[muthas]

After a recent discussion with our home heating oil provider, seeing this post got me thinking - could a similar system be applied to the exhaust of a household furnace that is burning No. 2 heating oil?

A typical household in my part of the country runs around 1000 gallons of oil per year (which I realize is less than 10% of a typical long-haul truck annual usage) but for larger sites like greenhouses/breweries/etc that have both heating and CO2 needs, I could see there being significant gains to having an on-site capture system.

Even at the household side, it would be great to capture this tailpipe waste as a marketable resource... with the benefits of grid power and less concern over the size of storage/compression/regen equipment, I could imagine that the break-even point might be favorable.

[HardEric]

I think the concern with capturing CO2 on this small scale is the network required to go pick it up. Still an interesting thought experiment and maybe that'll be a future market.

Hopefully we can convert home heating systems like yours to a biofuel soon to reduce the CO2 impact quickly.

Thanks for the idea!

[sgerenser]

If you’re in the continental US or southern Canada, switching to heating mostly with modern low temperature inverter heat pumps would probably be a big win both economically and environmentally over heating with heating oil.