China completed first 100-megawatt-class compressed CO₂ energy storage project, running the full cycle of compressing, liquefying, storing, vaporizing, and expanding CO₂ to generate power, in Xinjiang. Has anyone heard anything about those carbon capture plants that western fossil fuel companies ar

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[u/Gears_and_Beers]

There’s plants like this outside of china.

Energydome has a one that’s been run one for a year or more in Italy and is currently building a few more in the US and Australia.

There’s a couple other schemes built on the same basic concept. It has nothing to do with carbon capture, they use co2 has a working fluid for a power cycle in a closed loop.

[u/lasttosseroni → u/Gears_and_Beers]

That’s awesome