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Re:Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, f... by shosti on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:40AM (#38265672)
> According to [2], the cost to reclaim CO2 from natural gas sources is approximately $90 per ton on the high end

I may be reading that wrong, but I'm pretty sure that refers to the CCS cost when you capture at use (e.g. in a power plant). You can't really use CCS when you're heating a house, so the right price to compare to would be direct air capture which is an order of magnitude more expensive IIUC.

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Re:Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, f... by archontes on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:41AM (#38265706)
Let's see if we can fix that.

Found this article: https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-much-captured-co2-worth that suggests it's about twice as expensive. Though it seems that's the credit that the government pays, not the cost.

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Re:Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, f... by shosti on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @12:07PM (#38266104)
https://www.iea.org/reports/direct-air-capture-2022/executiv... suggests $125-$335 per ton, so not quite an order of magnitude but still a big difference for CCS.
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