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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2017-06-07 12:00 pm
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2017-06-08 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
My expectation is that they are benefiting from some form of subsidy for the technology and capital costs and getting the benefit of cheap waste heat.

In a future where non-dispachable renewables make up a large part of the electricity supply I think this is the sort of thing you might use to take up surplus power for grid balancing with a useful product.

I'm not sure what you do to sequester the carbon. I saw some suggesting just dumping blocks of pure carbon covered in concrete in subduction zones on the sea floor and thus inserting the carbon in to the lithosphere. I wonder if you could use it to make construction diamond and if so, would replacing all our built infrastructure over 200 year with diamond instead of concrete and steel. I don't know how much the built environment weighs if built of diamond.
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[personal profile] danieldwilliam 2017-06-09 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Once you have the CO2 out of the atmosphere you can turn it in to carbon if you throw enough energy at it.