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I'm worried that legitimate schemes are being lost in this movement to declare carbon capture as a distraction. Coal companies talking about carbon sequestrati
by sandworm101 5y ago
I'm worried that legitimate schemes are being lost in this movement to declare carbon capture as a distraction. Coal companies talking about carbon sequestration, pumping their exhaust back underground, is definitely a distraction. But some of the fuel-from-air initiatives are not.
If we can use electricity to generate hydrocarbons from water and atmospheric CO2 then we can revolutionize transport without relying on batteries. Fuel made from air could be used just like any other hydrocarbon. It isn't economical yet, but that doesn't mean it is a delay tactic. Such schemes offer actual practical answers.
- nradov 5y agoYes this appears to be the only practical answer for long distance marine and air transport. We're not going to be flying battery powered airliners from New York to London.
- sandworm101 5y agoPeople are talking about hydrogen-powered aircraft. For all the effort needed to compress/liquify/store hydrogen, it has to be cheaper to make diesel out of CO2+Water.
- pjc50 5y agoI keep mentioning this whenever the subject is brought up: https://www.zmescience.com/research/us-navy-synthetic-jet-fuel-seawater-0423432/ https://www.zmescience.com/research/us-navy-synthetic-jet-fu... I've no idea whether it's been production scaled yet.
- nradov 5y agoIt hasn't been production scaled yet but the US Navy has been at the forefront of synthetic fuels research for years. Their objective is to reduce the logistic train for a Carrier Strike Force by using power from nuclear reactors to manufacture aviation fuel on site rather than relying on tankers.