@madsenandersc @davidho

"If legislation forces the use of carbon neutral fuel [...]"

The numbers are available. Do the math. Giving their (very optimistic) estimates the benefit of the doubt, 1500kWh/tCO2 would require every coal-fired power station to plug directly into a DACC system 40000 times larger than their pilot plant sucking essentially all the generated electricity. We can skip the expensive attempt at a perpetual motion machine and just phase out the most polluting generation methods, starting with coal and oil.

Carbon capture is a red herring until we stop burning so much hydrocarbons. Legislators shoud focus on energy transition first. The industry should focus on electrification. As I said earlier, we need to slow down before we talk about reversing course.

@madsenandersc @davidho

"But the plant is not built to move tonnage. It is built to prove a process."

It's not there to prove a process. It's there to distract from the fact that coal-fired power generation -- essentially the same process in reverse -- still emits BILLIONS OF TONNES of CO2 each year.

Unless you see a path to negative energy prices, there's no realistic way to burn a traded commodity (electricity) to generate a common good (DACCS) while private companies are doing the opposite at a massive scale. You must brake and come to a stop before you can reverse.