My understanding is that you can generate California LCFS credits by storing DAC carbon anywhere on the planet. Which makes sense — emit in California, capture in Dubai, net zero. So yeah, if you had a plant and could do paperwork, you could do this transaction. Unless I misunderstood LCFS credits.

Which carbon price? LCFS credits are $60/t, down from >$200/t a few years ago.

Amine based processes don’t consume the absorbent. It’s regenerated when the acid gas (CO2 or whatever) is released. There are decades of data on these plants if you’re interested. For low concentration streams, like DAC, other absorbents are preferred.

would add more cost to a fairly marginal project. It’s an issue.

3) what do you do with the gas? You could flare it, or burn it to get your water hotter. But then you have CO2 emissions, obviating the environmental attributes you based your project around. Venting it is even worse. Capturing the emissions, or even just decompressing it to stuff down another hole,

1) now you have two-phase flow, and the pumps that can handle two-phase flow are more expensive 2) the gas bubbles expand, cooling the hot water via the Joule-Thompson effect, and it was a fairly low grade resource in the first place (~ 100C, and 95C was the cutoff for being useful), and

Not merely 24/7. Also if you have receivers on multiple continents, you can direct the power from a single orbital array to whichever continent needs it at the moment. Replaces long distance transmission and batteries.

So is variable generation actually being curtailed by the grid operator during these events, or are they just getting paid $0 for the MWh they put in?

So does this mean Alberta is undersupplied with battery storage?

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It’s fairly easy to manually verify the advantages. But also note these don’t need to be six sided dice. You could put them on 3 sides. Or on coins, if you allow biased coins. It’s not immediately obvious what this is good for, other than a concrete illustration that probability can be weird.

Not a mineral, but whale oil is no longer used. For illumination, it got supplanted by rock oil, which got supplanted by electric light.

Reasonable question, but I’m kinda out over my skis here. I think wiring is different, things like only one outlet per circuit, and different protection. And it’s not the same country to country.