Posted: Jan 03, 2020 9:17 pm
The article states that the conversion itself is without energy penalty, but they seem to ignore the energy penalty of bolting a 2 cubic metres box weighing 7% of the truck's payload above the cabin.
It might yet lead somewhere good, but stating that you can "simply" offload liquid CO2 at a service station doesn't inspire confidence that it will be soon. The whole energy cost of (a) that infrastructure, and (b) what happens to that CO2 is similarly glossed over, as is the investment outlook for the liquid CO2 collection network in an ever-electrifying era.
It might yet lead somewhere good, but stating that you can "simply" offload liquid CO2 at a service station doesn't inspire confidence that it will be soon. The whole energy cost of (a) that infrastructure, and (b) what happens to that CO2 is similarly glossed over, as is the investment outlook for the liquid CO2 collection network in an ever-electrifying era.