What is the net “life-cycle” carbon dioxide balance of the GRT air-capture process?
By definition, net carbon dioxide capture is the net reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is achieved by the air-capture process accounting for the total capture of carbon dioxide and subtracting from it all of the carbon inputs that are directly or indirectly related to the installation and operation of the process. The largest CO2 emissions in the entire process are those related to energy consumption in the air-capture process. The amount of CO2 generated in thermal recovery processes is generally quite small while the electric energy consumption in electricity-based processes has already been reduced to a point where the carbon dioxide captured by the GRT air-capture process is less than the carbon dioxide released at a typical older coal-fired power plant. However, GRT believes that a more appropriate benchmark for the air-capture process is the average carbon intensity of a specific national connected grid rather than its most-intensive carbon dioxide component. In
