A skeptical look at Remora's carbon-capture system for electric trucks and trains. The equipment is expensive to make, physically questionable, and heavy enough to burden operators. The startup's claims about efficiency and cost-effectiveness remain unproven.
A lot of what Rimora 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. The startup though has tons of questions to answer. Its machine seems big, heavy, and like a major pain for truck operators to deal with. And we more or less have to take the company's word for the moment that any of this process is efficient and that it makes financial sense.
