‘Magic powder’ to burn tires and produce fuel

This sounds very promising…

“A Berthold-area farmer and his crew are ready to take their invention into production. Their invention feeds discarded rubber tires into one end, and spits energy out the other end - in a process that the inventors say recovers almost every bit of energy expended to produce the tires. What’s the big attraction? It seems Delta Energy has answered a question that scientists have been trying to answer for decades. What they’ve accomplished is a system to take one of the world’s biggest pollution problems - discarded tires - some 300-million of them each year - and turn them into usable fuel. Alan Lee of Delta Energy say, “Each tire produces about 2.8, or the equivalent of 2.8 gallons of oil.” Lee says 99 percent of the original tire is turned into something useful, from natural gas to diesel fuel to carbon that can be reused in the rubber and plastics industry. It’s energy friendly because we’re returning fuel.” But it’s not a process that was arrived at easily - this gadget - Lee says it doesn’t really have a name - they call it “the reactor” - was five years in the making - with many bumps along the road. Lee and Erickson say they’re very close to getting the major financial support from a big-name company they need to spread out this technology across the nation. It’s a technology that was made possible by a secret chemical compound that unlocked the door that was keeping rubber recycling from being clean and profitable. Duane Erickson of Delta Energy says, “That’s our magic powder.” - Source