Alan
The economic logic of the process would dictate that the gadget be scaled up and made a part of our refineries.
Low cost methane from fracked fields permits refiners to process ever heavier crudes at even lower total cost.
BTW, the Swedes developed similar technologies with DC arcs in the 70's. They were driven by homopolar generators originally schemed up to test re-entry vehicles with DC arc temperatures.
The Swedes were able to destroy toxic waste or make syn-gas from biomass.
