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flue gas with high CO2 concentrations Wouldn't such a technology be useful in "scrubbing" exhaust from electrical plants, at least?
by masonic 9y ago
flue gas with high CO2 concentrations
Wouldn't such a technology be useful in "scrubbing" exhaust from electrical plants, at least?
- wffurr 9y agoThe power requirements are such that you could just deliver that power to the grid in place of the fossil fuel generated power you are cleaning.
- neltnerb 9y agoExactly. The maximum efficiency of conversion to electricity in a thermal plant is maybe 30-40% even ignoring losses in converting back to hydrocarbons. But even 99% would be a loss relative to simply using the original hydrocarbons. This is a rube goldberg machine, taking high value hydrocarbons that could be converted to commodity and fine chemicals and instead burning them and taking the released carbon and... putting it back together? It's not even a very efficient perpetual motion machine.