How much CO2 are you actually pulling out of the air? I've read a bit about other carbon capture companies and Carbon Eng. is claiming 1M tons/year with the new facility they're building.
Using the numbers we've calculated with our first partner plant, we're expecting to be able to capture 0.5-1 ton/day with their 25 ton cooling tower. This is a very small tower - for perspective, UCSF operates a 5,400 ton cooling tower to operate their small electricity co-generation plant, and cooling towers at larger power plants can be even bigger than that.
Let's assume though that all 2M cooling towers in the US are the same size as our small 25 ton cooling tower. This equates to an opportunity to capture 730M tons of CO2 / year using really tiny versions of existing US infrastructure.
That's great. The market for C02 is already there and cooling towers exist everywhere. I have a gut feeling this could be licensed to the large players for their new builds, even if the co2 is just used onsite.
US CO2 consumption is ~64M tons / year, so 730M tons >> current US production. Next step for managing CO2 production is geologic sequestration to ensure we have something to do with all the CO2 we capture!
