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Engineering360: "Largest direct air capture facility calls Iceland home"

02/27/2022 1:00 AM

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02/28/2022 4:52 AM

4000 tons per hour as a rate needs to be shown in comparison with photosynthesis globally: around 45000 tons per second.

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02/28/2022 4:54 AM

Correction: 4000 tons per year.

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02/28/2022 4:57 AM

...so one would need 3.6e8 of these to do what plants achieve globally.

It might be better to remediate some land and start growing things.

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02/28/2022 2:34 PM

Yes, but hardly anybody gets rich planting trees.

Now, when you build a huge industrial facility . . . . you put a lot of people to work building it, and staff to operate and maintain it . . . .

Reminds me of the broken window fallacy.
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