On a 5-acre plot near Houston, a startup company is firing up a project that has been called "revolutionary" and a "breakthrough." It could change electricity forever, boosters say.
Whether that is wild hyperbole or a possibility will soon be clearer. The 50-megawatt demonstration from NET Power LLC in La Porte, now fully built after breaking ground two years ago, is the world's largest attempt to use carbon dioxide rather than steam to drive a turbine.
NET envisions burning natural gas in pure oxygen and producing CO2 ready for storage or use, the need for a capture unit. https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060071081
Article courtesy of E&E News by Christa Marshall
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