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You could certainly do this, using distillation or the thermal processes Carbon Engineering is doing, and it could be worth pursuing, from a business opportunit
by rmcginnis 7y ago
You could certainly do this, using distillation or the thermal processes Carbon Engineering is doing, and it could be worth pursuing, from a business opportunity perspective. We're focused on an implementation that can scale to >300 B gallons per year, so are pursuing an electricity only path.
- rfrey 7y agoThanks. If the scale is lacking, I get it. But to be clear, I’m talking about a series of 10MW electrical power plants each with 95% capacity factor. Using your number downthread of 60kW/gallon, that translates to about 1.4 million gallons per station per annum - even with dozens of stations per line, a couple of orders of magnitude less than your target opportunity of 300B gallons+. Would you be willing to expand a bit on your opportunity target of 300B+ gallons/year? My understanding is that the US production of gasoline in 2018 was about 142 billion gallons, so I certainly misunderstand something.
- teraflop 7y agoTo put this number in perspective: 300B gallons of gasoline is an amount of carbon equivalent to all of the CO2 in the air above all of the earth's land area, up to an altitude of about 80 feet. If you can pull that off, I'll be impressed; but it seems like a very aggressive target.
- rmcginnis 7y agoIt's about half of global annual gasoline consumption. It's going to be hard, but worth it to try.