• Bluewing@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    At some point you are going to need steam to spin a turbine to generate enough energy to compress the CO2.

    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      21 hours ago

      But that’s part of the bootstrapping process. The same way you need power to run the crucibles in a PV factory or to lift the wind turbine part by crane.