The carbon capture company Climeworks only captures a fraction of the CO2 it promises its machines can capture. The company is failing to carbon offset the emissions resulting from its operations – which have grown rapidly in recent years.
They are not doing some “reverse energy consumption” (which would break at least 1 law of TD if successful) so as long as they don’t emit more co2 than they capture there are net benefits.
I said fighting against the laws of thermodynamics.
Look at entropy in Direct Air Capture in https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsengineeringau.2c00043
What is missing in above is renewable energy infrastructure capable of rebuilding itself, rebuilding the DAC infrastructure and also powering it, and also provide enough surplus for infrastructure growth, using only non-fossil input.
You might find replicating fully autopoietic biological photosynthesis a remarkably hard task.
Mhm. Using which energy sources?
They are not doing some “reverse energy consumption” (which would break at least 1 law of TD if successful) so as long as they don’t emit more co2 than they capture there are net benefits.
Common, it’s not that hard.
So where is the energy for capture and injection coming from?
Why are they unable to even negate their own footprint?
Ask them.
It’s more or less research. Hopefully they will optimise their energy usage.
I was trying to make you think but failed.
You’re just sealioning lol.
My bad. I thought I was just providing leading questions. Oh, well.
Explain why it would break a TD law if you’re serious (it doesn’t but I don’t understand why you think it would).
I said fighting against the laws of thermodynamics.
Look at entropy in Direct Air Capture in https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsengineeringau.2c00043 What is missing in above is renewable energy infrastructure capable of rebuilding itself, rebuilding the DAC infrastructure and also powering it, and also provide enough surplus for infrastructure growth, using only non-fossil input.
You might find replicating fully autopoietic biological photosynthesis a remarkably hard task.