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> So if you can do carbon capture for less than $150/tCO2 it would make more sense to sell the fuel and capture more carbon. How does this math work? If it's
by nomel 4y ago
> So if you can do carbon capture for less than $150/tCO2 it would make more sense to sell the fuel and capture more carbon.
How does this math work?
If it's $149 to recapture, who's paying for this $149? Is the person buying $150 worth of fuel now paying for it also, at ($150 + recapture cost)/gallon?
- blackoil 4y agoI believe the idea is to sell captured carbon to be used as fuel. So we are net 0.
- aziaziazi 4y agoThat would be valid once we stop extracting carbons from other sources (oil, gaz, coil…). Since that won’t happen at a global scale soon, burning the captured carbon won’t stop the carbonification of the air/water.
- tinco 4y agoThe $1 profit goes towards paying for capturing carbon. Every 150 barrels of captured fuel you sell, you make $75 profit you could spend on either not selling a barrel, or some more efficient way of reducing our climate impact like maybe buying a solar panel or sponsoring a windmill. Or what the sibling suggests, you keep the money as profit / funds for growing the business so you displace traditional oil and you prevent the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere that way.