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Capturing CO2 to be burned elsewhere sounds like releasing half the CO2. Not great, but better?
by VectorLock 4y ago
Capturing CO2 to be burned elsewhere sounds like releasing half the CO2. Not great, but better?
- ncmncm 4y agoNo, it re-releases all of it.
- moralestapia 4y agoAnd a bit more because producing it wasn't free.
- VectorLock 4y agoBut then you're only releasing it once, rather than twice as much. Hence: half.
- ncmncm 4y agoNo, that makes no sense at all. You might as well say you sweat/piss out half as much water as you drink. No: all of it.
- VectorLock 4y agoYou have two things that burn fuel and produce CO2. Thing A burns fuel, its CO2 isn't released but captured. That captured CO2 fuel is then burned at Thing B and released. Half. (if you assume the energy from reprocessing the CO2 into fuel doesn't produce Co2 itself and comes from clean sources)
- ncmncm 4y agoX tons mined carbon in, X tons atmospheric carbon out. What you do with it on the way doesn't matter. What matters is purely carbon in the atmosphere. The only thing that does make a difference is if you succeed in getting the carbon back into the ground.