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
Yeah, 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.
Climeworks and Carbfix do that:
I hope techniques like these become included in carbon pricing. They cause negative emissions = they get paid.
Agreed, 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!
Ahh 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!
Not much else to say except yes you're right. Unfortunately, the average person doesn't care or understand the difference.
It is an important difference though. Theoretically this could make aviation carbon neutral. We could also find a deep hole in the ground to pump it so it is stored, though presumably we could turn it into something more inert than jet fuel.