CO2 capture: a cost curve?
…place next on the cost curve and could each have GTpa scale. Power stations place next, at $60-100/ton. DAC is conceptually attractive, as the only carbon negative technology, but if…
…place next on the cost curve and could each have GTpa scale. Power stations place next, at $60-100/ton. DAC is conceptually attractive, as the only carbon negative technology, but if…
…by 3-5x (note here). But we think AI can likely double the utilization rates of grid infrastructure (pages 13-14). How will AI reshape CCS and DAC value chains? The thermodynamic…
…long way below high cost technologies, such as DAC credits at $200-1,000/ton (how much do you have to hate nature, to pay $1,000/ton for a DAC credit rather than $50/ton…
…CCS or DAC. Today’s CCS and DAC processes are only 5-10% efficient, compared to their therodynamic minimum energy, and we increasingly wonder whether AI engines can help to develop sorbents…
…hydrogen, CO2-EOR and novel combustion and next-gen DAC. We think c1GTpa will be in the US. CO2 purity must be >90%, ideally >97%. This is the largest new growth opportunity…
…solid sorbents and molecular sieves. For an overview, see our note into swing adsorption. But we think the most interesting read across from our gas dehydration model is for CCS/DAC….
…batteries, flow batteries, thermal batteries, SSBs, heat pumps, fusion, geothermal, CCS, DAC, blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, electrofuels, biofuels, landfill gas, biomass, biochar, nature. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/11/16/renewable-heavy-grids-dividing-the-pie/ Energy efficiency technologies from first principles: EROEI, electric…
…of CO2 disposal, across various technologies, from straight-run amine CCS, to DAC, CO2-EOR, blue hydrogen SMRs and ATRs, oxy-combustion, potassium carbonate, other sorbents, next-gen membranes. But what CO2 purity levels…
…they are also slow. CCS and DAC are much faster at absorbing CO2, but the very reason they work faster is that more energy is being injected into these reactions….
…as CCS and DAC projects? Statistical distributions are also explored in this data-file, as there are clearly going to be ‘uncertainties’ in natural remediation projects: both implementing the projects over…