Climeworks' capture fails to cover its own emissions

9 jacobgorm 1 5/17/2025, 9:59:57 PM heimildin.is ↗

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metalman · 25m ago
It's not surprising that they have failed.When these scheams were anounced it went against everything I know about mechanical efficiency and the imense amount of energy used by the large compressors and gas seperating equipment reqired, transportation and infrastructure are also very large. Details have been scarce on exactly how the plants would work, which was troubling as the whole exercise is dependent on very specific technical details, and of course on the name plate information on the equipment, which with a pencil and paper will give a very good idea if it will work. Unfortunately there is still obfusication of just how bad the fail is.It looks like they are admitting that it consumed twice as much CO² as they captured, but I think that it's twice that, not counting infrastructure or grid losses, snd now decomishioning costs, so ball park at 10% and thats that. Still amazed it ever got started.