A New US Plant Will Use Captured CO2 to Make Millions of Gallons of Jet Fuel
https:// singularityhub.com /2023/07/31/a-new-us-plant-will-use-captured-co2-to-make-millions-of-gallons-of-jet-fuel/ A New US Plant Will Use Captured CO2 to Make Millions of Gallons of Jet Fuel
A New US Plant Will Use Captured CO2 to Make Millions of Gallons of Jet Fuel::Replacing half of a plane’s regular fuel with CO2-derived fuel can result in 90 percent fewer lifecycle emissions.
Isn’t the point of carbon capture to remove emissions from the atmosphere? Someone please correct me if I’m wrong but this company sounds like it’s taking captured CO2 and guaranteeing that it gets released straight into the upper atmosphere where it’s nearly impossible to recapture. Unless I’m misunderstanding, this doesn’t seem like it’s any better than generating fuel from crude
30Yeah, though it’s better than releasing new CO2 that is still in the ground. Just re-releasing already released CO2.
It would be nice if a company or government focused on capturing the CO2 and not releasing it again.
11It would be nice if a company or government focused on capturing the CO2 and not releasing it again.
Climeworks and Carbfix do that:
- capture atmospheric CO2
- dissolve the CO₂ in water – sparkling water of sorts
- pump it underground into basalt rock
- there it forms solid carbonate minerals via natural processes
I hope techniques like these become included in carbon pricing. They cause negative emissions = they get paid.
5Agreed, it's a half step forward. Leaving fossil fuels underground is still progress, even if we aren't sequestering CO2 in the atmosphere.
I'm optimistic that building a market like this can drive design efficiency for direct air capture tech. If that efficiency is improved it could make capture and sequestration a more plausible option for govts in the future.
Fingers crossed!
3Ahh cant wait to have CO2 cycles like we do El nino and el nina...
Quarterly reports are in, profits are booming! We will be cutting fuel production, hence stagnating metric tons of CO2 in the air until the next quarterly reports!
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Not much else to say except yes you're right. Unfortunately, the average person doesn't care or understand the difference.
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Carbon capture technology is fundamentally flawed and is used by corps for greenwash
27You mean carbon credits right? This sounds like legit tech. Do you have info on why it's flawed? I'd love to read up on it.
5There are different ways to do it, some decent, some bullshit. And it's only useful if it's powered by renewable energy like wind/solar. But it's largely unregulated, so a lot of corps grossly overestimate the amount of carbon they're capturing. Or just flat out lie.
The main problem is that it's presented as some sort of big solution, when it's more like putting a SpongeBob band-aid on a gunshot wound. Corps use it to justify continuing to fuck the atmosphere with things like....jet fuel, for example.
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Climate Town tackled carbon capture very well in this video. In short, hardcore greenwashing.
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A plant that captures Co2? So trees? Are we going to use wood as a jet fuel?
15Attach wings to old steam trains?
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6Anyone point me at some papers or write ups on how DAC works these days? I think I looked at a high level when the swiss plan opened and it was just "push hot emissions through a filter and magic happens".
5I'm no longer dumping my trash in landfills, I'm burning it instead.
1...but can this jet fuel melt steel beams?
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