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I like that rendering of the 1MW system. And you can see they are making progress in the lab on the technologies for each of the modules, with some very accomp
by fuzzfactor 4y ago
I like that rendering of the 1MW system.
And you can see they are making progress in the lab on the technologies for each of the modules, with some very accomplished operators.
There is a lot of advanced back-of-the-envelope math and toward the end it says they can estimate breaking even with about 500 of the 1MW systems delivered.
Now when you make 500 of anything you really can not make money on every single one, and what the world really needs most of all is the carbon capture.
What I would like to see built is the 1MW scale carbon capture unit in the rendering, and expect it would take fewer than the full array of solar cells to operate.
That little system could give out some real numbers itself, and de-risk decision-making for the other modules at that scale. Even if there is no salable fuel output to offset operating costs, this would be the ideal demo and at least it would be actually removing atmospheric CO2 each time it was functioning.
And it would cost less to build and be faster to do than one of the hundreds of complete 1MW fuel-producing systems they are going to be building ASAP anyway.