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Re:So you want to build a carbon capture company by pjc50 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:30AM (#27035557)
Algal systems are ecosystems, and artificial ecosystems are (ironically) prone to collapse. It's like waking up one day and discovering all your houseplants have died, except it's a thousand tonnes of now-dead gunk in your algae bioreactor.
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Re:So you want to build a carbon capture company by corty on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:52AM (#27035683)
Doesn't matter since you want to dump the gunk somewhere anyways. Just dump it and start over.
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Re:So you want to build a carbon capture company by bobthepanda on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:33AM (#27038692)
Losing entire batches of your product on a regular basis is pretty bad for a commercial product
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Re:So you want to build a carbon capture company by corty on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:45AM (#27038842)
It is not lost, just a little more dilute than usual, and the gunk is not the end product, just a step in between. It is like prematurely harvesting grass. You get shorter stalks, and some extra work, that is all.
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Re:So you want to build a carbon capture company by bobthepanda on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @09:58PM (#27058282)
Extra work can make a difference if you are trying to get to competitive with fossil fuels and electricity.
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Re:So you want to build a carbon capture company by pjc50 on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @04:39AM (#27047570)
It's not the loss of the product but the process; you have to start it up again. Like accidentally killing your sourdough starter.
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