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2024-11-11
I wonder if they can use CO2 that comes from industrial carbon capture, or if it needs to be something purer that takes a lot of energy to produce.
Also, I'm not sure if we can get industrial volumes of hydrogen from sources other than fossil fuels now. Its been a while, but last I checked it was coming from things like byproducts from reformers.
It would need to be food grade CO2. So breweries would be a good source.
Yo this would be great for some actual proper carbon sequestration. Make some butter from the air and pump it back down into the wells.
It's like a very limited Star Trek replicator. It can make anything you want as long as it's butter.
So this new carbon sequestering program is going to be kind of a good news / bad news thing. ..
There are ≈950 gigatons of excess CO2 in the atmosphere 27% of that by weight is carbon, the us population is 333milion, so if every American eats 770lbs of carbon sequestered butter we will solve climate change.
Of course the danger is that this is cancelled out by increased carbon emissions from a making a commensurate amount of toast.
How does the cost per co2 captured compare to planting more trees? Or is this just another VC scam?
Wait. So a "butter star" is possible?
Once one is discovered, there will be a NASA mission to bake a gigantic loaf of bread and launch it at the butter star.
Isn’t that what it’s always been made of?
Germany managed to make butter out of coal during WWII.