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500L CO2 per day, to make 2kwh of electricity (per day)

That's approximately as much CO2 as a person breathes out in a day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide#Human_physiolog... says about 1 kg, which works out to about 560L CO2 http://www.umsl.edu/~biofuels/Energy%20Meter%20labs/How%20mu...)

So yes, it provides a little bit of power, and no, it isn't likely to scale up to planet-wide CO2 reductions - one per person on the planet just to cover the CO2 we breathe?




You're comparing completely different things.

It depends first on what is done with the ~1kg of CO2 captured.

If humans get their carbon from sources that are removed from the air, we don't have a net addition.


Strictly speaking, fossil fuels are carbon removed from the air, just a long time ago.




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