Re: Biofuel made from power plant CO2


Roger Thorpe wrote:

Something wrong with the sums here surely. The most gross solar input
that you could get is 1kW/m^3 * 10^6 m^3 = 1GW if you're near enough to
the equator, and if you include all the visible wavelengths.
I don't see how you're going to convert the CO2 from a 1GW plant with that!
Have I missed something?

Might work if............................. like most powerplants, it
runs way below peak capacity almost all the time. That's the only way I
can see it. Although the basic idea is sound, as you say the scale here
seems distorted otherwise.

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