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To: Stosh
By the way, Li3N will be very water sensitive, so much so that I expect it will react spontaneously with moisture in the atmosphere, which will further complicate any real use of this system.

A bigger complication: you get Li3N by exposing Li to nitrogen. Refining lithium, however, consumes 35 kWh/kg. In comparison, burning one kg of coal produces just 2 kWh of heat energy (and much less than that in actual electrical output)

21 posted on 05/21/2012 6:22:54 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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To: PapaBear3625
17.5 X Coal energy cost -- forget it!

Bingo! The answer as to why this will remain a laboratory curiosity -- at least as far as disposal of CO2 is concerned.

IF somone develops a semiconductor process/product based on the reaction product, a few Kg of CO2 might be sequestered by it. Qtherwise, it is a mere curiosity...

Of course, let me be the first to point out that there is ZERO need to "sequester" atmospheric CO2 in the first place...

26 posted on 05/21/2012 8:59:12 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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