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This is really cool, I have a two questions the last one maybe a bit sillier than the first: - I'm not a chemist, maybe you said this implicitly, but roughly a
by twright 7y ago
This is really cool, I have a two questions the last one maybe a bit sillier than the first:
- I'm not a chemist, maybe you said this implicitly, but roughly at what rate would this capture a kilogram of carbon?
- Why did you choose the name 'Prometheus' the titan who created man, gave us fire, and as punishment for the latter part, had his liver eaten out by a vulture every day for eternity?
- ineedasername 7y agoHe wasn't quite punished for eternity, just for a very long time until Hercules set him free. Not sure what that means for the company, but if I worked there I wouldn't want to be the company's equivalent of the liver.
- rmcginnis 7y agoFirst question - each ton of CO2 captured is equivalent to approx. 113 gallons of renewable gasoline. If we replace all fossil gasoline in the US, for example, that's approx. 140 billion gallons, equivalent to approx. 1.2 Gigatons of CO2. You can more than double that for the world. If we include all liquid fuels (including heating), it's larger still. It's a hugely significant CO2 emissions reduction. Second question - I chose Prometheus because the story is that he gave us fire, and we have a responsibility to use it well. So far, not so good, but now we can do better. I imagine him saying "here's fire, don't screw it up".
- tofof 7y agoI believe you misread the first question. It wasn't asking for the numbers on the conversion from CO2 to gasoline; it was asking about the rate at which you remove CO2 from the air. What's the expected total removal per year in, say, your first, fifth, or tenth years of operation?
- __d 7y agoAssuming that the generated gasoline is used, there's ultimately nothing removed from the air. It does reduce or eliminate the need to source gasoline from "fossil" sources however.
- stronglikedan 7y ago> had...for eternity Has?