The carbon capture con

American Thinker ^ | 05/10/2024 | Viv Forbes

[kaktuskid]

Is there not a commercial market for CO2? Beer, soft drinks, baking, etc.

[stremba]

Yes (for soft drinks anyway. CO2 arises during the fermentation process that occurs during beer production and dough rising) but not enough demand to match the production of CO2 by power plants and vehicle emissions. Plus there is a purity issue. CO2 in the capture BS could contain all kinds of impurities. CO2 for beverage use must be relatively pure or it will affect the flavor of the final product.

[GenXPolymath]

“With time, heat, and pressure, wouldn’t
Carbon Capture make... ..coal?”

Not coal no. Coal is the remains of swamp plants you need a certain carbon to hydrogen ratio for coal.

CO2 has no hydrogen and the rocks it is injected into would not have much either chemically bonded in them. Sandstone is SiO4 silicates mostly. I guess under near mantle conditions you might get graphite and the oxygen would bind to the silicate host rocks in a SiO6 octahedra. Graphite<> coal plus it would be so deep as to never be exploitable as a carbon source at that point.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, from Indiana, this past March...

Irving-Based Heidelberg Materials Could Get Up to $500M DOE Funding for Cement Plant Decarbonization Heidelberg said the project is aimed at advancing decarbonization efforts at its new "state-of-the-art" cement plant in Mitchell, Indiana. The funding will help create "the first full-scale deployment of carbon capture and storage on a cement plant in the U.S.," says CEO Chris Ward.