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It's such an easy, relevant question to ask that it boggles the mind that investors don't have their own engineers to ask it. I know you're money people not tec
by yodelshady 3y ago
It's such an easy, relevant question to ask that it boggles the mind that investors don't have their own engineers to ask it. I know you're money people not tech, but how do you know you're not being ripped off if you can't check figures that basic?
Anyway, apparently 3 MWh/tonne is a not-unrealistic claim, so they're only demanding 1.5 MW (on average, though if solar-powered it would make sense to oversize) and a km2 of solar panels could reasonably generate 50-100 MW on average (this is conservative for most places, though not for Iceland). A km2 of tress, by their calculations, gets 1,000 tonnes, so DAC comes out ahead, although you're right to observe that trees do have a synergistic use for the carbon they capture.
- jackmott42 3y agoWelcome to planet Earth. If you can do napkin math, and bother to do it, you can be an extremely successful in engineering domains, because almost everyone else is completely useless.
- maigret 3y agoNapkin math is an underestimated skill indeed.
- hef19898 3y agoEarly investors, it seems, don't care. All they care about is whether or not they can sell their shares to some greater idiot down the line. Heck, those money people don't even care about money questions. Examples of non-existing due dilligence include: WeWork, Theranos, Nikola, FTX. Just from top of my head.