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So, you burn coal, then feed the CO2 to algae and together with solar energy, it binds it back to some relatively storable form. What's the quantitative differ
by Gravityloss 8y ago
So, you burn coal, then feed the CO2 to algae and together with solar energy, it binds it back to some relatively storable form.
What's the quantitative difference compared to not building a coal plant, a coal mine, transportation network and the algae plant, and instead building solar panels and wind turbines and feeding the electricity to the grid?
- maxbond 8y agoI don't have numbers for you, and I don't buy "clean coal", but I would counter with this question; is it better to build a solar or wind farm, or to retrofit a coal fired power plant to burn algae? And then to recycle that carbon into more algae? Isn't that a kind of solar power plant? (Getting your hands of negatively-value nutrients in order to make the system work is left as an exercise. Or I just don't have all the answers.)