What oil price is best for energy transition?
…Industrial efficiency stalls when oil prices are below $30/bbl, as oil outcompetes renewables and more efficient heating technologies (page 7). Cleaning up oil and gas is harder at low oil…
Manufacturing utilization rates by industry?
…One reason is that renewables operate at low utilization rates (around 15-45% of installed capacity) and are volatile, while industrial demand requires higher utilization rates. This data-file tabulates the utilization…
Hydrogen reformers: technology leaders
The aim of this data-file is to assess who has the leading technology for producing industrial hydrogen: but especially blue hydrogen from auto-thermal reformers, which was highlighted as an opportunity…
Our Top Ten Research Notes of 2020
…which could make them uncompetitive. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2020/10/08/planting-a-seed-will-new-forests-disrupt-new-energies/ (2) Restoring soil carbon is equally powerful, and surprisingly fascinating. Agricultural soil has lost three-quarters of its carbon since pre-industrial times. Restoring it could…
End game: options to cure energy shortages?
…point to inflation, industrial leakage and slipping global climate goals. But there may be a few glimmers of opportunity in LNG, nuclear and efficiency technologies. $399.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart…
Power electronics: market size in energy transition?
…are summarized in the equipment tab. Increasing electrification, safely, reliably, amidst the build-out of renewables is going to require ramping up the use of power electronics for commercial and industrial…
Supercapacitors: case studies for renewable-heavy grids?
…wind turbines now use super-capacitors to feather their blades. Many industrial machines also have jagged power demand profiles (example above right, a servo-press used to stamp metal plates in auto-manufacturing)….
Eaton: breakdown of revenues by product category?
…for power electronics, in order to integrate volatile wind and solar resources into grids, protect sensitive equipment and electrify more industrial and consumer processes. We have written excitedly about power…
How does methane increase global temperature?
…forcing is suggested at 0.036 in the IPCC’s AR3 – AR5 reports. Plugging 0.036 into our formula above would suggest that increasing methane from 720 ppb in pre-industrial times to…
Prime movers: efficiency of power generation over time?
How has the efficiency of prime movers increased across industrial history? This data-file profiles the continued progress in the efficiency of power generation over time, from 1650 to 2050e. As…