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How are you going to decide who doesn’t get any power after you reduce the output of the coal plant?

• rcxdude 3y ago
  The point is the carbon capture plant shouldn't get any power. For sure there is no point in running direct air capture from carbon-emitting power sources. (It may, but very unlikely, be worth running it from some fossil fuel station with carbon sequestration of its own, but these in effect don't really exist outside of a handful of not particularly successful test projects. Though direct air capture is kind of in the same position at the moment, so it's all basically just experimenting with the technology at the moment.)
  • sanderjd 3y ago
    This might make sense if there were a single big but scarce global bucket of instantaneously available energy. But that's not how it works. The availability of energy is incredibly skewed across location and time.
    • rcxdude 3y ago
      Indeed. I wasn't insinuating it never made sense to power something like this today, just that it only makes sense when there is excess renewables available.
      • sanderjd 3y ago
        Yes but there are excess renewables available, in many places at many times. So it's already the case that it makes sense to power something like this, in many places at many times.