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Any ideas what kind of DIY experiments I could do to replicate/outperform them on carbon sequestration? If they're the first group in the world to work on it, I
by titojankowski 9y ago
Any ideas what kind of DIY experiments I could do to replicate/outperform them on carbon sequestration? If they're the first group in the world to work on it, I imagine there's a lot of potential for hackers to fiddle. I have access to hardware lab and biohacker lab.
- chris_va 9y agoCryogenic separation with some thermal cycle recovery is the most efficient method that I am aware of.
- semi-extrinsic 9y agoThey're far from the first group to work on it. Just for a sense of scale, the International Energy Agency (IEA) oversees the Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies conference (GHGT) which has been going since 1997. It's the main Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) conference, held every other year, with more than a thousand people attending. As one concrete example of companies working on direct capture from air, ETH Zürich has a spinoff/startup called Climeworks, who have alredy built machines that do this. They started in 2009 and did e.g. a $3 million series B round back in 2014. Currently assembling their first large-scale plant AFAIK. (No affiliation to the project. I'm not really a believer in direct air capture myself, I don't think we'll ever see the cost become low enough for large scale adoption. US DoE has estimated the cost will be around 6x the cost of capture from e.g. natural gas powerplants, so I think it makes much more sense to focus on that.)
- titojankowski 9y agohttp://www.climeworks.com http://www.climeworks.com Cool company, and a serious looking machine, thanks for sharing! I also like what they're up to at OakBio: http://www.oakbio.com http://www.oakbio.com tito@impossiblelabs.io