Think Outside the Box!

Welcome to my test lab & week 1 notes

Innovation happens where you FEEL inspired.
For me, it’s in my lab located out in a small coastal community in the Pacific Northwest.
In the summers I come out here to hear myself think. There are no distractions, just fresh ocean air.

Creation is a form of active prayer. I treat this space like a temple. In return I have been blessed with the insights that
created Wastebot and hopefully a quick end to plastic pollution. Welcome!

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Version 2 Wastebot- Desktop Diesel

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 Old Supply Chain/ New Supply Chain

There is a change happening to the old supply chain. need for landfills and new oil wells. Distributed refining
Decentralization is bringing a new idea to waste process- can reduce the length of the supply chain and unlock new
ing. Instead of Sort-Transport-Bury, the new source code levels of efficiency, while defeating plastic pollution.
is Dematerialize-Distill-Drive Away Pollution.

Ending the lifecycle of plastic as diesel fuel reduces the

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 $100 Billion Marketplace & Beyond

There is a new peer to peer waste marketplace forming cling hardware like Wastebot will grow to $10B, and the
to take advantage of the coming tipping point that reval- mobile waste processing business has $50B potential.
ues plastic as fuel. The key choke points are:
1) The recycling bin
The market is anchored by the 20 billion gallons of fuel 2) Waste truck
locked in soft plastics, valued at $40B. Point of use recy- 3) Diesel delivery service
4) Peer exchange Wastebot.com
 Contributorship - Merit Cooperative
The current corporate paradigm creates massive inequality
and misaligns the interests of the user, employee and inves-
tor. Capital is designed to leave the ecosystem.
Often the best performing employees aren’t compensated
fully for their productivity.
Wastebot is prototyping a new model called Contributor-
ship. Users are rewarded with compensation when they
contribute to the mission of a plastic free world and only
these users are able to buy shares. Our investor base is
made up of Wastebot owners and operates on a private
cryptographic marketplace.
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 Hardware Done Right/ Done Wrong

There is a formula to great hardware companies and it The solar industry on the other hand was built on subsi-
centers around creating a user ecosystem and investing dies and didn’t develop a user ecosystem or educational
in the educational market. integration.

Makerbot and Apple both executed on these strategies Many companies compete away profits and die. The in-
extremely well. dustry records the revenue and new ventures step in.
 The Wastebot Ecosystem

To tackle plastic pollution, Wastebot is developing an know-how and capital. The peer to peer waste exchange
end to end solution from education to technology and provides the marketplace for buyers and sellers of waste
exchange, underwritten by a private equity market built services, the way Uber allocates rides and drivers. Elimi-
on a cryptographic exchange. nating waste before it becomes trash.

User-contributors drive the ecosystem, providing the Wastebot.com

 News & Noteworthy
Labor retirements are sweeping the refining industry,
with 50% of operators retiring in the next 7 years. At the
same time, the switch is being made to more lucrative
petrochemicals.
The China plastic ban means more municipalities are
stuck with waste plastic than ever. Marine diesel stan-
dards now require cleaner diesel fuel for ships. Clean
diesel technology has brought emissions on new engines
down to near zero emissions.
Pollution coalitions are forming to fight plastic and cities
are banning certain plastic types. Investors and institu-
tions are using eco metrics to determine investments.
The Science Behind Wastebot
Plastic is mostly made from petro oils. The hydrocarbon chains
in crude distillates are woven together like fabric to form a sol-
id polymer or plastic.

To break the plastics down into lighter hydrocarbon chains for

use as a valuable liquid fuel we use a process called:
Thermal - Catalytic - Depolymerization & Distillation.

Applying heat through Wastebot shifts plastic from a solid

phase to liquid phase and then again to a gas phase, breaking
the majority of the polymer bonds.

The gas moves through a catalyst and any residual polymers

are broken down into long and short chain hydrocarbons that
appear as wax, diesel & propane gases.

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Demonstration Photos

Turning single-use
plastic into fuel
 Lab Notes
Temperatures in celcius
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Start T1 T2 T3 T4
3:40pm 19 19 19 19

3:42 20 19 19 19

3:44 26 20 19 19

3:46 50 22 19 19

3:48 116 28 20 20

3:50 158 46 23 23

3:52 224 63 26 27

3:54 270 121 55 47 Fuel synthesis

3:56 306 204 106 68

3:58 328 231 127 92

4:00 340 251 141 99 Drain

4:02 335 293 172 120

4:04 365 332 191 138

4:06 410 337 180 123

4:08 428 339 167 108

525ml collected
4:10 444 337 156 98 85% oil conversion
efficiency
 Temperature Chart

End Test
400

300
Fuel Production
14 minutes

200

100

5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55
 Meet Brayden, 9 y.o. STEM Student
Brayden and his dad stopped by the lab to do a little science. We cut up plastic
and Brayden filled up Wastebot, then lit it flawlessly. During the test we heated
water with the waste heat and recaptured 1400+ btu.

During the test we didn’t get quite the fuel production I have come to expect,
and it turned out that the bubbler was low on fluid. We weren’t getting enough
back pressure to liquefy the vapor. I squeezed the gas exit line to compensate
and it helped a lot.

This got me thinking of creating a variable psi bubbler design tuned by inches of
water column with a sight glass for quick reference.

I’m already making changes to the

bubbler design. I added a sight glass
with a top fill, a gas exit, and a drain
port. Still need to test.
 Version 1 Platform
(updated)

The first Wastebot was an attempt to destroy the

maximum number of waste types using carbon
chemistry, a high temperature path that uses
reducing chemistry over a hot carbon surface to
break plastics down into hydrogen rich synthesis
gas.

This is a personal scale design that works well,

but it’s beyond the price reach of the average
home owner. A 2017 version of the build work-
shop is included in this course at Day 30. This
project is considered somewhat advanced if you
decide to replicate it.

The updated version pictured uses a 3 chamber

design that separates low grade and high grade
waste types according to their chemistry. The
carbon in tree branches drives the reaction. Low
grade materials turn to gaseous fuel, high grade
oils turn to diesel.

This version was discontinued because most

of the interest wasn’t from actual waste-to-fuel
users, it’s from people seeking grant money or
trying to knock them off in China, or make a busi-
ness “selling these things” despite zero experi-
ence, capital, or research. Frustrating. This will
likely be an in-house technology.