The Carbon Removal X-Prize entries must remove at least 1 ton per day. Assuming that is a metric ton of carbon, that means 3.7 tons of CO2, which is 3360 liters of liquid CO2, or 140 liters per hour. Someone is going to win $50M for this flow rate.pic.twitter.com/7OWenhwBlj
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Solar power+CO2 into liquid fuel sounds good. I'm just noting that reducing CO2->C+O2 takes the same energy as you get from combusting C+O2->CO2. So if you're talking about reducing the atmospheric CO2 that all engines and power plants have made for the last 100 years...
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That's if you want to reverse all added CO2, which we wouldn't have to do for a while, if that's a meaningful goal. But the ability to make all gasoline, jet fuel, etc carbon neutral in the future is pretty big.
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Definitely good for jets since we still don't have better alternatives. For cars I wish an even faster phasing out of IC engines, since they also emit other air pollutants (brake discs, NO2, etc).
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It may be that green fuel and IC engines will be cheaper, longer range, and better for the environment than big lithium batteries.
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