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This data-file contains our numbers and analysis into the energy economics of phase change materials: an emerging class of materials, which can store and release heat by changing from solid…
…ultimately gets stored in the oceans, but the degree of thermal expansion depends on precisely where the heat ends up being distributed. (4) Sea levels could rise by >10m by…
…the data-file, across our models of Air Separation, Cables, Comminution, Compressors, Electric Motors, Electrowinning, Fans, Flotation, Gas Dehydration, Harmonic Filters, Heat Exchangers, Inverters, Motor Drivers, Pumps, Rankine Engines, Tanks and…
…total global primary efficiency by deploying technologies with lower-than-average primary efficiency?! (page 14). Efficiency paradox #3. Industrial history has seen primary efficiency of heat engines improve by a factor of…
…game changer for light-vehicles, with 3-5x greater fuel economy than combustion vehicles (database here), due to inexorable thermodynamic differences between electric motors and heat engines (overview note here). (2) Electric…
…longer be tempted to commit exergetic harakiri by converting ratable electricity into some fuel that you can then run through a heat engine. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/01/12/thermodynamics-carnot-rankine-brayton-beyond/ How does that work? Frankly, some…
…improve industrial efficiency? The energy intensity of global GDP has improved at 1% per year since 1970 (data here, research controversies here). We see AI as sustaining this long-standing trend,…
…IRR on a large production facility, and after reflecting capex costs, feedstock gas prices, heat, electricity, cryogenic oxygen, opex costs and CO2 prices. Production costs are most sensitive to input…
…to ‘drop out’ all of the NGL fractions in a demethanizer (chart below). (For more details, we have written an overview of cryogenics) The NGLs may then be heat exchanged…
…batteries, flow batteries, thermal batteries, SSBs, heat pumps, fusion, geothermal, CCS, DAC, blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, electrofuels, biofuels, landfill gas, biomass, biochar, nature. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/11/16/renewable-heavy-grids-dividing-the-pie/ Energy efficiency technologies from first principles: EROEI, electric…