by noreply@blogger.com (Dan Yurman)
A former scientist at Sandia National Lab is bringing the technology to market
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Temperature / Pressure
ranges for supercritical CO2
Image: S. Wright |
Carbon Dioxide is good for a lot of things like adding fizz to your soft
drinking in its gaseous form and keeping food cold in its solid form as
“dry ice.”
What many people do not know is that the gas is also useful in its
lesser known liquid form. You won’t see it in nature since it takes five
atmospheres of pressure at slightly higher than room temperature, 31C,
to take it to a super state.
Then it can be used to push turbine blades and thus generators connected to them to make power.
(Note to readers: Convert Kelvin to Centigrade using this tool.)
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