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>"Moreover, they’ve been able to do it for less than $30 per metric ton of CO2."

If my math is right this means that with ~5% of the cost of the fuel you could offset car emissions to make transportation carbon neutral. Seems quite cheap if that's the case.

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That was achieved by placing the scrubber directly on the coal plant's exhaust stack.

This particular solution doesn't scale (most power isn't geothermal and we should just offline coal entirely) but the fact that we're already in the ballpark is at least promising.

but it does create options for a lot of countries lucky enough to have geothermal resources ie, those around the pacific rim, NE africa, east coast US and Italy.

not a lot of driver for domestic electricity production but carbon capture is a world-wide market...

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