🎊. Thanks for sharing 👍 greetings from England 🏴 Simon and Beth ❤❤❤
U should explain fuel process for those interested in learning how and what is needed to obtain it. I am one of those who want to know every detail of this system. Thank u!
@@shanelarriu907 Under the video is some contact information, or at derekplacelittlecornisland.com. If you go through the comment replies we went into more technical detail on several, there is also a thread at Energetic Forums that goes through the whole thing. Type 'plastic to diesel' and you'll find the thread. It is invaluable. The direct link is also listed below under the user Derek Sharp, I can't seem to add the direct link here.
Oil/green energy does not want you to know or attempt to distill and crack your own hydrocarbons, hell alcohol as a fuel has a giant racket built around it but it’s green!
@@sang3Eta If it combines with oxygen at very high temperatures. From what research told us, it is not a problem if the oxygen is evacuated before hand.
@@TheZmoney420 No, reason you cannot do this in most nations except in industrial situations. Is how toxic the pollution is. The fjord i live in, we cannot eat the fish still. From pollution that happend 50 years ago. Same pollution you get from burning plastic. Industry can clean it up much better than a man with a still at home ever can.. Thats why this is not allowed in most nations unless you can prove you clean it all up. Sure he reduced the microplastics in the sea. But he takes carbon from solid form and turning it into a gas. That is one of our current problems with global warming. Would be better off making that plastic into a polymer nature can break down, and not making a solid into gas. But you would not get energy then. Better to get some extra panels in that case.
Now this is how we're meant to live, much respect for what your doing, wish i could be a part of it! I'm 65 and still have the dream of living totally off grid and hopefully this is finally the year it becomes reality.
Yes, you can do it. We can't. for an advanced civilization such as ours you need farming on a large scale, mining on a large scale, drilling, lumbering etc. etc. A large civilization can not sustain itself for too long. Humans in a large civilization are going extinct but those who can live a self sufficient life style will not.
I'm 62, live in the Dallas, Texas area, and found myself living "off grid" this past week, but not intentionally! Due to the big ice storm and failure of the power grid, we had no electricity, no internet and many people had no running water. Lots of people were sleeping in their cars to keep warm, It was difficult to find a gas station that had fuel and the electricity to pump it. Fortunately, I was way more prepared than most, but still looking for better ways of doing things. This process of making fuel from plastic trash is intriguing, and I will be looking into it. I'm also thinking of building a simple diesel motor from melted aluminum cans.... It would be pretty cool to build a diesel generator and make my own fuel from trash....
@@ngenius2 So sorry to hear what happened. It’s going to happen all over the world, while they set up the new digital system. Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻 All the best to you.
I'd even go as far as to say blessed to be honest. That mindset, attitude, devotion, etc. A lot of people like myself have never really experienced that, no matter how hard we try. I'm not jealous though, just slightly green with envy lol
You’re probably not far off the mark. I’m going to bet a sawbuck this guy can cash in his trust fund if the situation goes south. He didn’t just paddle there by himself in a dinghy - the guy has serious money. He’s not saving the environment - he’s exploiting the land & polluting like crazy. This is one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in a long time.
Wish this discussion had stuck to personal plastic distillation (?) pros, cons, concerns and ideas. It would have been such a good resource for anyone considering trying this out.
wow!!! i love your work...you,your wife and the whole community participating in your ideas is what the world needs..i just hope that it will not be too late for humanity to embrace the neccessary changes and adaptation the way you did...
I completely agree with everything that you’re doing I admire so much being able to reuse what actually is not waste. Here’s where the cynic in me comes out and lays the foundation of truth. This method and way of life does not support today’s level of consumerism. The saddest part about being a human in this day and age is it has become acceptable to turn your back on mother nature and to not have any accountability for what someone leaves behind. I feel that it is the speed of information that has quicken the pace of the personal interaction which has detached the synapse of connection with what is acceptable on a social basis, but what actually is unacceptable on a planetary understanding. Everybody knows that we’re better than this but nobody wants to take the time to do the things that need to be done. I recycle when I can I reuse so many things whenever given the chance and over the past three years I’ve been retaining plastic bottles and containers that I know I can put back in the use for holding things like hardware such as screws or bolts. Water bottles that were used once I fill them back up and stick them in the basement so if there’s an outage I have water. I think the western part of the world has become arrogant and ask as if they don’t need to care about resourcing and repurposing things because we have enough financial ability to not have to do that well regardless of if you can buy it it should be your responsibility to not be so gluttonous and deceitful against the planet. There’s no doubt in my mind that collectively we will force this planet to turn on us in order for it to save itself it will find away to kill a great majority of the humans on this planet but it seems that this wouldn’t be certainly the first time that the earth has cleansed itself of the parasites that have an inability to control the carbon atom. I test anyone of you reading my post to go to your local landfill take one single bag of trash or even just tell them that you wanna drive in and look around and see how you feel about being a human to me it’s disgusting and it’s saddening that just because we pay money to put our trash in bags and then those bags go into a container that it’s OK to just have that truck which picks up the bags drop it in a field which is piling up on top of itself and then mixed with dirt so that they can bury your food Reminence and tons of waste. This brings up the point of how it is important to try and donate things if given the opportunity. It’s always seemed interesting to me, actually more hilarious that we would not like to give away things of value to strangers and that we would expect some thing as far as a monetary compensation for the things that we’re not using right. But then when we aren’t able to sell the items we refer to directly disposing of them in the trash and this whole concept is mine boggling to me if you’re actually not going to be able to get anything of it but it actually may have value and usefulness to somebody else why not just give it away. See the first exhibit spoken about earlier where humans suck. Thanks for tagging along maybe this will resonate with somebody somewhere sometime. I think the last thing I’d like to mention is that I don’t think that everybody’s in capable of acting or participating in the necessity for resource management considering reclamation but most humans will not do anything unless forced to do so out of necessity. Simply enough we are pampered spoiled filth here in North America and I don’t wish harm on anyone but if an EMP blast came through and took out a large majority of the computer electronics or there was a malfunction amongst cell phone towers and the Wi-Fi capability it would become incredibly evident very quickly that we have become a culture dependent on the ability to look up some thing instantaneously but have no ability to retain the information that’s been given to us because there’s no experience attached to the information. I’m not saying that all people are idiots but there’s a vast majority out there that will not be able to function when shit hits the fan. Enjoy your information searching, isn’t that the reason we’re all here.
Que maravillosa y creativa vida sustentable nos muestran!!!....fantastico video que en tan solo unos minutos de pelicula sientes que te transporta a ese lugar y te deja tal sensación que quisieras ir a conocerlo.....asombroso, me deslumbró!! abrazos desde el Sur del mundo...TEMUCO- CHILE
This is a very, very good and positive video... VERY informative. The guy did quite well in presenting and speaking and the camera handling was rather professional. A+
I wonder what prevents someone doing this cleanup on a larger scale? Also curious about what the leftover product is and how easilly its disposed of.... anyone know?
@@graypistachio4141 he is... but it's also in a vaccum which makes me wonder if there is a way to scrub the gasses before they are released into the atmosphere if applied on a larger scale.
You can use tires as well to make the fuel, all you are doing is distilling the plastic and cooling it, the diesel comes off first where it is hottest then as the vapor cools further it becomes gasoline or at least close substitutes. This process is called pyrolysis and both the tires and plastics can be used together, no need to separate them.
I hope the people of south america watch this so that they can spend their living in their land rather going to america and became a worker..hope all people of this earth can be inspired of this video. A truly living and busy life in the other side of polluted city.great video 🖒
@Thomas Lucas You are a bad troll. The restaurants are 20 minutes on the other side of the island. We have a hotel consisting of five beach cabanas and dive shop, and you are welcome to stay with us learn and go diving. Look us up under Dereks Place, little Corn Island, Nicaragua or check out out instagram under the video. Don't conflate what we said how it was 20 years ago with today.
Great. The more people who show up from the city, the more trees can be cut down for farm fields, and all the timbers burned to make small amounts of diesel so the television and youtube can be watched in the evening. Yay Maybe if enough people from the city show up and bring enough modern tech, there can be a walmart. pharmacy, real gas station etc. Seriously, though, good luck leaving the city, but honestly I have to wonder if this is how Easter Island became a desert island?
There are a few folk doing this . Governments are crafty and create laws sadly ... if you want to nake one look up pyromancing distillery and hey presto nade from junk and a bit of build skill
One person doing it in the middle of nowhere is OK, but otherwise not sustainable=and very polluting. Sweden is producing energy by burning waste, but they are at least filtering the emissions.
Most of are too lazy and wanna be able to walk 5 minutes to the grocery store and buy our food ofc. Some of us are even worse, wont walk but would drive instead (ofc im not talking about the disabled, but those able bodied).
Huh? Recycling plastic for Fuel has been researched for the last 50 years, and it STILL not safe or efficient. "heavy metals and dioxins become concentrated in the resulting products making then unsuitable as fuels, because when combusted they are released to the environment." www.lowimpact.org/pyrolysis-not-solution-plastics-problem/
@@francismarion4450 Like I said... for one person doing it is perfectly OK. If the whole population of Bermuda starts doing it whoever, then they will all probably die from cancer or something.
This is “TRULY GENIUS”! I applaud you for your ingenuity and insight! I just stumbled onto this video and hope to find out how you built your “plastic to diesel” contraption as I’d like to build one myself! Nice job!
all of these videos are a dead end somehow. this design looks hella easy. Ive seen videos where people go trought lengths of trouble to fail at the end.
He cooks plastic and drives off the volatile chemicals leaving toxic heavy hydrocarbon 'ash'. It isn't rocket science.... in fact it is barely science. Stills like that are very popular in the backwoods in America - for making moonshine. The man isn't a genius he's a serial polluter. There is no way on EARTH he's be allowed to run that 'still' in anywhere that has environmental protection controls. How very ironic that he's being praised by the exact same people who would stop a safe, clean, well engineered oil refinery from being built to do much the same chemistry. Cracking/Fractional Distillation.
Then you will be part of a problem as well. Find a way of getting rid of plastic keeping the co2 locked inside....not turning it into diesel that adds to the problem.
I've thought about doing something like that: cracking plastic bottles into something like heating oil. Question: Doesn't the reactor create a horrible stench? What of the vapors produced?
No, the smell is not too bad. There is a unique smell associated with it but it is nothing like smelling a stinking outdoor burn pit. Don't throw in rubber sandals and things like that, stick with normal plastics like hdpe, ldpe, pp plastics, etc and things will be fine. The earlier forums said be careful and not put PET plastic in (like clear water bottles) because their molecular structure contains oxygen and they were afraid of explosions inside the reactor. Most of our fed plastic ends up being just that and has been fine. PET does seem to contain a lot of waxes so it is recommended to mix with other plastics and especially used motor oil. Budget Rent A Car in Managua gave us two barrels of used motor oil so Little Corn island has a lot of waste plastic about to be repurposed. All of the gas vapors are condensed into it's fuel fraction and what does not condense (butane, propane) is used as fuel and fed into the carburetor of a gasoline generator instead of gasoline. The exhaust scent from the gasoline genny is strangely sweet. I couldn't tell you why. The scent from the diesel engine is pretty normal, but I do mix this 'diesel' and normal diesel so it burns clean and not too heavy.
@Grim FPV Well, I prefer not to get it on me so be sure to wear gloves. So far so good. If people experiment, just be sure to use good quality metal containers with thick bottom and walls- not for pressure but for gradual corrosion making it thin and dangerous, especially the reactor. As mentioned before, the types of plastics used are important, some having chemical compositions that may be more toxic than others.
@@dereksplace1342 this blew my mind. I think this process should definitely be used more. There is definitely too much plastic waste in the world. And I am a garden-a-holic I absolutely loved seeing your garden. Give your wife a hug looks like she works hard on soap making. Much love n hugs guys.
@@JCC_1975 Thank you, she does, and I will pass on your regards. The garden was a bit mashed by the hurricanes but it is coming back, the video caught it at a good moment :)
@@dereksplace1342 , hi, I am from Congo and I would like to learn more about the all systems, is there any book you will recommend? There are plenty of plastic there and this will help to clear them and generate electricity. You and your wife are the best.
@@stevet5379 whatever the hell it is its working in his diesel generator right? thus you can say its diesel fuel, What else would he call it. It fuels his diesel engine , So its diesel fuel.. am i wrong ?
Awesome job, folks! For others reading these comments, they are not burning the plastic, they are heating (distilling) it until the molecular chains start coming apart changing it back to a form of petroleum oil. The temperature of the inside of the container regulates what type of fuel and other byproducts are produced. This is way cleaner than the plastic pollution of the earth. I believe it gives of little or no CO2 and even if it did, most plants need CO2 to live and give off oxygen.
Thanks a lot for watching and for making this point clear to the people who are being critical. The worst part is that people on the island even burn plastic to get rid of it! Which is far worse in my opinion
What kind of emissions are coming out of his plastic distillery? I'm guessing there are some nasty volatile organic compounds that are released into the atmosphere.
Can't be worst than contamination due to drilling...! In more the plastic everywhere becomes microparticules of plastic thatcare found everywhere in the world and in all living organism. By using this plastic you help decreasing this plastic pollution.
Probably a lot, but it's preferable to just leaving the plastic lying around on the beach, plus it's helping to run his business and help the locals. There's no doubt that recycling is highly energy intensive, but there's so much plastics and other stuff that should be recycled instead of going into landfill, we should make the most of it.
Would still be less than all the plastic damage, get a few good filters. More benefits to us and planet (except the most important $$ ) than its current, much worse, polluting disposal method.
@@mychkineplot7677 unfortunately it is worse, while plastics are bad for the environment as litter they are actually a carbon sink. Once processed from oil into plastic they hold onto that carbon for 100's of years, when he burns them for fuel they are releasing carbon that would have otherwise be trapped in the plastics. This opposed to bio fuels that take co2 already in the air convert that into fuels which is carbon neutral
To all the people on the post either bashing other forms of energy saying this is preferable, or that leaving the plastic lay about is bad.... take 10 minutes to look up the science before posting such an ignorant answer. It is people like you who have zero understanding of chemical reactions, pollution, or how to actually take care of probably anything. I am tired of people claiming they are working for a better environment while actively destroying it.
Absolutely amazing. Everything you are doing. Also I'm going to attempt to run my 41 year old campervan on your diesel. I'm currently planning on running on vegetable oil but I'd prefer to get rid of waste at the same time. Me and my family are hoping to move away from the UK and to Bulgaria to live a more quite and simple life. In the middle of nowhere. Once again great work and what an inspiration you are ❤️
He's distilling diesel and runs a generator to supplement his chinese made solar panels to run his laptop or whatever - All he's opted out of is paying bills. And he's achieving that by running an unlicenced, un-controlled mini oil refinery.
So Wesley’s Waters...probably some parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme. Maybe some Lemon grass and garlic too I bet. Maybe a nice strain of Alaskan Thunderfuck crossed up with some old school Maui Waui ...but that’s his business. Making fuel out of plastics though...that’s kinda like a super power ya know.✌🏼
Your just jealous your not Canadian. It is legal here. You can grow your own "Garden" so to speak. We only get summers to grow. Damn..he's growing year round.
For those that are interested in trying this process for themselves there is a very good thread at Energetic Forums. It's been around for a few year and is VERY helpful. Start from the beginning, the thread evolves as people experiment and learn. And be careful, use pipes of at least an inch in diameter, no leaks, and if you are not using an inert gas like nitrogen to displace the oxygen inside the reactor, start with a lower fire gradually making it hotter so the oxygen inside is pushed out by the gasses released from the melting plastics before it reaches a critical temperature. It doesn't take too long. And use a bubbler, when it bubbles you know it is working and it keeps oxygen from being drawn back into the system. There should not be much pressure in the system, it is an easy flow. Have fun! :-) This is the link-www.energeticforum.com/forum/energetic-forum-discussion/renewable-energy/7255-how-to-turn-plastic-waste-into-diesel-fuel-cheaply Thank you to all that give support with their good thoughts and to Gypsy Journey for helping to expose these ideas to many more people than we could have.
@Grim FPV I think you're right that it produces some bad chemicals as a side effect, but when you consider the bad effects they are offsetting by taking plastics out of the ocean and not burning commercially produced fuel, it's likely a net benefit to the environment. Commercial fuel is very dirty and energy consuming to extract, refine and deliver. Now I think if people in a high density city tried to do this at home, then local air pollution would be a more concerning issue. Hopefully the jungle and the sunlight break down most, if not all of the harmful emissions of this small operation. I do think that it will be creative people like this who eventually help to solve our waste and energy production problems through simple inventions.
This is simply melting and distilling the plastic to extract the last bit of fuel out of the plastic. Plastic is the byproduct of distilling crude into fuel like gasoline and diesel. The huge corporations don't distill it this far, because it is incredibly inefficient, a waste of huge amounts of energy/resources to extract this last, tiny little bit of fuel and also creates more pollution than it is worth. Also, plastic is a commodity that is needed Globally, so the byproduct of the fuel distillation is sold. If everybody started doing this, the amount of pollution generated would be tremendous. For one guy to do this on an island is not too bad (but not good), however, this does not scale up well without creating massive amounts of pollution. If you start doing this in your backyard, expect your neighbors to be calling the city when all the toxic fumes start blowing all over along with all the smoke from the fire. If you think, "Oh I will use propane", you will burn 10000 to 1 more propane to get that little bit of "diesel/gasoline". Toxic Fumes are not a joke.
Very impressive Derek and Anna , it's great to see you start with nothing and make something great. Keep up the great work , you are very inspirational.
Something great? He basiclly use plastic as a wood!! It like changing the form of plastic from solid to gas!! Imagine breath all those chemical thing to make plastic, straight to your lung💀
@@Daniel_0778 Hi, you live in an age of great deceit and much evil. This is why you are oblivious that wood and oil products are both hydrocarbons in various forms. That is, green renewable energy that began from photosynthesis. So despite what you thought you knew, burning wood smoke actually produces MORE toxins than plastic cracking Look up Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Benzo(a)pyrene.
Love your blog on planting and recycling plastic to make Diesel, I live in a village and would love to get advice on how to build this easy system, love to hear from you. From Mo
He's done nothing that most reasonably well educated Europeans couldn't do. He's cooking plastic in a still that most moonshiners would understand. He's got a diesel generator, a petrol water pump and solar panels - none of which he's made. What's he done except run some pipes to some troughs for irrigation? Why are you inspired?
@@occamraiser Don't be so cynical. We may not be the renaissance man that you are, but he's takes a lot less from the environment than 99% of the rest of humanity.
Hydrocarbons are carbon based just as we are. Pyrolysize us, carbon is left. Pyrolysize plastic, carbon is left. It is very little compared to the former mass before pyrolysis in the reactor. If there are volatiles still in, it can be used like BBQ briquettes (pyrolysized wood) for getting rid of yard waste or if there are no volatiles it's hard like rock and can be used as a cement aggregate, things like that.
@@dereksplace1342 so you seem pretty smart I got a question, by burning the plastic and the diesel aren’t they just polluting the atmosphere just as much as the plastic pollutes the surface, also making the carbon trapped in the plastics now harder to capture back into a manageable solid state to dispose of?
@@TheMilkyWill My smartness level is debatable but I'll try to answer your question from experience. The plastic isn't burned, it is melted, vaporized and collected after it condenses. What people like to call the 'fumes' is vaporized gas, the heaviest condensing into liquid, the lightest exiting the system and either being flared or passed into the carb of a gasoline engine. Both methods will catalyze the gasses through combustion into CO2, etc. Some people seem to hate co2 but in reality it is necessary for plants to grow. Indoor grow ops buy it by the tank so their plants have an increased growth rate.
Not only is this a dream come true, but he is the real deal. At the end he asked that if you want to help, then come dive with them and help clean up. Not once did he ask for money like all the other phony causes do. A REAL GEM this guy is, and his wife !
Diesel generator, condensers, pvc pipes, water pumps, washing machine, ice cream maker, matches, plastic containers, tools, buckets, cooking utensils, food and shelter, clothes. Impressive what you can build with just a hammer and sickle. Nice!
He is just a dude that wants to use all the benefits of the industrial world without giving anything back or sticking to rules defined by the community. At the end of the day he finds enough idiots that think what he does is sustainable or "green" and buy his overpriced garbage...
What a clever idea. A way to rid yourself from plastic wastes. Totally admirable lifestyle too. I’m envious.🤓👍🏼🌴 The coconut produce is the people’s way of saying, We replace that soap with this natural industry’s soap because it’s good and it helps the Island Producers, better for Islanders and not for big businesses chemical bastardisations.
It doesn't work, to make fuel from plastic you need to add some sort of oil, There was an Australian conman who said this 20 years ago, after 6 years he got busted for fraud receiving government grants
@@southerneruk It does work, and there are plenty of full size factories developing it. kleanindustries.com/waste-challenges-innovations/plastic-pyrolysis-recycling/spr-japan/
Your setup is the best I've seen. Two questions: 1. Is the burnt plastic easy to get out of the barrel or is it a big blob? 2. Do you have some plans for building? You got it all. Gas and diesel.
Stick with used cooking oil and producing your own bio-diesel. Trying to create diesel out of plastic at home ? Possible if you've got the smarts and complicated set up for it.
I wouldn’t try it, I’m sure that stuff he made is full of byproduct that actual diesel doesn’t contain, I feel like it would clog filters and pumps and injectors in a diesel vehicle…
take some dirty oil like cooking oil or even used car oil and add methonol or ethonol the lighter fluid you use for BBQ grilling at a 1 to 3 ratio 30% methonol and 70 % dirty oil mix and done bio diesel or mix the oil in a 50% by 50% mix with gas station red diesel
@4tran But it can run an engine on it and unless you built a wood gasifier you can't run an engine on wood. You are trading one energy source for another more usable one and cleaning up the environment at the same time. If wood and plastic are both plentiful it makes sense and the wood is renewable as well.
Really awesome set for make fuel. Have you made a schematic of the set up for converting plastic into fuel that can be released to the public so that more people could be able to do the same set up as you did.
A condenser is used obviously. I am sure you can find plans for similar devices. I think the process is called "cracking" (breaking up carbohydrates to turn them into sjorter ones).
Hi.
This is beautiful from so many perspectives.
People should and hopefully do know by now that the amount of garbage people produce is outrageous.
Some products are packed in bags which are 3 times the size of the product they envelop.
So, some kind of management of this garbage is a necessity. If there is a possibility that from the process of managing the garbage, something usable comes out, then of course, that's even better.
That's what recycling is.
The only ugly part, is that the comment section is filled with un-recyclable garbage.
Individuals that have absolutely no environmental problem with the pollution from their vehicles, but suddenly have an environmental problem if someone implements a recycling process of garbage which emits a very considerably lower amount of pollution in comparison to their beloved four wheeled mobile pollution dispensers.
They don't have ANY environmental problem with the polluting process of producing packages that turn into garbage, but they suddenly have an environmental problem with the recycling of garbage.
In truth, they are the people who support one of the highest level of crookery, which is the one that sells for decades, overpriced fossil fuel and drains billions of people of their money.
EXACTLY the same with the electrical vehicles production or with the photovoltaic panels production or even with the wind turbines.
Those crooks always tried to scare the fools with the lie that these are the products that harm the environment.
They've never had ANY problem with the production of any other products, noo, not even bullets or guns.
No, because those products limit freedom, whereas recycling and solar panels and electrical vehicles grant more freedom, the freedom to be independent of what someone forces you to buy at the cost they set.
Similarly with the forests. People used to use wood to keep their shelters warm and forests were forests. Now, people were _persuaded_ to choose alternatives to wood to make heat, but it's now when entire forests disappear.
But you know what's nice? If you analyze them, even for just a bit, because of their life mentality and because they support what's against humanity and therefore against them very selves, they grow wider and fatter and filled with illnesses and diseases, and of course more than ever proned to blame everyone but themselves for their condition.
But enough with that, garbage with garbage, and _humane_s with _humane_s.
You, the one who still enjoys the beautiful picture of a better world which is instilled in your imagination, if you cannot recycle garbage, don't worry, but do you best to lower the amount of physical and mental garbage you produce, so you can better see that picture until it becomes reality.
You wanted cars and honks and noise and concrete and wealth and riches, and now, seeing what they are, you want to feel the earth with your feet, you want to hear the nature, you want calmness and peace.
A good sign of evolution this setting aside of what you thought you need and praising what you always had and never before embraced.
Living in this world, we have the opportunity to shape it and it's shape is, always was and always will be, the reflection of what we care about.
Cheers.
Andrew, thank you so much for this comment 💜🙏🏼
@@TheGipsyJourney You're welcome. In fact, it's my pleasure. It's just that I'm filled with such joy whenever I see people sharing with others what's truly beautiful - compasion, that I feel a need to do my best to support them somehow.
I wish you all, only the best.
@@TheGipsyJourney Thank You but I miss the technical description of this system to produce Diesel. It would be very interesting. Many Greetings from Linz-Austria🇦🇹😎👍🐺 Europe!
I agree but hard to do when we see garbage trucks being dumped in the Amazon daily by the hundreds. Kind of like the speed limit. It only works if ppl follow it. How many do? Just like money, we all agree that a hundred dollar bill is worth a hundred bucks. Either the whole earth is on the same save the planet page or ??? If I'm using sun, wind for all my power needs living next to a coal burning power plant no matter how much I don't use or refuse to use by all means is moot when next door they're sending forever chemicals in the air to pollute the world cause the smog clouds don't just sit over USA they move all over. Plastic is the biggest joke their is. I prefer glass or cardboard. And most things can't be recycled at all. They put that symbol on all plastics even though only 30 percent can be truly recycled. Now we have to pay for earlier generations ignorance and greed.
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If this go viral in Indonesia, the rivers will be clean by tomorrow
yoooooooo lol god tier comment
#extendedcarwarranty
Lol, reality is funny.
and the air is unbreathable
@@phbueychewy6260 you can definately do this it's done in india there is a company itself but if we try to do it at home police will catch us ...
The process of turning plastic to oil is called pyrolysis. Usually it is done in a pressurised oven and the excess gas can be used to heat the plastic in a closed loop system.
Lol, an anime character named Senku from Dr.Stone made one in his classroom just like you described, it's the only reason I know about, but never did I actually think it was possible, I didn't research it after watching the show, so this video was a surprise to me.
@@jsensei402 Bro, I love that anime
Pyrolysis
That is cool.
Do u have a video ur way sounds a million times better then this guys moonshine gas is made, I really want to do this if I can find a way to make it profitable I can setup shop in the Philippines and fix the problem of mess in the rivers because people would much rather bring there trash to be put in a system they can get a gas credit to use to purchase gas for then just throwing it in the river or on the ground. This could be a solution to the problems we have of being stupid humans and Africa or India all these places have kids picking through garbage if they could make gas they could be better off.
It would have been good to see the diesel making process in more detail: But thank you for sharing
search for "Plastic pyrolysis into diesel"
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To me that "diesel" lit up fast and bright from a match. I've seen matches put out in diesel. Then again, apparently his diesel generator runs on it...🤔.
Also, I'm glad he's cleaning up and making use of all the plastic we've allowed to float up on his beach, but the nasty smokey fire for his distillery isn't exactly environmentally friendly. Sorry about the complaints, just a couple of points...I did enjoy the video and am subscribing, ☺️
@@RoodiniCats he could upgrade the wood heater into a rocket stove for a more efficient burn
@@DustinMarsauthat definitely sounds like an improvement. I guess he's mostly working with what he has on hand, so I'm not faulting him ☺️.
Maybe a rocket stove will wash up on the beach...? 😁
This man needs funding. Imagine the good that could be done if more of us learned to do this.
Funding? The last guy ended up mysteriously dying. I agree with you though.
Stop the bull.
Grow up and step up in your life.
One man's trash is another man's treasure!
The only negative is the fact that burning plastics do pollute the air and contribute to global warming.
Yes but if that is implemented in a plant with 21st sentry filtration system might be a game changer.
We always hear how many tones of plastic pollution are in the ocean and rivers and everywhere, if we return our plastic for a few cents, a diesel or fuel in general could be produced.
@@OnyxCat681 Not the case here.. in factories yes.. what do you think they use the plastic for after they colect it..to do diesel.. so from cleaning the land to poison the air.. so.. they solve nothing really.
I’m sure there are
all kinds of filters and processes to cut down the pollution! If there is a need it can be invented!
Diesel doesn’t burn like that (it has to be heated and aspirated to burn). It probably closer to kerosine as a fraction. I hope you have a good exhaust system as that fuel would most likely contain lots of sulphur and chloride and other compounds found in plastics. In other words it would be very toxic/poisonous fumes.
so he should stop using his generator because it pollutes the air but what about the 133 million big trucks that are on the roads in America alone, we should spare this guy any of your lectures i would suggest
@@_RocketRooster "but what about...?"
Nothing legally driving on any road in the western world is nearly as toxic as the gases this setup produces. It is completely fine if you don't care, it is completely fine if this guy decides to inhale that shit anyways, but it is also okay to point out the toxicity.
You have to be careful which plastics are used. Not Vinyl, PVC, ABS, Nor Styrene. All can produce poisons such as hydrogen cyanide and other nasties. Use only PE, HDPE, LDPE, we also use PET as most of the plastic seems to be bottles, some people don't as waxes can form in the pipe and cause a blockage if used motor oil isn't used or they don't have enough of the HDPE plastics for the waxes to dissolve into, other people may have better luck sourcing the good stuff better than we. Richer plastic piles to mine. :)
These plastics are very low on sulfur, PVC has the chloride which will eat the metals of your system.
There were still volatiles in the demo, normally they would be aired out before use or captured in a finer, secondary process.
I believe he was talking about the mans personal health. This wasn't exactly an industrial HSE production environment. More like DIY hippie scrapyard..
Beat me to it
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@Ry Low dude if cleaning the planet and making billion$$$ doing is being a prick sign me up. And sense you are of such little mind you just can’t bend yo head around it.
If this was sustainable and anybody could actually make money off of it they'd already be doing it stupid
@@kinzieconrad105 @ry low was talking about rockefeller being pricks but this guy is helping the earth lol
This guy is so chilled, even in 1.75x speed he sounds chilled.
lol so true
2x here and I wasn't even tempted to go to 2.5 because he was so dang engaging. Just checked 1x and he doesn't even sound stoned. He is an unusally good speaker.
That's what happens when you sniff a heap of plastic petrol
Lol
Smokes a bit of reefer
This guy is living the life. Really inspiring. I admire his courage.
Dude burns plastic. Rush Muzik: How inspiring. Very couragous. (Its cool no doubt he lives a life we dream.
If I burned plastic I'd be prevented from doing it because of the pollution I'm causing. He has a generator, water pumps, electricity, people to help him...... where is the courage which you admire? You can do the same if you can find an island that'll let you run a home-brew oil cracking plant. Burning plastic, carefully to control particulates and carcinogens would be worthy - but what he's doing is actually quite bad.
He & his wife are living from their hearts. That's called love for the planet & love for themselves. A coiple which we can all learn from should we choose to.
yeah J*w's will 100% end his life if this goes mainstream because of him
@@occamraiser oh, I was not aware of the science behind what you are saying. I admired their courage to go off the grid.
When mad max becomes reality, this guy will be royalty
If he is royalty in a post apocalyptic future, his kingdom will be nothing but kindness and love
@@MrDsturman mmm. Heavy is the head that wears the crown.
He run Bartertown.
@@ananda_miaoyin “he *would* run barter town.”
Or “he runs* barter town”
@@MrDsturman Watch the movie, bro. "Who run Bartertown!?"
This guy should have a TH-cam channel of his own. Just his day-to-day life of running his little corner of paradise. He makes it sound like it’s simple but I guarantee you his every day life is a lot of hard work…at least it was a lot of hard work setting up a lot of the things that he does now.
Its probably no harder than a average 9 to 5
@@ephraimlatson of course it's harder. It's much easier to work for somebody else get you money and don't bother. This is much more an entrepreneur. But clearly you have no plan of life by saying something like that. Sorry but fact.
@@sokol7215 lol.. Wrong. Waaay wrong. I have my own business so im speaking from experience. Something im sure you don't have. And working for myself is much easier and rewarding than working for someone else, where they dictate your time and energy. I make my own schedule and my own money. Get ya weight up lil hommie!
The whole point of living there is to be disconnected.
@@wyzurd And he still isn't. They are selling products to people around the world which involves an intricate network of shipping which is basically a connection to just about everyone on the planet, lol.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT !!!! Thank you so much for sharing this vital information!
Good for him. It's nice to see people live on their own terms and passing their knowledge on. I like it. You can live any way that you find comfort. Sometimes it just takes a little while to get used to it.
Burn wood and burn plastic
This is basically reversing the process of how plastic is made in the first place. Plastic comes from oil.
@First Last yes, making streets and resins don’t produce fumes.
True but not just anybody knows that.
This make me wonder, there are certain plastics recycling plants don't want to touch. wouldn't it be better to convert it to diesel rather than throwing it in landfill. Me = confused
@@fortuneflux Because crude oil is much cheaper. Politics just say nice slogans "we need to care about our planet" where in fact they are not interested.
@@fortuneflux Oh no.. The Globalist petroleum lobby cant let u make ur self sufficient fuel, they dont even let the countries that has oil to use oil according to their will.. They own all oil countries by sendimg economic hitman and giving them 5-10% of profits from thier own oil or sometimes not even that by planting a puppet Govt..
Thank you to everyone who will take the time to watch, like and comment🙏 It really helps the algorithm so I'm counting on you :) More people need to see that there are other ways we can live our life and help the environment ❤
Great job turning the island into home! I love the lifestyle, Zero waste!
Much respect on your efforts. Looks like its paying off. As in not needing to pay for everything to survive. Today its a depentant world. Without gov or big corp most would be lost.
You really need the Chinese to keep putting plastic into the ocean otherwise you are screwed.
Just a joke good stuff man.
where is that place they're in?
Is that Koh Samui or phangan area? Or am I way off? 😅
Rather than burning wood why not use a low boiling fraction to feed a blast burner? As a note of caution: Depending on the feed plastic you could be getting some very toxic material that will make abnormally toxic exhaust when partially burnt in a simple Diesel engine. PP and PE will give mostly alkanes and alkenes (good) PS gives styrene and other aromatics (like benzene) (less good) polyesters, nylons and polyimides will give very complex distillates (possibly worse) PVC and PTFE will make hydrochloric and hydrofluoric acid respectively and chloro(fluoro)carbons (very bad). The tar left over in the still might be toxic.
how to seperate out the fractions? based on type of plastic?
Fractions are separated by boiling point so it you’d have to analyze output for this particular still , set up a more efficient reflux condenser and cut by temperature. A really interesting study would be looking at number of birth defects and cancers on the island over the next 40 years.
PTFE is pretty rare and you'd be able to identify it. Overheating of PTFE generates fumes of highly toxic PFIB and poses a serious health hazard to the human respiratory tract. PFIB is approximately ten times as toxic as phosgene. Inhalation of this gas can cause pulmonary edema, which can lead to death.
Chemist here. Yes, you are absolutely right. On the other hand: with a little bit of common knowledge, you can pretty well guess which product is which material and pick the "good" stuff. I believe a responsible person can do this properly, but a careless person will do lots of damage to themselves and the environment. And yes, the leftover tar is definitely toxic and needs proper disposal (costs!)
How about a manual/ pdf with accurate diagrams explaining how to build use and maintain the fuel machine. Thank you.
Yes that what i want
Look up pyrolysis
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@@chris2790 thank you
how to produce toxic gases 101 :D
I’ve often wondered about returning plastics to its original source. I love the self-sustainable process and would love to go visit! Thank you for sharing this!!
Irony being that no one really wants to discuss the amount of non-renewable resource consumption and pollution causing technology that went in to getting this guy started and even keeping it maintained. Let's take a look at the amount of trees he cutdown (or took from the soil) just to grow his garden, to burn fuel (wood) in order to make more refined fuel so that he can run his fancy modern gadgets, like television, wifi, youtube, ice cream maker, etc.
Let's try to imagine the fuel/resource consumption that goes into tourist like you going to visit, because after all, that is what this guy wants and needs to keep the "dream alive".
Then let's calculate all the people who he's "inspiring" to do the same, and try to surmise how long these wild "virgin" islands will actually remain wild, and how long before there is eventually smog, a walmart and pharmacy on each one offering "free" vaccinations to all the inhabitants and their chickens etc.
Sadly these "green peace" hippies who jet set around the globe looking for unadulterated places to set up their "off grid" society and shops are often killing our planet as fast or faster then the people who live in the cities. At least the city folk all learn how to live in small spaces, and the energy they consume actually comes to them much more efficiently than most of these "pioneers" who use massive amounts of resources in order for them to have some of the same luxuries.
@@Rick-the-Swift your off your rocker if you think these guys living off grid making there own fuel and soap are using more resources than the Amazon hungry masses in the city bro. Talk about reality check lol
@@Rick-the-Swift sadly no. Climate change is a scam. That's why people feel so emotional about it. Globalist programming so the billionaires can keep control over us. They don't want us decentralized and sustainably independent.
Great. Now you're going make the fuel company lose money 😀
@@jontaylor917 the crazy thing is they complain about co2 and they're going to bam diesel and petrol but it's not really a ban they tax you if you go in the area . If I ban you from my house you can't pay me to get in.
I wish someone would take this operation on a grand scale such as on a barge that would travel world wide cleaning up the ocean and getting a fuel source to run the ship and some to sell. No telling how far this could go.
talk to the company already mining the oceans for plastic they grind up on the boat, they could add this.
Why not you?
If I wasn't a worn out old man I would be doing many things now. Living off grid, inventing an electric car that will charge the batteries from the wheels turning, finding a way to use old tires as a road base, etc. But you only have so many beats in a heart and mine are coming to and end.So, you try to put your ideas out there and hope one comes true.
The energy input from the fire far exceeds that of the energy yield. If this actually worked it would be equivalent to a perpetual motion machine
@Deacon of Biology
You obviously don't know what a perpetual motion machine is. He is providing the heat and the plastic. All he is doing is removing stored energy from the plastic. As soon as the fire goes out or he stops putting in plastic the process stops. Nothing perpetual about it.
Brilliant!
I'd love to see more details in your plastic/diesel process... There's never a shortage of plastic.
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@nikofranko2068
Thank you... I was thinking about plastic as fuel.. you answered my questions.
Repurposing things always interest me.
You get so much satisfaction in it.
Plus it makes the most of what you have
You provide many good tips.
Well done.
God Bless.
Be safe.
Game developers making survival games:
"WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE IT ALL DOWN!"
But they don't lol
Man, you know what my dream game is? A voxel game that has physics and chemistry. Nearly a replica of our world in terms of dynamics and function, just without the worst part which would be permanent death and long term effects. So animals "evolve" to get their attributes and you can truly interact with the world. Though I don't know how the walking and hand/arm movement would be properly made (so that you can actually do complex stuff and the environment does stuff to you). Realistic science would take a dump on everything you do as well as the environment and animals (and robots)
@@midgetman4206 The closest thing to that game would be "Dwarf Fortress". Wait for the Steam release :)
@@midgetman4206 I have an idea too: if you want the most realistic game, shut down the computer and play reality - this game has been already developed.
@@yordanpopov7691 I do enjoy the real world. It's just that there stuff I can't do in it. Like how I will never be able to go inside of a B-17 and shoot its guns. I essentially want a simulator with game elements, it could do many different settings like imagine something like mad max or alternatively space exploration
Loved your video! I hope you do one just on the hydroponic "wicking" because I would like to see the process. The coconut soap looks fabulous! Great job.
It looked delicious.
This is the most badass thing. I thought using my old semi truck used oil to heat my barn was cool but taking trash and making fuel out of it is fucking Genius as hell.
I had a chemistry teacher telling us how his bike ran out of fuel and stating he's a chemist, he solves problems... so he turn plastic into fuel and made enough fuel to drive to the next gast station. This was back in the 90s. Shout out to Mr. Gilmore.
Derek y Ana viven su filosofia de vida amigable al medio ambiente y a su comunidad en Little Corn Island. Los felicito por su eficiencia y perseverancia!
Si es realmente increíble lo que hacen 🙌🏽😊 gracias por tomar el tiempo de mirar el documental 🙏
Thank you, Irene :-).
you my new found friend are living my dream. i have been down the road of alternate fuels, ( used veg oil to run my diesel car for 10 yrs, make bio diesel, make soap, build solar cells from broken cells, recycle old 12v 200amh batteries, wind gensets from fisher n paykel washing motors, fresh water from sea water solar stills, water heaters using the insides of foil chip packets, used motor oil recycling/filtering, for heating and reuse as engine lube.
keep up your life style.. i wish i had another chance to do this all over again in another lifestyle as yours....
This is it.. Going back to the roots but still be a pioneer today. Looks like a dream and a lot of work
If there was more people like this guy... Then there would be hope for the human race...
he is still burning fuel, using machinery, etc. i highly doubt burning plastic like that is very good for the environment. other than bringing tech to an island and lowering his standards to live like this. what did he do that was so wonderful?
@@EgoBruiser well for a start he is self sufficient for the most part , and also removing masses of plastic that washes up on the beach and making use of it for a good purpose , , as for using machinery , i bet your not against the the massive tech and machinery industry that allows you to voice your opinion on the device and infrastructure you are now using and live your daily life , and i would also suggest the minimal amount of tech and machinery and resources this gentleman uses is probably a drop in the bucket to what 99.9 percent of what we wasteful average consumers use in the big smoke .
@@mikldude9376 lol...he is not self sufficient, he relies on others and even states so. where do you think his clothes and the machinery come from? hand blender for soap?...lol. anyways just calling it like it is, apparently this triggered you. you also didn't address at all the poisons that come out of those plastics he's burning and what is being done with them if anything. there are major environmental concerns here, but that doesn't seem to concern you.
@@EgoBruiser was looking for this comment, had to be someone who saw that many are already doing the same except they are not in isolation.
Good to see y'all pulling it off. These couple lines of lyrics came strong to mind while watching the reflection of events...
We are stardust, we are golden, we are caught in the devil's bargain,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Curious about emissions of burning plastic
Not good
Lots of nasty chemicals released.
OTOH here they heated the plastic anaerobically, so no oxidisation
It's a closed air enclosure. The damaging chimera are trapped in the tank and almost incinerated. So you could say in theory. It's okey but there is a chance that the could combust in the tank. So you have to be careful that the tank is completely and fully sealed and the piping and seals have no leaks
@@SirStalfo what's the best way to get rid of what's left in the pot?
@@vincentgizdich2842 serve it up for breakfast the next day
I would love to live like this. It is my dream to live with family in a place like this. I hope i can one day.
No you do not. Appreciate the roof over your head more.
@@christianmolina7576how do you know what I want or what I can appreciate.
I don't live with a roof over my head. If I had a choice I would like to live in the way of the video rather than in a house.
Does seem so peaceful doesn't it!
@@rainnnnnn372 yes. That's all I want. Peace and harmony.
I don't want money, fast cars, jewellery.
All I want is to live in peace. That is all.
He invites everyone to join him at the end of the video. ❤
What a powerful story ! Mad respect to this family setting examples for others.
Really wonderful. Please show us how to make diesel. Like teaching school children. You know, diesel is so expensive in my country, ppl are gradually becoming poor due to this.
And thanks for the invite.
@@agnesmahlakoane6317 Im really not sure how to go about that 😂
I wonder how long til he mysteriously disappears like everyone else who has done this
Yes there is a demand because is the only way to break off from the corrupt system. We should all be self sustainable.
So happy for you guys! keep going.
The system provides the plastic and demand for his coconut stuff doesnt it? There is a division of labor even on this island. Machines were built by someone else, the iron was once smelted etc.
@Thomas Lucas There are no cars here so there are no roads, only footpaths. The restaurants for the most part are on the other side of the island. Not too many people live out where we live.
A question for L B - How's that going for you? I assume you have cut all ties with the 'CORRUPT SYSTEM' and you're living a sustainable life without all the corruption of technology. Wait you're watching You Tube on some type of computer and commenting? That sounds really CORRUPTED to me. Kind of hard to take you serious, is it not.
@@dadillen5902 It's going great. We now use conch shells as our diving tanks and the bottoms of glass coke bottles as masks.
@@dereksplace1342 I assume those 'glass Coke bottles' washed up on the beach some time ago.
I would definitely like more videos on the diesel making, and aquaponics.
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Wow 👌 such a beautiful way to live wasting nothing .
Well done 👏 and congratulations 🎊.
Thanks for sharing 👍 greetings from England 🏴 Simon and Beth ❤❤❤
U should explain fuel process for those interested in learning how and what is needed to obtain it. I am one of those who want to know every detail of this system. Thank u!
I second this!
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Google it.
@@MB-TheRealAustralia thank U!
The ideea is that no one explains how to construct step by step the instalation....
I wish that man & his people all the best he has found his place in a world of his making well done.
Thank you for the kind words. The same to you.
@@shanelarriu907 Under the video is some contact information, or at derekplacelittlecornisland.com. If you go through the comment replies we went into more technical detail on several, there is also a thread at Energetic Forums that goes through the whole thing. Type 'plastic to diesel' and you'll find the thread. It is invaluable.
The direct link is also listed below under the user Derek Sharp, I can't seem to add the direct link here.
I’d like to see more about how you made the diesel maker.
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The diesel engine was originally designed to run on peanut oil. Beware burning plastic creates carcinogenic dioxins.
Oil/green energy does not want you to know or attempt to distill and crack your own hydrocarbons, hell alcohol as a fuel has a giant racket built around it but it’s green!
@@sang3Eta If it combines with oxygen at very high temperatures. From what research told us, it is not a problem if the oxygen is evacuated before hand.
@@TheZmoney420 No, reason you cannot do this in most nations except in industrial situations. Is how toxic the pollution is.
The fjord i live in, we cannot eat the fish still. From pollution that happend 50 years ago. Same pollution you get from burning plastic. Industry can clean it up much better than a man with a still at home ever can.. Thats why this is not allowed in most nations unless you can prove you clean it all up.
Sure he reduced the microplastics in the sea. But he takes carbon from solid form and turning it into a gas. That is one of our current problems with global warming.
Would be better off making that plastic into a polymer nature can break down, and not making a solid into gas. But you would not get energy then. Better to get some extra panels in that case.
Dude that was beautiful I wish you your wife and community the best thank you so much for making this video
Now this is how we're meant to live, much respect for what your doing, wish i could be a part of it! I'm 65 and still have the dream of living totally off grid and hopefully this is finally the year it becomes reality.
Thank you, we hope you attain your dream. Good luck to you.
Yes, you can do it. We can't. for an advanced civilization such as ours you need farming on a large scale, mining on a large scale, drilling, lumbering etc. etc. A large civilization can not sustain itself for too long. Humans in a large civilization are going extinct but those who can live a self sufficient life style will not.
I'm 62, live in the Dallas, Texas area, and found myself living "off grid" this past week, but not intentionally! Due to the big ice storm and failure of the power grid, we had no electricity, no internet and many people had no running water. Lots of people were sleeping in their cars to keep warm, It was difficult to find a gas station that had fuel and the electricity to pump it. Fortunately, I was way more prepared than most, but still looking for better ways of doing things. This process of making fuel from plastic trash is intriguing, and I will be looking into it. I'm also thinking of building a simple diesel motor from melted aluminum cans.... It would be pretty cool to build a diesel generator and make my own fuel from trash....
Yes sir, this is real life and healthy too.
@@ngenius2 So sorry to hear what happened.
It’s going to happen all over the world, while they set up the new digital system.
Thank you for sharing 🙏🏻
All the best to you.
What an amazing life! This is my definition of being rich.
I'd even go as far as to say blessed to be honest. That mindset, attitude, devotion, etc. A lot of people like myself have never really experienced that, no matter how hard we try. I'm not jealous though, just slightly green with envy lol
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Anyone can do it too, if you just put your mind to it, you have to learn to focus more. I believe you can. 😜😁
You’re probably not far off the mark. I’m going to bet a sawbuck this guy can cash in his trust fund if the situation goes south.
He didn’t just paddle there by himself in a dinghy - the guy has serious money.
He’s not saving the environment - he’s exploiting the land & polluting like crazy. This is one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in a long time.
@@waynehart1558 - Only very rich people can do this. The soap they make and sell doesn’t levitate itself to the upper-class downtown boutiques.
Wish this discussion had stuck to personal plastic distillation (?) pros, cons, concerns and ideas. It would have been such a good resource for anyone considering trying this out.
Thanks for showing how easy it is to make diesel from plastic. I had no idea but as plastic comes from oil felt sure it should be possible.
Great vid
wow!!! i love your work...you,your wife and the whole community participating in your ideas is what the world needs..i just hope that it will not be too late for humanity to embrace the neccessary changes and adaptation the way you did...
I completely agree with everything that you’re doing I admire so much being able to reuse what actually is not waste. Here’s where the cynic in me comes out and lays the foundation of truth. This method and way of life does not support today’s level of consumerism. The saddest part about being a human in this day and age is it has become acceptable to turn your back on mother nature and to not have any accountability for what someone leaves behind.
I feel that it is the speed of information that has quicken the pace of the personal interaction which has detached the synapse of connection with what is acceptable on a social basis, but what actually is unacceptable on a planetary understanding.
Everybody knows that we’re better than this but nobody wants to take the time to do the things that need to be done.
I recycle when I can I reuse so many things whenever given the chance and over the past three years I’ve been retaining plastic bottles and containers that I know I can put back in the use for holding things like hardware such as screws or bolts. Water bottles that were used once I fill them back up and stick them in the basement so if there’s an outage I have water.
I think the western part of the world has become arrogant and ask as if they don’t need to care about resourcing and repurposing things because we have enough financial ability to not have to do that well regardless of if you can buy it it should be your responsibility to not be so gluttonous and deceitful against the planet. There’s no doubt in my mind that collectively we will force this planet to turn on us in order for it to save itself it will find away to kill a great majority of the humans on this planet but it seems that this wouldn’t be certainly the first time that the earth has cleansed itself of the parasites that have an inability to control the carbon atom.
I test anyone of you reading my post to go to your local landfill take one single bag of trash or even just tell them that you wanna drive in and look around and see how you feel about being a human to me it’s disgusting and it’s saddening that just because we pay money to put our trash in bags and then those bags go into a container that it’s OK to just have that truck which picks up the bags drop it in a field which is piling up on top of itself and then mixed with dirt so that they can bury your food Reminence and tons of waste.
This brings up the point of how it is important to try and donate things if given the opportunity.
It’s always seemed interesting to me, actually more hilarious that we would not like to give away things of value to strangers and that we would expect some thing as far as a monetary compensation for the things that we’re not using right. But then when we aren’t able to sell the items we refer to directly disposing of them in the trash and this whole concept is mine boggling to me if you’re actually not going to be able to get anything of it but it actually may have value and usefulness to somebody else why not just give it away.
See the first exhibit spoken about earlier where humans suck.
Thanks for tagging along maybe this will resonate with somebody somewhere sometime.
I think the last thing I’d like to mention is that I don’t think that everybody’s in capable of acting or participating in the necessity for resource management considering reclamation but most humans will not do anything unless forced to do so out of necessity. Simply enough we are pampered spoiled filth here in North America and I don’t wish harm on anyone but if an EMP blast came through and took out a large majority of the computer electronics or there was a malfunction amongst cell phone towers and the Wi-Fi capability it would become incredibly evident very quickly that we have become a culture dependent on the ability to look up some thing instantaneously but have no ability to retain the information that’s been given to us because there’s no experience attached to the information. I’m not saying that all people are idiots but there’s a vast majority out there that will not be able to function when shit hits the fan.
Enjoy your information searching, isn’t that the reason we’re all here.
I like how he talk n when he say "herbs"..
Quite a lot of Americans pronounce 'herb' that way - I've never heard it from speakers of any other variety of English.
Wow! that is so awesome!
Que maravillosa y creativa vida sustentable nos muestran!!!....fantastico video que en tan solo unos minutos de pelicula sientes que te transporta a ese lugar y te deja tal sensación que quisieras ir a conocerlo.....asombroso, me deslumbró!! abrazos desde el Sur del mundo...TEMUCO- CHILE
Gracias bella!! siempre puedes venir a conocernos y a conocer este proyecto www.dereksplacelittlecorn.com nos vemos!!
Muchísimas gracias por haber tomado el tiempo de ver nuestro documental Marcela😊🙏 Nos alegra mucho que te haya gustado ❤
This is a very, very good and positive video... VERY informative. The guy did quite well in presenting and speaking and the camera handling was rather professional. A+
I am in awe. Pure no nonsence quality info that anyone can understand. Thanx
So you could brew up a bottle of diesel from plastic waste now?
This is excellent! One day people are going to need to know how to do this. Thank you very much for this video.
I wonder what prevents someone doing this cleanup on a larger scale? Also curious about what the leftover product is and how easilly its disposed of.... anyone know?
@@matthewblunderbuss4545 I can see that. Thanks for the reply.
@@matthewblunderbuss4545 you are making assumptions, and they are all wrong.
@@kinzieconrad105 Ok, I’ll let you explain then, I’ve deleted my assumptions.
It is not a clean up. He's burning plastic... And doing it in a very inefficiënt way
@@graypistachio4141 he is... but it's also in a vaccum which makes me wonder if there is a way to scrub the gasses before they are released into the atmosphere if applied on a larger scale.
Eco conscious people like this are awesome. They are self sustaining and able to make a living. Thats inspiring 👏 🙌
They never research the adverse effects.
Burning plastic is horrible for people and the environment.
@@robertm2663 and how do you get the fire, with burning trees. this has nothing to do with "eco conscious" ness
Congratulations! I love what you are doing for Mother-Earth! I do have one question; the fumes. How do you handle the fumes?
Nice 😊,we all need to do this ,GUYZ 🎉......
You can use tires as well to make the fuel, all you are doing is distilling the plastic and cooling it, the diesel comes off first where it is hottest then as the vapor cools further it becomes gasoline or at least close substitutes. This process is called pyrolysis and both the tires and plastics can be used together, no need to separate them.
What the heck do you do with the byproduct of burning all that plastic?
Close you have it backwards the gas comes off first remember you are leaving the up curve out of your equation.
I hope the people of south america watch this so that they can spend their living in their land rather going to america and became a worker..hope all people of this earth can be inspired of this video. A truly living and busy life in the other side of polluted city.great video 🖒
@Thomas Lucas You are a bad troll. The restaurants are 20 minutes on the other side of the island. We have a hotel consisting of five beach cabanas and dive shop, and you are welcome to stay with us learn and go diving. Look us up under Dereks Place, little Corn Island, Nicaragua or check out out instagram under the video.
Don't conflate what we said how it was 20 years ago with today.
This guy is Brilliant! I hope he's going places!!! God bless 🙏
4:13 I live in the UK and once in the summer i had one of my tilapia jump out of the pond and it survived for about half an hour until I found it 😆🙈
I am so happy for him, I want to be the same soon and quit the city for good
Great. The more people who show up from the city, the more trees can be cut down for farm fields, and all the timbers burned to make small amounts of diesel so the television and youtube can be watched in the evening. Yay
Maybe if enough people from the city show up and bring enough modern tech, there can be a walmart. pharmacy, real gas station etc.
Seriously, though, good luck leaving the city, but honestly I have to wonder if this is how Easter Island became a desert island?
Wow, doing what needs to be done yet nobody's doing this. Well done
There are a few folk doing this . Governments are crafty and create laws sadly ... if you want to nake one look up pyromancing distillery and hey presto nade from junk and a bit of build skill
One person doing it in the middle of nowhere is OK, but otherwise not sustainable=and very polluting. Sweden is producing energy by burning waste, but they are at least filtering the emissions.
Most of are too lazy and wanna be able to walk 5 minutes to the grocery store and buy our food ofc. Some of us are even worse, wont walk but would drive instead (ofc im not talking about the disabled, but those able bodied).
Huh? Recycling plastic for Fuel has been researched for the last 50 years, and it STILL not safe or efficient.
"heavy metals and dioxins become concentrated in the resulting products making then unsuitable as fuels, because when combusted they are released to the environment."
www.lowimpact.org/pyrolysis-not-solution-plastics-problem/
@@francismarion4450 Like I said... for one person doing it is perfectly OK. If the whole population of Bermuda starts doing it whoever, then they will all probably die from cancer or something.
This is “TRULY GENIUS”! I applaud you for your ingenuity and insight! I just stumbled onto this video and hope to find out how you built your “plastic to diesel” contraption as I’d like to build one myself! Nice job!
My feed gave me this one on the side bar while watching: "plastic pyrolysis chamber: - th-cam.com/video/1STaZYZ-P1w/w-d-xo.html
lol. i see u got no response after 1 month.
He won't share exactly how to do it!
all of these videos are a dead end somehow. this design looks hella easy. Ive seen videos where people go trought lengths of trouble to fail at the end.
He cooks plastic and drives off the volatile chemicals leaving toxic heavy hydrocarbon 'ash'. It isn't rocket science.... in fact it is barely science. Stills like that are very popular in the backwoods in America - for making moonshine. The man isn't a genius he's a serial polluter. There is no way on EARTH he's be allowed to run that 'still' in anywhere that has environmental protection controls. How very ironic that he's being praised by the exact same people who would stop a safe, clean, well engineered oil refinery from being built to do much the same chemistry. Cracking/Fractional Distillation.
why is this video not viral, how can you not love some one who can live like this.
Because burning plastic releases dioxins and can cause cancer.
The world needs more of these guys. I'm working on a test pyro system myself.
Then you will be part of a problem as well.
Find a way of getting rid of plastic keeping the co2 locked inside....not turning it into diesel that adds to the problem.
Im truly very impressed! Everything they have done from soap to fuel to planting is perfect. Smart guy for sure.
I've thought about doing something like that: cracking plastic bottles into something like heating oil. Question: Doesn't the reactor create a horrible stench? What of the vapors produced?
No, the smell is not too bad. There is a unique smell associated with it but it is nothing like smelling a stinking outdoor burn pit. Don't throw in rubber sandals and things like that, stick with normal plastics like hdpe, ldpe, pp plastics, etc and things will be fine. The earlier forums said be careful and not put PET plastic in (like clear water bottles) because their molecular structure contains oxygen and they were afraid of explosions inside the reactor. Most of our fed plastic ends up being just that and has been fine. PET does seem to contain a lot of waxes so it is recommended to mix with other plastics and especially used motor oil. Budget Rent A Car in Managua gave us two barrels of used motor oil so Little Corn island has a lot of waste plastic about to be repurposed.
All of the gas vapors are condensed into it's fuel fraction and what does not condense (butane, propane) is used as fuel and fed into the carburetor of a gasoline generator instead of gasoline. The exhaust scent from the gasoline genny is strangely sweet. I couldn't tell you why. The scent from the diesel engine is pretty normal, but I do mix this 'diesel' and normal diesel so it burns clean and not too heavy.
@Grim FPV Well, I prefer not to get it on me so be sure to wear gloves. So far so good. If people experiment, just be sure to use good quality metal containers with thick bottom and walls- not for pressure but for gradual corrosion making it thin and dangerous, especially the reactor.
As mentioned before, the types of plastics used are important, some having chemical compositions that may be more toxic than others.
@@dereksplace1342 this blew my mind. I think this process should definitely be used more. There is definitely too much plastic waste in the world. And I am a garden-a-holic I absolutely loved seeing your garden. Give your wife a hug looks like she works hard on soap making. Much love n hugs guys.
@@JCC_1975 Thank you, she does, and I will pass on your regards. The garden was a bit mashed by the hurricanes but it is coming back, the video caught it at a good moment :)
@@dereksplace1342 , hi, I am from Congo and I would like to learn more about the all systems, is there any book you will recommend? There are plenty of plastic there and this will help to clear them and generate electricity. You and your wife are the best.
I’d love to see an update on the generator, any maintenance? I can’t imagine that dirty fuel doesn’t gunk up, maybe I’m wrong
I'm so envious of this guy, what a fantastic way to spend your days and truly reap what sow.
This is absolutely brilliant, thank you for sharing ❤
Where can we find more about his distillation system? I'm really curious about his condensers.
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buddy you are awesome .... i love this way of live .... it shows that you are hard working ,strong , independent and very inteligent person\
I'd like more details on how you made the contraption that turns plastics into diesel
It's not exactly diesel, more like kerosene. Diesel doesn't burn like that example in the cup.
@john wood Quite a difference between diesel and kerosene. Not all fuels are the same so it's not semantics.
@@stevet5379 whatever the hell it is its working in his diesel generator right? thus you can say its diesel fuel, What else would he call it. It fuels his diesel engine , So its diesel fuel.. am i wrong ?
Awesome job, folks! For others reading these comments, they are not burning the plastic, they are heating (distilling) it until the molecular chains start coming apart changing it back to a form of petroleum oil. The temperature of the inside of the container regulates what type of fuel and other byproducts are produced. This is way cleaner than the plastic pollution of the earth. I believe it gives of little or no CO2 and even if it did, most plants need CO2 to live and give off oxygen.
Thanks a lot for watching and for making this point clear to the people who are being critical. The worst part is that people on the island even burn plastic to get rid of it! Which is far worse in my opinion
@@TheGipsyJourney I agree completely.
Shhhh we don't allow this kind of truth-telling on TH-cam anymore lol
I'd love to be be apart of the team by being there. I respect what you're doing
you guys are geniuses. Blessings for you all
What kind of emissions are coming out of his plastic distillery? I'm guessing there are some nasty volatile organic compounds that are released into the atmosphere.
Can't be worst than contamination due to drilling...!
In more the plastic everywhere becomes microparticules of plastic thatcare found everywhere in the world and in all living organism. By using this plastic you help decreasing this plastic pollution.
Probably a lot, but it's preferable to just leaving the plastic lying around on the beach, plus it's helping to run his business and help the locals.
There's no doubt that recycling is highly energy intensive, but there's so much plastics and other stuff that should be recycled instead of going into landfill, we should make the most of it.
Would still be less than all the plastic damage, get a few good filters. More benefits to us and planet (except the most important $$ ) than its current, much worse, polluting disposal method.
@@mychkineplot7677 unfortunately it is worse, while plastics are bad for the environment as litter they are actually a carbon sink. Once processed from oil into plastic they hold onto that carbon for 100's of years, when he burns them for fuel they are releasing carbon that would have otherwise be trapped in the plastics.
This opposed to bio fuels that take co2 already in the air convert that into fuels which is carbon neutral
To all the people on the post either bashing other forms of energy saying this is preferable, or that leaving the plastic lay about is bad.... take 10 minutes to look up the science before posting such an ignorant answer. It is people like you who have zero understanding of chemical reactions, pollution, or how to actually take care of probably anything. I am tired of people claiming they are working for a better environment while actively destroying it.
This is just awesome! Now we know we can help the environment..and live in harmony just as God intended...
All this is rather time consuming and works only if you stick to one place..
Absolutely amazing. Everything you are doing. Also I'm going to attempt to run my 41 year old campervan on your diesel. I'm currently planning on running on vegetable oil but I'd prefer to get rid of waste at the same time. Me and my family are hoping to move away from the UK and to Bulgaria to live a more quite and simple life. In the middle of nowhere. Once again great work and what an inspiration you are ❤️
You can run on recycled vegetable oil, that would be better for the environment that burning plastics to make diesel.
This is all new to me. Do you have any idea about how much plastic [ weight or volume] you need to make a liter of diesel?
Amazing video! I’m very impressed with what you’ve done to make it your home, an honest fantasy of mine!
This guy and his family are truly livin the dream! After years of living in the hampster cage/rat race this life is amazing 👏
Well do something about it my friend.
He's distilling diesel and runs a generator to supplement his chinese made solar panels to run his laptop or whatever - All he's opted out of is paying bills. And he's achieving that by running an unlicenced, un-controlled mini oil refinery.
Derek decided not to devulge or discuss the part for where he's been secretly growing his pot and hallucinogenic mushrooms. 🤣
Dont forget cocaine
hahaha
Why the hell not❣️
You just know he’s got some killer strains. Lol
Perks of owning an island
Absolutely amazing, Sir you are a genius
He is!! 🙌
Ya I know what herbs that guy is growing in his hydroponic garden
So Wesley’s Waters...probably some parsley, sage, rosemary & thyme. Maybe some Lemon grass and garlic too I bet. Maybe a nice strain of Alaskan Thunderfuck crossed up with some old school Maui Waui ...but that’s his business. Making fuel out of plastics though...that’s kinda like a super power ya know.✌🏼
Your just jealous your not Canadian. It is legal here. You can grow your own "Garden" so to speak. We only get summers to grow. Damn..he's growing year round.
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For those that are interested in trying this process for themselves there is a very good thread at Energetic Forums. It's been around for a few year and is VERY helpful. Start from the beginning, the thread evolves as people experiment and learn. And be careful, use pipes of at least an inch in diameter, no leaks, and if you are not using an inert gas like nitrogen to displace the oxygen inside the reactor, start with a lower fire gradually making it hotter so the oxygen inside is pushed out by the gasses released from the melting plastics before it reaches a critical temperature. It doesn't take too long. And use a bubbler, when it bubbles you know it is working and it keeps oxygen from being drawn back into the system. There should not be much pressure in the system, it is an easy flow. Have fun! :-)
This is the link-www.energeticforum.com/forum/energetic-forum-discussion/renewable-energy/7255-how-to-turn-plastic-waste-into-diesel-fuel-cheaply
Thank you to all that give support with their good thoughts and to Gypsy Journey for helping to expose these ideas to many more people than we could have.
Doing it this way will cause cancer. Its not good for the environment
@Ricky Barber Thanks, my friend. The same to you.
@Grim FPV I think you're right that it produces some bad chemicals as a side effect, but when you consider the bad effects they are offsetting by taking plastics out of the ocean and not burning commercially produced fuel, it's likely a net benefit to the environment. Commercial fuel is very dirty and energy consuming to extract, refine and deliver. Now I think if people in a high density city tried to do this at home, then local air pollution would be a more concerning issue. Hopefully the jungle and the sunlight break down most, if not all of the harmful emissions of this small operation. I do think that it will be creative people like this who eventually help to solve our waste and energy production problems through simple inventions.
@Grim FPV Well, we certainly aren't doing it to be bad! :)
This is simply melting and distilling the plastic to extract the last bit of fuel out of the plastic. Plastic is the byproduct of distilling crude into fuel like gasoline and diesel. The huge corporations don't distill it this far, because it is incredibly inefficient, a waste of huge amounts of energy/resources to extract this last, tiny little bit of fuel and also creates more pollution than it is worth. Also, plastic is a commodity that is needed Globally, so the byproduct of the fuel distillation is sold.
If everybody started doing this, the amount of pollution generated would be tremendous. For one guy to do this on an island is not too bad (but not good), however, this does not scale up well without creating massive amounts of pollution. If you start doing this in your backyard, expect your neighbors to be calling the city when all the toxic fumes start blowing all over along with all the smoke from the fire. If you think, "Oh I will use propane", you will burn 10000 to 1 more propane to get that little bit of "diesel/gasoline".
Toxic Fumes are not a joke.
Very impressive Derek and Anna , it's great to see you start with nothing and make something great. Keep up the great work , you are very inspirational.
hardly. Claim sustainability but where are their children?
Something great? He basiclly use plastic as a wood!! It like changing the form of plastic from solid to gas!! Imagine breath all those chemical thing to make plastic, straight to your lung💀
@@Daniel_0778 Hi, you live in an age of great deceit and much evil. This is why you are oblivious that wood and oil products are both hydrocarbons in various forms. That is, green renewable energy that began from photosynthesis.
So despite what you thought you knew, burning wood smoke actually produces MORE toxins than plastic cracking
Look up Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Benzo(a)pyrene.
@@Daniel_0778 exactly. Also STRONGLY doubt they started from nothing, as that is impossible
Love your blog on planting and recycling plastic to make Diesel, I live in a village and would love to get advice on how to build this easy system, love to hear from you.
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I have no words to describe how awesome it is.
Indeed, I don't have words either! Such an inspiration 😊 Thank you so much for watching 🙏
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This guy is amazing! I love what he's done with his life. Quite inspiring!
A girlfriend is a heroin addict she can't do anything but destroy life dolphin Jackson and Adrian Parham
He's done nothing that most reasonably well educated Europeans couldn't do. He's cooking plastic in a still that most moonshiners would understand. He's got a diesel generator, a petrol water pump and solar panels - none of which he's made.
What's he done except run some pipes to some troughs for irrigation? Why are you inspired?
@@occamraiser Don't be so cynical. We may not be the renaissance man that you are, but he's takes a lot less from the environment than 99% of the rest of humanity.
No matter how well you burn plastic, its leaves residue, so what is done with this waste?
Hydrocarbons are carbon based just as we are. Pyrolysize us, carbon is left. Pyrolysize plastic, carbon is left. It is very little compared to the former mass before pyrolysis in the reactor. If there are volatiles still in, it can be used like BBQ briquettes (pyrolysized wood) for getting rid of yard waste or if there are no volatiles it's hard like rock and can be used as a cement aggregate, things like that.
@@dereksplace1342 very detailed and relevant response
@@dereksplace1342 so you seem pretty smart I got a question, by burning the plastic and the diesel aren’t they just polluting the atmosphere just as much as the plastic pollutes the surface, also making the carbon trapped in the plastics now harder to capture back into a manageable solid state to dispose of?
@@TheMilkyWill My smartness level is debatable but I'll try to answer your question from experience.
The plastic isn't burned, it is melted, vaporized and collected after it condenses. What people like to call the 'fumes' is vaporized gas, the heaviest condensing into liquid, the lightest exiting the system and either being flared or passed into the carb of a gasoline engine. Both methods will catalyze the gasses through combustion into CO2, etc. Some people seem to hate co2 but in reality it is necessary for plants to grow. Indoor grow ops buy it by the tank so their plants have an increased growth rate.
The same think that's done to the waste when governments launch rockets. It goes right to the ozone
Not only is this a dream come true, but he is the real deal. At the end he asked that if you want to help, then come dive with them and help clean up. Not once did he ask for money like all the other phony causes do. A REAL GEM this guy is, and his wife !
Diesel generator, condensers, pvc pipes, water pumps, washing machine, ice cream maker, matches, plastic containers, tools, buckets, cooking utensils, food and shelter, clothes. Impressive what you can build with just a hammer and sickle. Nice!
🤣🤣🤣🤣👌
He is just a dude that wants to use all the benefits of the industrial world without giving anything back or sticking to rules defined by the community. At the end of the day he finds enough idiots that think what he does is sustainable or "green" and buy his overpriced garbage...
@@stefan514 damn sounds like your jealous that you didn't come up with the idea before him
@JZ's Best Friend Karen
@JZ's Best Friend Karen why are u so mad :(
If you Break Down or Fraction the Plastics Long Chain Molecules, to around Heptane to Octane.
You have a Type of Energy Producing Fuel.
But will the process also create toxic fumes and cause more air pollution?
What a clever idea. A way to rid yourself from plastic wastes. Totally admirable lifestyle too. I’m envious.🤓👍🏼🌴
The coconut produce is the people’s way of saying, We replace that soap with this natural industry’s soap because it’s good and it helps the Island Producers, better for Islanders and not for big businesses chemical bastardisations.
It doesn't work, to make fuel from plastic you need to add some sort of oil, There was an Australian conman who said this 20 years ago, after 6 years he got busted for fraud receiving government grants
southerneruk south The heating past optimal temps cause separation of Chem.
@@southerneruk It does work, and there are plenty of full size factories developing it.
kleanindustries.com/waste-challenges-innovations/plastic-pyrolysis-recycling/spr-japan/
Your setup is the best I've seen. Two questions: 1. Is the burnt plastic easy to get out of the barrel or is it a big blob? 2. Do you have some plans for building?
You got it all. Gas and diesel.
Can I put plastic-made diesel in my car? The way fuel prices are right now, I'm willing to try anything.
Stick with used cooking oil and producing your own bio-diesel.
Trying to create diesel out of plastic at home ?
Possible if you've got the smarts and complicated set up for it.
I wouldn’t try it, I’m sure that stuff he made is full of byproduct that actual diesel doesn’t contain, I feel like it would clog filters and pumps and injectors in a diesel vehicle…
@@Nowhere-from You can distill it. Look it up. You can make gas from cheap 190 proof booze. Pretty neat shit.
It's probably illegal since it can't be taxed
take some dirty oil like cooking oil or even used car oil and add methonol or ethonol the lighter fluid you use for BBQ grilling at a 1 to 3 ratio 30% methonol and 70 % dirty oil mix and done bio diesel or mix the oil in a 50% by 50% mix with gas station red diesel
Would be cool if he used a fresnel lens to heat the mix with
I think parabolic mirror would be much better.
Yep cool as in not enough heat😁
@4tran But it can run an engine on it and unless you built a wood gasifier you can't run an engine on wood. You are trading one energy source for another more usable one and cleaning up the environment at the same time. If wood and plastic are both plentiful it makes sense and the wood is renewable as well.
@@CUBETechie Look up fresnel lens melting granite. I think a parabola wouldnt do that..
@@epicpaper3994 Not enough heat?! Look up fresnel lens melting granite rock in less than a minute...
Really awesome set for make fuel. Have you made a schematic of the set up for converting plastic into fuel that can be released to the public so that more people could be able to do the same set up as you did.
A condenser is used obviously. I am sure you can find plans for similar devices. I think the process is called "cracking" (breaking up carbohydrates to turn them into sjorter ones).