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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Nov 19, 2019 17:34:34 GMT -5
A clever new solar solution to one of the trickiest climate problemsYou can say what you want about the, um, convenient timing of a Bill Gates-backed start-up making their big announcement this week, but if this doesn't turn out to be Theranos-esque bullshit, it's legitimately exciting. Pretty much anything you'll read about climate change policy gets to industrial processes, concrete, etc. and goes, "Umm...hopefully if we do all the other stuff it will buy us enough time to figure something out?". So if they've legitimately figured out a way to at least put a sizable dent into industrial emissions, that's incredible.
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Post by nowimnothing on Nov 20, 2019 9:04:00 GMT -5
A clever new solar solution to one of the trickiest climate problemsYou can say what you want about the, um, convenient timing of a Bill Gates-backed start-up making their big announcement this week, but if this doesn't turn out to be Theranos-esque bullshit, it's legitimately exciting. Pretty much anything you'll read about climate change policy gets to industrial processes, concrete, etc. and goes, "Umm...hopefully if we do all the other stuff it will buy us enough time to figure something out?". So if they've legitimately figured out a way to at least put a sizable dent into industrial emissions, that's incredible. I am confused by the syngas aspect being carbon neutral. Sure it is produced in a renewable way, but it seems burning it would still release carbon. Maybe because the carbon was already in the ambient air to begin with? I guess the sun is adding energy to the process so it is not a perpetual motion machine but it still seems a bit too good to be true. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Nov 20, 2019 9:23:14 GMT -5
A clever new solar solution to one of the trickiest climate problemsYou can say what you want about the, um, convenient timing of a Bill Gates-backed start-up making their big announcement this week, but if this doesn't turn out to be Theranos-esque bullshit, it's legitimately exciting. Pretty much anything you'll read about climate change policy gets to industrial processes, concrete, etc. and goes, "Umm...hopefully if we do all the other stuff it will buy us enough time to figure something out?". So if they've legitimately figured out a way to at least put a sizable dent into industrial emissions, that's incredible. I am confused by the syngas aspect being carbon neutral. Sure it is produced in a renewable way, but it seems burning it would still release carbon. Maybe because the carbon was already in the ambient air to begin with? I guess the sun is adding energy to the process so it is not a perpetual motion machine but it still seems a bit too good to be true. Yea, I am only vaguely familiar with syngas, but I think you more or less have the right idea. It's kind of like the old "first reduce, then re-use, then recycle". We have a huge amount of carbon where we know the path to reducing or completely eliminating it through efficiency or electrification (power grid, building heat, ground transportation, etc.). My understanding of where syngas would be exciting is stuff like air travel, where we don't know how to do electric/battery planes, but recycling carbon already in the atmosphere, instead of releasing new carbon from the ground would be a massive improvement. I suspect you'd also have a reduction in emissions just by eliminating the extraction process, but I'm less sure on that. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Nov 22, 2019 16:37:27 GMT -5
nowimnothingLooks like lots of other people had similar questions and Dave Roberts is going to do a whole series getting into carbon capture and utilization Part 1
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Dec 11, 2019 11:21:13 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Dec 11, 2019 14:47:09 GMT -5
This is the second time you've gotten me to donate money. You should be in fundraising. |
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