Re:Is carbon capture a viable solution?
by contravariant on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:38AM
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You're worrying about the wrong part of the equation, the main problem is going to be what you're going to do with the oxygen. There's a reason why so many things tend to react violently with pure oxygen, to the point that we have an entire vocabulary dedicated just to that one class of reactions.
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Re:Is carbon capture a viable solution?
by dan-robertson on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @08:07AM
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I’m replying to a commenter who claims that it is thermodynamically impossible to extract energy from fossil fuels while capturing the carbon (ie not releasing CO2 into the environment). Obviously some chemistry needs to happen but I claim it is possible to still get net energy out while somehow capturing the CO2.
See this page: https://longitudinal.blog/co2-series-part-2-co2-removal/ with the bit that starts “Note: Interestingly, this is all much less than the heat of combustion”