Comment by marcosdumay
6 hours ago
> The ease of releasing CO2 is the key advantage of the new compound.
I have no idea why the journalist that wrote this article choose to highlight the carbon density of the sub-header. It's almost completely irrelevant for carbon capture plants.
Another clear benefit is that it's a liquid.
Today people mostly use the substances that you called non-reversible in research plants (AFAIK, all plants are research right now). They are perfectly reversible, but that uses a lot of energy.
> perfectly reversible, but that uses a lot of energy
Looks like a perfect match to a solar plant, which provides basically free energy periodically. All you need is a large enough cistern to hold the liquid during night time.
Yes, it's a great match to solar plants.
But you don't need to store the capture medium. You use a bit more energy to make they work faster while the Sun is shining, and stop everything when it's gone.
The largest bottleneck is what you do to get rid of the CO2.