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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The ability to make fuel from atmospheric CO2 is not new, the big questions are efficiency and cost. The Prometheus process is ~50-60% efficient, electricity to chemical. Then you burn it in your ~25-35% efficient car engine and get 10~20%, electricity to mechanical.
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So we're already an order of magnitude worse than using electricity to charge batteries to power motors, and we haven't paid for the CO2 capture or the factory yet.
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