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I've read three articles talking about it on HN, but the science and models especially are shacky at best. Great models that will probably never work as intende
by orwin 6y ago
I've read three articles talking about it on HN, but the science and models especially are shacky at best. Great models that will probably never work as intended.
Oxydes are really, really stable, and CO2 is one. Destroying an oxyde will cost at least as much energy as creating one, but in reality it's about 3 time the expense for C02.
The chemical/mechanical solution i've seen on HN[0] with olivine and tidal energy is quite interesting (that how ocean keep themselves from turning too acidic with CO2 capture), but while i'm pretty sure the chemestry bit is true, their paper is not peer-reviewed and i'm a bit skeptic about how fast the carbon will be absorbed.
It feel like it's nearly as much a silver bullet as fusion and ambiant temperature supra-conductor. So not big oil.
[0]https://projectvesta.org/ https://projectvesta.org/
- gridlockd 6y agoIt will of course be cheaper to pump hydrocarbons out of the ground for a long time to come, but we have recognized that there's a problem with that. "Energy use" is the wrong way to look at it, because energy costs vary massively. A lot of renewable energy effectively goes to waste because there is no economical way to capture and store it.