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Old 06-17-2008, 03:31 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I've got one word for you: Organic Rankine Bottoming Cycle.
This rocks! It got me thinking. If the exhaust is shedding energy to a refrigerant, it would be cooler afterwards. Would it then be possible to either collect the CO2 or change it into carbon particles (with a catalyst?) that could be collected? Or in the case of diesels, collect the soot particles? I'm thinking out loud here!

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