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Surur t1_j24dmyq wrote

> "This system, when it's fully built out, will save the equivalent of 6.6 passenger miles of CO2 out of the air annually," Fangman said.

That's not much. Hope it does not cost too many tens of billions of $.

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AsleepNinja t1_j24nb0u wrote

It's just more proof that Americans will use anything other than the metric system for no good reason.

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BattleForIthor t1_j24mcd8 wrote

Wait…. 6.6 passenger miles of CO2…?

…that’s it?

How many passenger miles is it going to take to engineer, manufacture, ship, assemble, run, maintain and eventually tear down and recycle/destroy this failure of a system?

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r2k-in-the-vortex t1_j24spzz wrote

Obvious journalistic screwup, you can get 6.6 passenger miles a year out of a hamster wheel.

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r2k-in-the-vortex t1_j24s29w wrote

Sounds like they recover the energy quite far down the line when they talk about sewage being 70F degrees, not much left to recover by that time. It's already mixed with solid waste and cold sewage, energy is lost to surrounding soil etc. But if at apartment building level you had a system that separated out hot water from sinks, baths etc and let it heat the building before going down the drain, that could be quite significant. It's a lot more complicated pipework of course, but if you plan it from the get-go, it would probably pay itself off easily enough.

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Surur t1_j24ueck wrote

I think the macerator is key, though, else the system would get clogged very quickly.

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Tip_Odde t1_j24pdza wrote

Still waiting on that magic bullet huh LOL

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zbyte64 t1_j28z09i wrote

Idk, magic bullets sound expensive. I'm sure parent would do the economically sensible thing and allow themselves to be eaten by the werewolf.

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