Remora is mounting a carbon-capture system on freight locomotives to pull CO2 from diesel exhaust. BNSF burns over a billion gallons of diesel yearly. The capture car processes roughly 25 tons of exhaust per hour from a single engine, with hardware spread across two rail cars connected by hose.
These railroads, the largest one, BNSF, uses over a billion gallons of diesel every year. Really? We are gonna be the first carbon capture system on a train ever in the world. And then come on in. It's gonna be pretty hot. We will be pumping 25 tons of exhaust out of this locomotive every hour. Wow. Okay. So it's just an incredible volume of exhaust that we have to handle. Okay.
So I wanna show you the engine. All right.
This is a 16-cylinder 4,500 horsepower diesel engine. Each one of these cylinders has the same displacement as the entire truck engine that we looked at back there. So this is the exhaust coming back across the locomotive, and then this is the place that the capture car will meet with the exhaust. So we'll have a hose coming across here, and then the system will be spread out on these two cars.
A lot of what Remora is doing makes a lot of sense. It sounds nice to talk about making electric trucks and trains, but actually producing them is hard and costly, and the physics don't always check out. So perhaps there's a better approach for the here and now. Also, spewing more CO2 into the air is dumb.
