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vansig
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to use fairly round numbers,
4.4 Gt / yr = 10^14 mol CO2. at -427.4 kJ/mol std enthalpy change of formation, it would cost 4 x 10^8 TJ per year, or 2.7 million of the 5 MW reactors.
kind of a lot