Wow, Prometheus will capture CO2 for $36 per ton.https://www.prometheusfuels.com/on-the-road/happy-earth-day-our-co2-dac-cost-is-worlds-lowest …
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Replying to @paulg
Anyone else getting Theranos vibes? I’d love to believe this but seems too good to be true
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Replying to @dnsbty
I've heard similar numbers from at least two other startups.
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I would really like to see the math on this. Exceptional claims like this require exceptional evidence.
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My guess: this is the net loss after they sell the fuel, so it's the cost of displacing other carbon sources not creating a carbon sink.
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Which is still useful, don't get me wrong. But tougher to understand from a relative cost effectiveness perspective, at least for me.
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And it involves many assumptions that aren't spelled out - like the price they can sell the fuel at.
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🤷🏻♀️ Retweeted Gustaf Alströmer
hey, this video doesn’t answer all your questions, but it does answer some basics, like, it uses a waterfall with a grid for direct air capture, and the intermediate product is hexanol which they can separate out of water without distillation. i’m sure $36/ton isn’t proven yethttps://twitter.com/gustaf/status/1385362780451053569 …
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& i think Dustin is right, it’s definitely not $36 /ton for the carbon in the fuel, because that would be like an order of magnitude less than the present day crude oil price!
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Replying to @DanielleFong @ramez and
even so it would be a major result but... i wish they would include more information about future costs!
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