Carbon Engineering’s air contactor passes ambient air through liquid to produce a carbon dioxide-rich solution.
sigh....
OH NO ive just created MORE Carbon DIoxide
run away run away
Someone should study plant growth in the immeadiate area. Then rub their noses in it when it decreases.
Stop this immediately! This is going to make global cooling worse.
Oh, no! The scientist’s life is in danger, just like the guy they killed that invented the Fisch carburetor...
I’ve got a whole bunch of fuel-creating carbon-capture facilities in my back yard.
They’re even solar-powered.
Somebody or several somebodies are going to make a crapload of money redemonstrating one or two of Newton’s laws of thermodynamics or Kekule’s law or some combination of already known laws of physics.
It will take LOTS more energy to run the intake fans and synthesize the fuel from atmospheric CO2 than comes out when you burn whatever is made from the gathered-up CO2, probably methane, a lowish power fuel. But if you get free solar panels and free batteries and free land and free employees and tax benefits and ignore the cost of getting the fuel to market and what the fuel can deliver to work-producing gears or wheels, then you can bite my Solyndra.
Every time they start using those Atmosphere Processors, bad things happen.
They make great Nesting places for some Species I hear.
There’s a word that keeps echoing in my mind. Although the process described is not related to solar or electricity, per se, the thought that this could become a paying proposition any time soon, brings that echoing word to my mind....SOLYNDRA.
I’m glad it’s Canadian tax money that’s going up in smoke in this situation, and not American greenbacks,
Sounds like a Forest inside a Box.
Paging Bruce Dern.
“The full system is relatively energy-intensive, which means that cheap, low-carbon power generation, most likely from solar power, will eventually be needed to make the energy economics work.”
This is such claptrap.
I’d like to contribute but I don’t want to be crude. It is but a fleeting opportunity.
Wait till the trees start dying.
Finally! Now maybe the price of pencils will come down.
Hmmmmm ..?? What are the trees and plants going to do when their main life force (CO2) is removed from the air ..????
And .. what are humans going to do when the trees do not have enough CO2 (carbon dioxide) .. in order to produce Oxygen for humans to breathe ..??????????
Guess all those genius scientists have not figured that out yet .. Hmmmmm ..???????????????
What needs to be removed is CARBON MONOXIDE (FROM CARBON FUELS) .. NOT DIOXIDE (which is what we exhale).
NOW .. does anybody understand why the “scientists” keep insisting it’s the humans who are causing all the problems .. and they have to find a way to punish us for BREATHEING.
Trees are cheaper.
“The full system is relatively energy-intensive”
Reading the process description, this is an energy pig. They should burn cheap natural gas to provide the power :)
Maybe we can get a final estimate on when this carbon capture device will have recovered enough carbon to account for its own existence on day one of its life. That way, we'll have a good idea of the anticipated utility of the project.
Museum quality dumb
A solution in search of a problem.