Invention Turns Plastic Waste into Home Energy – No Solar Panels Needed

In upstate NY there is a huge controversy over "burn barrels". Some of my neighbors who some might call "rednecks" like burning plastic and other waste but I sure hate walking by when they do it.

Companies like Exxon Mobil have a hard time convincing regulators that it is OK for them to burn plastic

https://www.propublica.org/article/exxonmobil-plastics-recyc...

and other high tech solutions run into trouble

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_gasification

Low-tech incineration of waste during the "Global War on Terror" is blamed for disabling complications in US Veterans:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burn_pit

"the prototype is still evolving."