Re:Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at i...
by markcyffka on Thursday March 17, 2022 @03:26PM
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We agree that saline aquifers are be a compelling strategy given the huge volumes available & measurement capabilities you mentioned. As verification standards emerge in the (currently nascent & somewhat fragmented) CO2 removal ecosystem, precise & accurate quantification is going to be a huge driver to differentiate the highest-quality CO2 removal solutions.
Re:Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at i...
by samstave on Thursday March 17, 2022 @01:20PM
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Thats only 6,250 gallons of water.. less than a single 10K water truck you've seen everywhere.
THe question is how many tons does this plan to produce over what period?
Re:Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at i...
by yodon on Thursday March 17, 2022 @01:32PM
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If you want to delay the impact of climate change by 1 year by sequestering one year of of CO2 added to the environment through saline sequestration, that's about 40 billion 10K water trucks worth of storage, or about 40 Lake Tahoes turned into saline storage ponds, and you need to add that much storage capacity every year just to keep atmospheric CO2 from getting worse than it is (you're not yet to the scale of reducing atmospheric CO2 at this rate). The oceans have enough volume for this, but most other containers are too small to be meaningful.
Re:Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at i...
by layoric on Saturday March 19, 2022 @06:39AM
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Hopefully this will help people realize it will be a lot more impactful to reduce GHG emissions as a priority rather than focusing on trying to capture and store the growing output. Yes both can help, but first stop the bleeding.
Re:Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at i...
by samstave on Saturday March 19, 2022 @12:05PM
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K, I would like to pose the following Q
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What ~~would be the balance btwn the effort for climate change, vs,~~
What the heck are we doing?
We keep talk of CO2 offsets, and Sequestering...
WE FUCKING NEVER SPEAK OF PROCESS OPTIMIAZATION WHICH REDUCE CO2 T BEGIN WITH??? !!!
Band-aid much bitch. WTF?!
Re:Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at i...
by jamiek88 on Friday March 18, 2022 @02:42AM
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It’s hopeless.
Feel so powerless.
Re:Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at i...
by ben_w on Friday March 18, 2022 @06:52AM
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Why? There are ~8 billion humans to get stuff done — it’s not all on your shoulders. Even if only 1% of the world both can and will fix it, it’s still in the realm of stuff that can be fixed.
Re:Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at i...
by samstave on Saturday March 19, 2022 @11:53AM
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and zero fictitious dollars to fund such motivation to fix.
Only dollars too fund(sustain) suppression....
Re:Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at i...
by ben_w on Saturday March 19, 2022 @12:57PM
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"""Amid the COVID-19 crisis, the global market for Clean Energy Technologies estimated at US$283.9 Billion in the year 2020, is projected to reach a revised size of US$452.8 Billion by 2027""" - https://www.reportlinker.com/p05817952/Global-Clean-Energy-T...
And that’s just the people who want to get rich while saving the world, not charities like Greenpeace, or government interventions like Feed-In Tariffs and fuel taxes.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015WR01...
Capturing CO2 from a power plant, biofuel factory, oil refinery, petrochemical plant or other point source and disposing of it underground is a developed technology. Very little of that is happening because the financial incentives aren't there and the financial incentives that do exist go to carbon sequestration schemes which are low-cost, low-quality and generally not measurable (pay us $ and we won't cut down these trees... for now, let's crush some rocks and apply sand to the beach and hope for the best, ...)
With aquifer injection you can measure the gas going in but there are also questions such as: how long does the CO2 stay there? do you have seismic problems?
This scheme is similar to aquifer injection but is more secure at the expense of requiring unusual rock formations and 25 tons of water for every ton of CO2 captured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbfix
I think it gets way too much press but assuming energy is available you can build a direct air capture in a place where you have reactive rocks and water.