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Yep. I think carbon capture machines and any technologies that are downstream would essentially run all out when energy is plentiful and super cheap, and shut o
by 7thaccount 5y ago
Yep. I think carbon capture machines and any technologies that are downstream would essentially run all out when energy is plentiful and super cheap, and shut off when wind/solar drop off.
For the past century, supply matches the demand. In the near future, demand will match the supply (more or less based off of economics).
- PaulHoule 5y agoHard to say. The Fischer-Tropsch process for making fuels was the last refuge of the desperate in the 20th century. (Nazi Germany, Apartheid South Africa) The main trouble is that making medium-chain length hydrocarbons requires balancing on a knife edge between reactions that want to break them down to methane or build them up to polyethylene. Avoiding the first requires running at low temperatures, the second can proceed so vigorously it can blow up the container. The result is a big machine that produces a small amount of product slowly. To justify the capital cost you really want to run it 24-7.