"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.”

  • eleitl@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    It’s still near atmospheric pressure. Liquid CO2 expanding is powering the gas turbines.

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      3 hours ago

      Ah the bubble is the expansion volume. Not the storage volume… got it. I had it backwards.

      So yes, very similar then.