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American and European regulators have spent tens of millions subsidizing pyrolysis facilities.
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Lisa Song, ProPublica, 20 June 2024
Other petroleum is trapped far beneath the earth or locked in sedimentary shale rocks, and requires deep drilling and elaborate fracking or high-heat pyrolysis to be usable.
—Niall Ferguson, TIME, 2 Aug. 2024
At least 90% of the naphtha used in pyrolysis is fossil fuel naphtha.
—Lisa Song, ProPublica, 20 June 2024
Other processes include laser irradiation, high-voltage pulses, optical sorting, pyrolysis, chemical solvents, etching, and delaminating with a hot knife.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2024
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Lisa Song, ProPublica, 20 June 2024
Other petroleum is trapped far beneath the earth or locked in sedimentary shale rocks, and requires deep drilling and elaborate fracking or high-heat pyrolysis to be usable.
—Niall Ferguson, TIME, 2 Aug. 2024
At least 90% of the naphtha used in pyrolysis is fossil fuel naphtha.
—Lisa Song, ProPublica, 20 June 2024
Other processes include laser irradiation, high-voltage pulses, optical sorting, pyrolysis, chemical solvents, etching, and delaminating with a hot knife.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 June 2024
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“Pyrolysis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pyrolysis. Accessed 7 Sep. 2024.
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pyrolysis
noun
py·rol·y·sis
pī-ˈräl-ə-səs 
plural pyrolyses
-ˌsēz
: chemical change brought about by the action of heat
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