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Entropy? Never heard of it. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Specifically it's not trying to be an over unity machine. Energy is spent pushing air through the filter medium; energy is spent moving the filter to the CO2 extractor; energy is spent heating the filter (or whatever the extraction system is); energy is spent compressing or freezing CO2 for storage