Making electric trucks makes more sense. Then you can centralize the CO2 collection to the power plants and make it much more efficient.
Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%
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#12Brilliant. Now let's force the governments to put in place the right incentives. How do we do that?
With a carbon tax. It will automatically make fossil fuels more expensive, while this device produces a fuel not subject to the tax.
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#13You recapture CO2 at the expense of increased fossil fuel consumption due to lower payload capacity. Is this really better than just going straight to electric transports?
Edit: Assuming you can fuel the trucks with the product of the CO2 to fuel conversion, is it still better than electric?
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#14Making electric trucks makes more sense. Then you can centralize the CO2 collection to the power plants and make it much more efficient.
I don't think so.
Building an electric car emits a ton of CO2 as well. The figure that is often used is that building your car generates just as much CO2 that what it will generate during its lifetime of driving.
So even if your truck runs 100% on renewable energy (and that's a big if, not to mention that creating this system also generates pollution before becoming green), retrofitting existing vehicles with technologies such as this one should be studied seriously.
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#15You recapture CO2 at the expense of increased fossil fuel consumption due to lower payload capacity. Is this really better than just going straight to electric transports? Edit: Assuming you can fuel the trucks with the product of the CO2 to fuel conversion, is it still better than electric?
Sounds like an inverse rocket equation problem.
Re: Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%
#16You recapture CO2 at the expense of increased fossil fuel consumption due to lower payload capacity. Is this really better than just going straight to electric transports? Edit: Assuming you can fuel the trucks with the product of the CO2 to fuel conversion, is it still better than electric?
it can be way better if that system can be retrofitted on existing trucks.
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#17>Just convert the CO2 to fuel using renewable energy That’s a nice idea but I haven’t seen a reaction that reduces CO2 anywhere, I’m not a professional chemist though so maybe I’m missing something? EDIT: lol, yes I am [1]. I should just stick to software since I only mildly suck at that. Also all that crazy tech sounds a bit like overkill; alkali hydroxides absorb CO2 and are pretty cheap to produce. [1] https://en.…
It is possible to convert the CO2 to methane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction but it is not as efficient as portrayed in the media. Conversion to gasoline or diesel fuel is much more difficult and inefficient.
Perhaps a nice use of excess power from wind farms?
Re: Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%
#18Brilliant. Now let's force the governments to put in place the right incentives. How do we do that?
With a carbon tax. It will automatically make fossil fuels more expensive, while this device produces a fuel not subject to the tax.
Carbon tax is a good idea. But it's not happening! Writing proposals, calling representatives, signing petitions and voting isn't helping. I mean, how do we actually make it happen?
Re: Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%
#19Making electric trucks makes more sense. Then you can centralize the CO2 collection to the power plants and make it much more efficient.
I don't think so. Building an electric car emits a ton of CO2 as well. The figure that is often used is that building your car generates just as much CO2 that what it will generate during its lifetime of driving. So even if your truck runs 100% on renewable energy (and that's a big if, not to mention that creating this system also generates pollution before becoming green), retrofitting existing vehicles with technol…
That figure is flat-out wrong, though. It's a myth.
Re: Catching CO2 from trucks and reducing their emissions by 90%
#20Making electric trucks makes more sense. Then you can centralize the CO2 collection to the power plants and make it much more efficient.
I don't think so. Building an electric car emits a ton of CO2 as well. The figure that is often used is that building your car generates just as much CO2 that what it will generate during its lifetime of driving. So even if your truck runs 100% on renewable energy (and that's a big if, not to mention that creating this system also generates pollution before becoming green), retrofitting existing vehicles with technol…
That’s pure fiction. Even large batteries (100+ KWh) pay for their manufacturing emissions within a few years.