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…research. Decarbonize Heat: a cost comparison of 20 technologies? (May-2020, 20-pages) Mitigating methane leaks in global gas: catch methane if you can? (Dec-2019, 23-pages) DeCarbonizing Carbon: Oxy-Combustion and Chemical Looping…
…as variations of these open-cycle turbines that are used in jet engines. Case studies from one such company, commercializing small, combined heat and power turbines, are presented in a backup…
…consumers and industrial competitiveness. More interestingly, we find expensive and volatile grids have historically motivated installations of combined heat and power systems behind the meter, which can also cut CO2…
…note finds next-generation geothermal economics can be very competitive, both for power and heat. Pilot projects are accelerating and new companies are forming. But the greatest challenge is execution, which…
…for deep geothermal are drilling long multi-lateral wells, which contact sufficient reservoir volumes to transfer heat from the subsurface into the working fluids, without depleting the geothermal resource. Recent advances…
Electric arc furnaces generate enormous amounts of heat as very high voltages cause the electric decomposition of air into plasma. This heat can be used to melt down and recycle…
…liquefying air and then boiling off its constituents. The main heat exchanger in a cryogenic air separator is usually a plate and fin design, super-chilling air to -172C. From the…
…heat-exchangers ($50/ton); or switch to a 50-60% lower-carbon gas plant ($0-80/ton). Thus one might fear that paying to “have my coal plant legally treated as a solar plant” is actually…
…cost uses of landfill gas in heat and power can also make good sense. But vast subsidies for landfill gas upgrading, RNG vehicles and biogas-to-jet may not be cost-effective. Our…
…and more for larger consumers, such as industrial/commercial consumers (data also below). https://thundersaidenergy.com/2020/05/17/decarbonize-heat/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/us-industrial-furnaces-breakdown-by-size-by-industry-by-fuel/ Network effects mean that costs are a function of the customer count. Furthermore, costs will rise…