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NNadir

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1. Whence the energy to run that thing?

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:21 PM

Yesterday

Direct air capture requires significant energy to overcome the entropy of mixing.

Please don't tell me it's going to come from so called "renewable energy."

In my opinion many of these systems end up being efforts at making perpetual motion machines.

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Whence the energy to run that thing? NNadir Yesterday #1

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