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A high-level description of functionality: http://carbonengineering.com/our-technology/ http://carbonengineering.com/our-technology/ Essentially running an alk
by mkingston 11y ago
A high-level description of functionality: http://carbonengineering.com/our-technology/ http://carbonengineering.com/our-technology/
Essentially running an alkaline solution through a structure and simultaneously forcing air through the same structure. Air contact with alkaline solution results in CO2 absorption into the alkaline solution.
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoSo the CEO says "it's the first time that anyone's demonstrated a technology that captures CO2 that has the potential to be scaled up to be large enough to be relevant from an environmental or climate point of view." How about the Bondary Dam full-scale CCS plant that came online a year ago and is currently removing about a million tons of CO2 annually? Doesn't that count? I don't think anyone is questioning the ability of that technology to be scaled further.
- spenrose 11y agoKey passage: "In CE’s lowest-technical risk ‘baseline’ design, all the input energy required onsite is supplied by natural gas. The carbon dioxide from gas combustion is also captured along with the CO2 extracted from the atmosphere, so that no new CO2 is emitted to the atmosphere by our technology. In the longer term, we expect that carbon-free power will drive air capture. CE is building collaborations to conduct full-scale studies on using solar thermal or nuclear energy as the source of energy for its air capture system."