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Guilty regardless of looks, frick that inhumane piece of shite

Yes but what I’m saying is there is negligible sellable product from a carbon capture plant other than the tax credits. So once the tax credits dry open, all you are doing is paying OPEX.

Maybe I’m missing something very basic.

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Multiply 3,000,000 per year times $85 and that is the potential federal tax credit for this project. Crescent Midstream will be the CO2 pipeline operator and will get about 20-30% of that (depending on how well they negotiate) and the emitter (like Entergy) will get the rest.

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You’re correct, $255MM/yr is the potential tax credit. However, the operating cost for CCS is very high and would eat into that $255MM.

I’d expect a project like this to have a 10 yr payback period which I don’t understand how investors are accepting such slow returns.

In general, recycling plastic is not economical and doesn’t lower the CO2 footprint of that particular plastic. The main benefit is that it reduces landfill waste or waste that ends up in the environment.

For a high quality recycled plastic, there are two main routes that I’m aware of:

1. The plastic needs to be de-polymerized back to its basic monomers, purified, then re-polymerized.

2. The plastic goes through a pyrolysis process to convert it to an oil that would get refined into fuel or back to plastics.

Both of these processes would require significant amounts of energy and result in a larger carbon footprint. The cost of production is generally higher than plastics production from fossil fuels also.

You can recycle plastics by more mechanical methods like grinding or melting, but the recycled product is a crap quality with limited applications.

Now if you powered Option 1 or Option 2 above with nuclear power or renewable energy, you could make it a lower carbon footprint than current plastic production processes. But it would still probably be more expensive.

This is coming from a ChemE who did some techno-economic work investigating recycling options for nylon 66.

lol at people living in a state with break tags.

and a state income tax

and yet a still dysfunctional state

CCUS requires energy. Lots of it. But if you power it with low carbon energy (ie nuclear) then there is opportunity to significantly reduces co2 emissions.

Aside from being stored underground, CO2 can be captured, reacted with hydrogen made by splitting water with electricity (from nuclear), then turned back into building block chemicals.

Honest question, how is CCS not as advertised?

LINK to Facebook profile exposing the Dr

I’m interested in setting up some JBL Authentics series, JBL Bar 1300X, and some JBL XD-6 speakers for outside. Advice on how to do this? Or should I go with Sonos?

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Maybe a dumb question, but is the IRS limit per couple (married filing jointly) or per individual if we each have a 401k through work?