Lots of people think they have the next great idea. Few make it.

I haven’t.

If you’ve got a solution we’ll see US coal plants installing your hardware. That happens and successful gets carbon back underground where it belongs and I’ll spring for dinner at a first class restaurant. You can order the diet special if you like and use the desert money for the tip.

Yet, if you are real and you represent a company that is interested in what we do, we can set you and another person from your company up for a visit. Visit us, and then we will provide the years of track record… Oh…but, be ready to sign an NDA first, that is if your company wants more info. By the way, we have a environmental attorney working with us… care to speak with her?

I’m not so excited about a system that captures the carbon from smokestacks and give is a second spin through ICEVs where it ends up as CO2 in our atmosphere. We don’t need to go that route.

That’s a system which transforms our current dirty coal plants into benign sources of electricity and is cheap enough that companies readily install.

Get that system up and running, get a verifiable track record and I’ll part with the bucks. I’ll even throw in a bouquet for your dinner table.

Hell, I’ll send you a gallon of Schweddy Balls or any other Ben and Jerry’s flavor of your choice.

Cars spend about 90% of their lives parked. Plugging in takes little effort and we’ve got fairly effective plug-less charging. (It’s 80% – 90% efficient but could be improved.)

Few people will need their EVs 100% charged all the time. EVs can soak up peak supply when the Sun is high or the wind is strong. Then they can stop charging when supply drops. This will greatly reduce the amount of storage needed. A recent study found that two million EVs would allow the Pacific Northwest to install an additional 10GW of wind generation without adding storage.

Electric motors are so efficient that they are almost certain to win out over internal combustion engines.

Wind and solar are good electricity producers, but electrical storage is still expensive and difficult. Liquid fuels are great energy storage mechanisms. You could eventually use the wind-everywhere solar-everywhere to produce the fuels from CO2 and still be net C nuetral in the atmosphere. So the technology, if it actually exists, would still be worth pursuing.

My concern if it does work is that it could give people the impression that switching to renewables wasn’t as critical an issue as it is. If it were to expose the true cost of CO2 then it would, as you note, be a good outcome. Bob W seems to agree on the “continuing to burn coal” claim.

But my assertion that it still will cause a net gain in atmospheric CO2 is, I believe true and why this should only be thought of as a way to minimize our impact on the atmosphere (while) we are ramping up the technologies that produce NO CO2. This is where having a serious “ENERGY POLICY” that is geared toward solving this perplexing and profoundly dangerous problem (and not kowtowing to the vested interests that routinely bribe politicians) is an imperative. This is going to be a long hard climb and a multi-pronged approach will be required. (but I assume that everyone here already knows that).

Cheers all and u2 AK,
Ed

But this technology is not a CO2 solution based on the information presented so far. All it is likely to do is to stall/slow the removal of coal from the grid.

*A couple of decades is ‘worst case’, IMO. If we look at the recent incredible flooding the world has experienced along with the crop-destroying heat waves and pair that with what looks to be a summer melt-out of Arctic sea ice in the next few years, it may be that the 71% of Americans who now want something done about CO2 with be insistent that something be done about CO2. If that happens I can see the possibility of eliminating coal in well less than 20 years.

Please dig up the industrial use that re-sequesters all this carbon that we will be creating.

All this would do is to continue the lifespan of burning coal.

I suspect this is a complete line of crap that someone is trying to feed us. (I’ll be glad to apologize if proved incorrect.) It’s a ‘bright-shiny’. a distracter to take some pressure off the coal industry so that they can continue to do business as usual for a few more years while this idea is researched.