"This giant bubble on the island of Sardinia holds 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. But the gas wasn’t captured from factory emissions, nor was it pulled from the air. It came from a gas supplier… “The facility compresses and expands CO2 daily in its closed system, turning a turbine that generates 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, or 20 MW over 10 hours.”

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    6 hours ago

    Compressed air without heat recovery is more like 30%, so this is huge

    Carbon dioxide can be liquefied relatively easily which is what i guess makes this efficient