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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (16 children)

Who says you power that thing with fossil fuels? The real way to do that is via giant nuclear reactors or reactor complexes.

Fission power can be made cheaper per MW by just making the reactors bigger. Economies of scale, the square cube law and all that. The problem with doing this in the commercial power sector is that line losses kill you on distribution. There just aren't enough customers within a reasonable distance to make monster 10 GW or 100 GW reactors viable, regardless of how cheap they might make energy.

But DACC is one of the few applications this might not be a problem for. Just build your monster reactors right next door to your monster DACC plants.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Good luck building enough capacity in nuclear power to do that. Nuclear plants tend to be a lot more expensive and take a lot longer to build than anticipated.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Literally only in the US and Europe. Remove the profit motive and don't keep on inefficient construction companies and it's a quick process.

[–] Tlaloc_Temporal 4 points 1 week ago

There's no profit motive for large scale carbon capture anyway, so big CC plants and big nuclear plants would need the same political will.

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