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[โ€“] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At some point you are going to need steam to spin a turbine to generate enough energy to compress the CO2.

[โ€“] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

But that's part of the bootstrapping process. The same way you need power to run the crucibles in a PV factory or to lift the wind turbine part by crane.