🌿 Carbon Capture Network — 3D
A genuine WebGL/Three.js companion to the 2D Carbon Capture Network simulator: CO₂ flows from an industrial source through a real orbitable pipeline into an underground geological reservoir, driven by the identical capture, compression and storage-fill math as the original.
Why render a CCS network in 3D
A real carbon-capture-and-storage network is a physical chain in space — a source facility, kilometers of pipeline, and a reservoir buried deep underground — a geometry the 2D original can only summarize with three separate calculator panels. This companion keeps the exact model of the 2D version — the same captured = emissions × efficiency and expenses = captured × cost capture formulas, the same annualEnergy = throughput × kWh/t × 365 / 1000 compression and maintenance = length × $12,000/km transport costs, and the same fillYears = capacity / (injection × 365) and risk = min(1, monitoring/5 + 0.3) storage formulas — but builds a real 3D scene: an emission source with a glowing stack, a genuine tube-geometry pipeline running through a compressor station, and an underground reservoir whose fill level rises as you play forward through simulated years.
Every one of the nine source, transport and storage parameters is a live slider, and every one feeds the same math as the 2D panels while also driving the 3D scene: capture efficiency changes how fast glowing CO₂ particles leave the stack and travel the pipe, pipeline length reshapes the tube's real path, throughput sets both the pipe's glow and the particles' travel speed, and monitoring cost tints the reservoir and its risk ring from green toward red exactly as the computed risk index changes. Press Play and the reservoir visibly fills toward its computed fill time while every readout — captured CO₂, capture cost, compression energy, maintenance, fill time, reservoir level and risk index — updates in real time.