THREAD: Overnight, our zero-emission natural gas facility delivered power to the electric grid - the first time anywhere in the world this has been achieved. It's a new chapter in the fight to #endclimatechange. How? (1/)
NET Power’s technology combusts natural gas with oxygen instead of air, and uses supercritical CO2 to generate electricity while inherently capturing leftover CO2. (2/)
This process has turned the carbon problem into a solution. (3/)
Our technology can be an essential complement to renewables, helping variable energy sources like wind and solar achieve deeper grid penetration. It also creates energy storage at each power plant, taking in excess renewable electricity and using it to create pure oxygen. (4/)
NET Power's technology also does not produce any nitrous oxide (NOx), sulfur oxides (SOx) or particulate pollution - a huge benefit to public health and the environment. (5/)
It's a Wright-brothers-first-flight kind of breakthrough for energy. (6/)