Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at industrial scale

Re:Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at i... by photochemsyn on Thursday March 17, 2022 @02:35PM (#30714433)

Does that exclude the energy cost involved in injecting CO2 into a reservoir? Also, what would be the energy cost of converting captured CO2 to a more stable form (CaCO3, aka limestone), or a commodity such as methanol?

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Re:Launch HN: AirMyne (YC W22) – Capturing CO2 from air at i... by markcyffka on Thursday March 17, 2022 @04:20PM (#30715458)

The energy estimate includes the costs of compression & injection using some figures in publicly available resources that look at CO2 removal end-to-end. Co-locating the capture as close as possible to removal/injection site (e.g. minimizing transit logistics) helps to keep the energy & financial costs low.

However at this stage, we are more focused on scaling our capture process so it can be integrated to injection/sequestration later on at a pilot plant scale.

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