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Unless you have local clients at every offload station, you find yourself in the position to burn more diesel to ship the liqufied carbon to consumers of it - i
by rkalla 6y ago
Unless you have local clients at every offload station, you find yourself in the position to burn more diesel to ship the liqufied carbon to consumers of it - is locking down routes/offload site/consumers all in the same 30 mile radiuses part of the rollout?
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- paulgross 6y agoAbsolutely. One of our first pilot offloading stations is actually about 6 miles from a concrete producer. The other piece is that we'll add our technology to the tanker trucks that are transporting the CO2. It'll take us a few more years to get close to 100% capture, so between now and then, we won't be able to fully mitigate those extra emissions, which is why initially we're working with end users that are very close to our offload stations.
- core-questions 6y agoWho consumes it, anyhow? What is it useful for? Can it simply be stored somewhere in mostly inert form? Can we pour it into a cave or a fracking hole or something and just let it be? Or does it turn back into a gas and escape?
- HardEric 6y agothere are lots of uses for concentrated CO2. A few current uses include dry ice (shipping vaccines or other medical supplies), green houses, concrete, beverage carbonization, pumping it under ground into depleted oil wells for permanent storage, and refrigeration cycles. There are also a lot of technologies in progress to use CO2, such as turning it right back into synthetic fuels! The list goes on and seems to be growing by the day.
- alach11 6y agoInjected CO2 is also highly effective at sweeping stored oil and gas out of the reservoir to (ironically) help you produce more oil and gas. My company uses CO2 extensively in its older fields in the Permian Basin.