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This feels like a crazy complicated solution for this problem.. but the one thing I wondered was whether that truck could make a full turn with these huge devices on the decking?

The anti-rail sentiment that Gross alludes to toward the end shows a dangerous bias. It’s great that a bandaid was developed, but the implication that it should be seen or used as anything more than a bandage is potentially misleading. If the content devoted a section into digging the numbers in a comparative fashion, this piece would hold more integrity than branded content.

Very cool! Definitely strikes me as a stop gap, but a highly valuable one that paves the way and tees it up for others to develop better post-capture tech.

Yes! This is the kind of innovation we need!

When you cool down the exhaust, you prevent NOX from breaking down. Which is much more dangerous for the environment than CO2. Plus massive expense, weight, and intangible benefits for end users. Nice idea, needs a lot of work though

The solution to truck polution is to switch to electrified rails as the primary way of transporting goods long distances across land, and only use trucks for "last mile" delivery

The government kneecapped trains to make these trucks more profitable in the first place. Just get the government out of the equation and go back to rail based transport then use these trucks for final destination delivery. It's not hard to understand.

I can imagine putting these devices on factories smokestacks.

Did these guys even talk to people who drive trucks for a living? NO ONE is going to want an extra 5k lbs destroying their margins. Truck driving is barely a break-even proposition in the US as it is.

The idea is impressive. The timing makes it edge-worthless. By the time their tech/idea matures (3-5years) and becomes viable/scalable (add another bunch of years) we'd be already transitioning to Electric/Hydrogen trucks. Which is not gonna make their tech obsolete by night, but it will lower the appealing for investor and the return drastically. The remaining truck companies that find it too expensive to replace their fleet with electric, pretty sure they will also find it expensive to install such systems. Cause on the long run a full-ev truck generates a lot more income than this device.

They support oil over electricity but they wpn't sell their co2 to oil companies because they dont support oil.

Engineer here, If that is running off the cars engine then the addition of the system would just cause a net increase in the carbon released. Even if you are capturing it you're still increasing the production of CO2 and with the "absorbent beds" you just have a enormous amount of bed material soaked in CO2.

So good to see young folks featured and, unfortunately, clearing up the mess started by their great grand parents and big corporations. So different from their "peers" focused on the kardashians, drugs, pop culture, tictok dopamine addiction. Putting phone down..

Oh batteries are so heavy, Our device weighs 5000 pounds. The denial is real here.

The offloading CO² tanks will need to be next to every semi diesel fill pump, or at least next to every semi DEF pump... that's expensive!

Interesting concept but completely ruling out EVs as greenwashing… yeah no. I think this technology could be interesting in the transition but they’d be racing the clock on scaling and rolling it out before they are made redundant. Still it’s nice to know people are thinking about and working on things like this. Also they raise a good point about carbon being used in all sorts of things, be interesting to see what happens to that market and how far this product goes.

Love their work but I think what is often overlooked is that once you sell the CO2, not just to oil companies, you don't know what they do with it. Every product has a lifespan once it's over it's going to break down and release carbon. Take fizzy drinks for example. You open the bottle the CO2 is gone. If those products were made from fossil fuels anyway your not doing any more harm. But if they used a natural water spring or whatever that released CO2 anyway beforehand and they now switch to your product which decreased fuel efficiency you're unintentionally making the problem worse. Edit: found out the CO2 for fizzy drink comes as a byproduct of NH3 synthesis, which is made using Methane (for heat) . At least here in Germany.

considering it may be decades or longer before we come up with technology to replace our semi-trucks, this would help immensely. Baby steps like this will get us there

This seems more likely to make someone rich rather than ever put a dent in emissions.

Truckers going to love this.

This is a perfect application for carbon capture. These trucks are running 100+ hours and burning thousands of gallons of fuel, per week, all year round. They tow 30 tons so weight isn’t an issue, and the power to operate the device is readily available. They also have space for the machinery. Heavy trucks tick every box.

If green hydrogen is produced on a larger scale, wouldn't it be easier to covert the trucks to run on hydrogen?

Finally Finally a group of people are on the RIGHT track. This technology has been used in factories and by NASA for years. This needs to be developed.

Will it leave room for turning? Can it be installed onto, in or distributed around the trailers instead?

Kudos to this company

So....it gets released in the atmosphere once used in the after market... So not a solution to CO2 emissions.

Won't CO² return to the atmosphere when soda is consumed?

This is yet another well intentioned green technology, propped up by journalism. Lately, it's been a constant procession of infeasible green tech promoted by media outlets who don't ask any of the key engineering questions. It's one thing to be optimistic, it's another to deny the very real shortcomings and indefeasibility of a technology.

1 cruise ships makes as much pollution as 1 day in all of Europe this is not going to help its companies that need real standards not the population

Seems like they need to find a way to make this waaayyy more simple to install and operate. I can't see it going anywhere until it is easier and cheaper to buy and install it.

From The Caribbean 🇻🇨, I Love This Idea. Hope They Get To Scale.

I really hope this tech evolve and gets implemented, would make a significant impact!!

Cool idea but some FUD with electric transport. Tesla has produced more electricity through their solar division than they have used in their manufacturing to date. Batteries are close to 100% recyclable today and there are companies doing so. The electric grid is getting more green as time goes on so all non issues, just some FUD. But otherwise a really cool idea for the interim. Hope they succeed but its maybe a solution thats around for 10 years max

8:54 Co2 should also be transformed into coal to incrase storage efficiency.

Thanks guys!

Don't plant's, tree's, and plankton use carbon dioxide and convert it to oxygen? If we eliminate carbon dioxide from nature, isn't that a problem? Help me understand this.

great stuff, best wishes to Remora, and others like-minded

Smart.

A mobile carbon capturing plant fitted onto the container truck is a prototype with a very complex mechanism in terms of its engineering, design, functioning logistics, arrangement, handling,testing and maintenance- yet needs to be undertaken for the purpose of containing carbon emissions.Hopefully these laborious people with scientific mindset do succeed in making their invention reach the public in near future.

Fantastic....this kind of thing gives hope.

It'd awesome if you can get it to work and be used worldwide. If only the climate change agenda really was about the environment...

All this action to make something to capture carbon - won't that just create more carbon? And what are we trucking? Do we need so much crap in our lives? Perhaps we need to focus on reducing consumption.

Say it with me Semi...Sim-my... Are we all clear about this now... it's not a computer part

one of the primary issue is weight of cylinder leading to less mileage , potential solution could be storing carbon in some sort of salt and containing it as cylinders are heavy

This would also create a giganticly massive increase in the cost of owning and operating a truck this is idiotic. Direct air capture is the only viable carbon capture technology. If you want the price of everything transported on a truck to more than douhble then ya this is a great idea

Correct me if I’m wrong, but, doesn’t water trap like 6x it’s own weight in carbon?

Good idea but i have concerns that this will be way less CO2/ $ spend than other solutions. This system needs to be retrofitted by a Company that is willing to do it without any monetary incentive for it. And i really doubt there would be a large adaptation if there is no governmental support for it. IMO a better way would be to build stationary CO2 caption Plants, those can run 24/7 and not only when a truck is turned on, therefore it could capture way more and way cheaper bc it does not have to be mobile with restrained space. Also it would be cheaper bc it could be build in a very large scale. Even when it would be fitted to 5.000 trucks a year it would take 400 years to fit all of the trucks only in the USA (and how long do you think we are still dependent on combustion Trucks?) and this Company is still in the Prototyping phase. So I'm guessing they would scale up to maybe at most 500 Systems a year but only if they are really financially successful. So either way this would not have a noticeable effect on reducing CO2. Also when this system really captures 200 t a year per truck and can hold a maximum of 1200 lb's (0,544 t) CO2 in its Tank it would have to stop and empty its tanks 367 times a year, guess how many extra miles and hours spend that would generate. If it would add only 1/2 hour a day it would mean a trucker can drive 1/2 hour less a day (the company also needs to pay him for 1/2 hour less of work per day) and that the freight would be 1/2 hour late per day of carry wich would be bad for competitiveness. And I didn't even factor the cost from the extra miles. And when the CO2 tank is full but there is no station near to empty it (i could imagen that would be the case pretty often) the whole System would just stop to function wich is wasted potential and completely negates any positive. Also the Volume of this System, engine, transmission, exhaust, tanks, etc. of a normal Truck would probably be sufficient space for a large battery btw. that would be good enough for a couple 100 miles. (only 11% of hauls are longer than 200 miles ) But we need Projects in a way larger scale that can be deployed faster than this to really see effects. I don't say that smaller projects can't help but this definitely is not a solution for clean transport as the title might suggest. I'm really questioning the amount of critically thinking this channel does.

a lot of smart people out there.

"You have to charge them, you have to build them, you have to recycle them". All of which can be done with renewable energy and current technology and actually stops CO2 emissions.

This is very exciting! CO2 can be used to make carbon nanofibers, which means the auto industry could potentially use this captured carbon to make car body panels and parts from this new source. Various building materials could also be made from carbon fiber. There are so many applications for this material, it just needs to be commercially marketed and distributed. Thank you for sharing this with us. 💗💗💗

I'm loving this technology!

If they sold to oil companies, this solution would be financed quicker than any other start up. It’s actually really smart if they sell to oil companies. Then the oil companies continue to produce gasoline or diesel fuel which is used to power the vehicles to capture the carbon. They make a partnership with oil sound bad, but I think it’s actually win win as long as the CO2 oil companies use is not furthering climate change.

Great idea, but currently much too complex and likely expensive. Hopefully team can simplify.

clip on. you make it sound like its a tie clip. so misleading. engineers, welders, people responsible, still need to make all that safely attached for impacts, collisions, vibrations, aerodynamics, thermodynamics, electrical load, pressure load, balance.... so, clip on. typical misleading title. like saying 'put' a house on a rock outcropping. there's tons of work needed for such things, but soft words mislead us to thinking its easy.

This is wonderful 👏 👏

It's good stuff. Not everything can be zero CO2 emissions in the short and long term.

Is c02 bad? Why not grow more trees?

Do not try this at home. What a fascinating approach. Rather than scrapping (impractical and improbable), augment the existing vehicles' technology. Pragmatic and doable, it seems. What a young team, too. I was surprised to hear that the financial model includes selling the captured carbon, but I probably shouldn't have been. Thanks for sharing.

First of all, I love the fact you have a group of people of all shapes colors and flavors who are just working together to make the world better. They are not having long awkward conversations how they need to be inclusive of everyone as they are just doing it. HOWEVER, this idea/device of course was invented by an engineer. There is a semi need for it as I don't see how they are going to get it paid for. A diesel truck weighs 20,000 plus 80,000 payload. This device is FIVE percent of the trucker's load which is more weight/more cost. They trucker is more concerned with putting food on the table vs. saving the world.

Fantastic video. Thank you!

I read an article titled "Preliminary Design and Off-Design Analysis of a Radial Outflow Turbine for Organic Rankine Cycles" by Jun-Seong Kim and Do-Yeop Kim, published in April 2020. The article claimed that a 400 kW Radial Outflow Turbine generator for sCO₂ could operate at 85% efficiency. For reference, 400 kW is equivalent to 536 horsepower. This system could potentially offer a much lower weight burden compared to relying entirely on batteries, while at the same time dramatically increasing range. In comparison, a typical diesel engine in a semi-truck operates with an efficiency of around 40 to 45%. On the other hand, electric motors, which could power an electric truck, typically achieve efficiencies of 90 to 95%, resulting in a round-trip efficiency of approximately 76% when considering energy conversion and powertrain losses. Additionally, by incorporating carbon capture, you could repurpose the captured CO2 to produce methane in combination with green hydrogen, creating fuel to power the aforementioned semi-truck. This approach would significantly reduce carbon emissions and contribute to a more sustainable transportation solution. While you refueling your truck you could empty your CO2 reserves.

why not use freight trains?

1 litre of petrol weighs 750 grams. Petrol consists for 87% of carbon, or 652 grams of carbon per litre of petrol. 80% of 652 is 521.6grams 37.9 million trucks registered and used for business purposes (excluding government and farm) in 2019 37.9m*130.4 grams per litre= 4942160000 grams or 4942.16tonnes of carbon left per litre spent, nice work but there's still a massive problem left

No you don't have to keep the trucks running, there are lots of alternatives. I'm glad this technology exists, it should help speed the transition to renewables.

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15 mins to unload ? really depends on how often this needs to happen, since you have to visit your companys hub or a unloading station and i dont think these will be common at all. once a week ? that might work. but if its multiple times a day or even daily, no logistics company will buy this.

what if we, and hear me out, replaced trucks with...... TRAINS

Be cool if the beads are dirt cheap. Once they become saturated, just replace them open a valve, dump the beads and refill them from the top.

Love the idea

You can do this without trashing EV and H2, there will still be millions of combustion trucks on the road for years that need this, even if all manufacturers switched to zero local emissions tech overnight. (And there's still the 20% this solution doesn't capture, that's way dirtier than an EV or Hydrogen rig)

It’s a good step if you consider carbon a problem. I remember my father telling me of drought back when he was a kid in Kentucky. The ground cracked. That was early 1900s before the automotive boom. Don’t think that weather fluctuations are new. They are not. These would be good in California or the big cities that get smog and don’t have nearby forests to act as Carbon sinks.

Can we mount it on cows?

Great work thank yoU

I don’t understand how this is feasible or worth the time. At the beginning of the video, they admitted that semi truck emissions are only 5% of the US’ carbon emissions. So even if this solution was ready to roll out and implement on every single truck, it’s only cutting 5% of carbon emissions of one country…

This is super interesting!

Why are they building the zeolite containers that way? It seems like you could attach a shaker/vibrator and pour it in from the top - keep packing/pouring until 100% of the required amount is in the container.

I would be interested to see if this could be combined with the BeHydro conversions that reduce the CO2 emissions on ships and trucks by 85%?

Burning 1 liter diesel emits 4.6kg Co2 gas and thus will require high pressure or huge tanks to store it, plus an infrastructure to get rid of it.

Tesla has been making cars for 15 years and only now, with factories around the world, and aggressive expansion, have they reached 2 million Teslas on the road. Call this a stop-gag measure if you want, but this will take decades and decades to be replaced. I think Remora just needs a round of funding to expand production.

Every viable option to move us forward is a must and a space for people to find a purpose

Good job 👏

Worth watching. John Neidigh’s (rhymes with “I dig.”) take: Electric semis are impractical and basically reinventing the wheel. 🙄 Retrofitting existing diesel fleets with mobile carbon capture makes much more sense AND generates income from the CO2 captured using the exhaust heat that is normally wasted! Kill two birds with one stone. 😉🙂😎

5000 lb on an 80000 lb limit truck. Assume 30000 lb for the truck and trailer. That is about 10% of their cargo weight. That is doable... Did I hear this right? A truck can produce 200 tons of CO2 a year? 1200 lb of CO2 storage. 400,000/1200 - that is a 15 minute de-tankkng 333 times a year - assume once per day. Since you could be anywhere when you need to drop it off, that is hassle, and people on a schedule will let it fill all the way up before emptying it. Pretty cool idea, even with the challenges.

Yo I just got to say. The video capture + sound/video editing is 🔥🔥🔥🔥 beautiful 🤌🏽

what's preventing them from just pouring the beads into the thing and just vibrating it to compact them? that should cut it down from days of work to minutes/hours

Did the truck hit the road after the installation of the apparatus?

Simple question from a simple guy: don’t plants breathe co2 out of the atmosphere? So what happens when you “decarbonize” the atmosphere?

Bandaid solution for sure. But, uh... rails, anyone? Rails?

President of Indonesia must know about this video.

GREAT BUT SEVERAL QUESTIONS - What about cost, size and the extra energy needed to pressurize the CO2 as well as the extra pressure needed to push the exhaust thru the zeolite bed

There's this great invention called ...trees.

Nice solution. They can reproduce methanol using CO And H2 coming frome renewable sources. For this, gasoline-powered engines are needed. And the engine should run with low oxygen so that CO is released. As a result, when we consider that the efficiency of the internal combustion engine is 20%. Investing in electricity makes much more sense.

All the best you guys! Are you capturing NOX SO2? - since those pollutants pretty bad for our health.

This should be installed on tankers.

I'm very surprised they don't all wear safety glasses while they are in the lab!

Capturing CO2 technology won't be obsolete even if trucks start using batteries, it'll be needed in other fields.

The guy was very quick to bring up greenwashing in battery EVs, but didn't even adress the issues with this technology. Surely this is less clean than EV trucks. They only capture 80% of the CO2 and didn't even mention gasoline production and transport.

You give me 'hope'

This is a crude beginning but if funding for more R&D is there, this can be a good interim solution.

Awesome