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Shayle’s “ask me anything” episode

Catalyst with Shayle Kann

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Direct Air Capture

In the case of direct air capture I think the bigger risk is the cost of electricity than it is the carbon profile of electricity. From what I've seen on on LCA calculations like assuming energy efficiency of these direct air capture systems continue to improve it still will be worth it just from a pure CO2 balance perspective. So if you have 10 cent per kilowatt hour power no direct air capture system is going to be anywhere near in the moneyNo matter what you define in the money as if you have one cent per kilOWatt hour power then it looks really really promising. It's like manufactured scaled product versus engineered project. Does one ever become the other at a certain point in its

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