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Re:Carbon dioxide extraction company Carbon Engineering rece... by abainbridge on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:26AM (#19580750)
They could put their plants next to wind farms that have over-capacity of what the local grid infrastructure can handle - ie on a windy day they make more electric than the grid can take. The air capture would only run on windy days. That might be a reasonable way to make jet fuel.
Re:Carbon dioxide extraction company Carbon Engineering rece... by Brakenshire on Friday April 05, 2019 @07:22AM (#19581467)
Yes, renewable energy is becoming very cheap per unit but intermittent, likely one of the ways we will tackle that is overbuilding supply, I think it’s likely we will have a class of industries popping up that can use cheap electricity available intermittently.
Re:Carbon dioxide extraction company Carbon Engineering rece... by JetSpiegel on Friday April 05, 2019 @02:15PM (#19585457)
Mining bitcoins on AWS spot instances.