At some point you are going to need steam to spin a turbine to generate enough energy to compress the CO2.
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nomecks@lemmy.wtf 12 hours agoYou’re in luck. Supercritical CO2 turbines are a thing now, and they’re way more efficient because they don’t involve a phase change.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
chickenf622@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Got any sources on that? I would love to learn about some new tech in electricity generation.
silver@das-eck.haus 11 hours ago
fartographer@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Morphit@feddit.uk 9 hours ago
A good video on it dropped recently: youtube.com/watch?v=M55XzxjmON0
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 3 hours ago
It’s funny (in a sad and sardonic sense) - I pay attention to the energy industry and the outcry over data centers has got me watching these generators closely. If they deliver on their promises, they could represent a great way to deliver on mirror-based solar reactors in areas with limited water resources. (And to recapture and use waste heat from the servers of data centers.)
Society is on the precipice of investing a lot into increasing energy generation for data centers that have to be near the same sorts of resources that people need - fresh water, environs conductive to generating power, stable (enough) climates. But this technology is arriving/set to reach adoption just in time for this boom-bust cycle. All those data centers in populated areas already have a timer ticking for when the shell corps have their rugs pulled.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
Unfortunately, there’s no way to get energy out of waste heat that won’t be spent pushing that heat a little harder. Already a significant amount of energy is spent cooling data centers, any attempts at energy recapture will just make that cooling harder.
The best we can do is something like district heating, because heat pumps can get over 100% effective efficiency.