RE:RE:PyroGenesis Successfully Completes 900-kW Plasma Torch....
I dont see plasma torches ever requiring little enough energy for practical residential use, first, it is complete overkill temperature wise and would flash evaporate any water and second, I cant imagine the energy required to get the torch up to plasma level being efficient for heating household water. Likewise a home plasma incinerator would be a huge investment, high energy use, require specialized maintenance and still produce 10% of the original mass as slag and the rest as hydrocarbon fuel (both of which the homeowner would have to deal with). That said, a midpoint I could envision would be community incinerators, especially for locations already reliant on dumps (I.e. without municipal waste services) and maybe adopted as a destination for municipal waste services. PYR technology is actually a great candidate for municipal waste disposal as Ottawa already tried to do plasma gasification of waste but did it on such a large scale that cost to implement would be too high for anything but a major city and the system was too complicated for it to function well enough to get through pilot testing (look up PlasCo). A more affordable, less complex, compact system like PYR can offer makes it way more accessible to smaller towns and has less points of failure than what PlasCo was going for. One really annoying thing that Plasco showed was that even scientific experts failed to understand clowed system plasma gasification (and kept arguing against it like it was an open chimney incinerator).