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Dinosaurs that roamed the Earth 250 million years ago knew a world with five times more carbon dioxide than is present on Earth today, researchers say, and new techniques for estimating the amount of carbon dioxide on prehistoric Earth may help scientists predict how Earth's climate may change in the future.
originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
Ooohh! It is online! Cool!
They are sitting on a gold mine and don't even know it. If I was them, I would get a supercritical CO2 turbine like the one linked below. Then you put electricity back on the grid and make money. When your done using the CO2 you sell it to customers and make money. Nobody buying? Use some of the electricity, and a catalyst, and turn it into carbon nanotubes and sell those and make money. You could make either precursor chemicals, sell those, and make money. Or just make ethanol yourself, sell that, and make money.
They just need to realize that it is FREE CO2. And then, make money. You can brag to the ladies that you are saving the environment while you make money from thin air.
UtilityDrive.com - Toshiba ships turbine for NET Power supercritical CO2 carbon capture plant
originally posted by: TEOTWAWKIAIFF
a reply to: network dude
They're in Switzerland. Trump can't baby Huey all over them. Besides, all the money has been spent by Obama's push and is already making this technology happen. Trump is late and they started the party without out him. Same with green batteries for grid-level storage and coal.
In addition to electrical energy the Climeworks process requires hot water at 100 °C and cooling water at -15 °C. Climeworks Plants are engineered for integration of customer utilities if available to optimize energy consumption. In the absence of available heating and cooling Climeworks offers pre-engineered optional solutions.
Future direct-air capture plants will cost up to $400 per metric ton of captured carbon dioxide to operate, Gebald said, with carbon sequestration adding an additional $10-$20 to that cost per ton.