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…20,000 data-points from the US EPA’s excellent ENERGY STAR program, and other technical papers. We estimate a house equipped with modern appliances will likely have 60% lower energy demand versus…
New energy policies will exacerbate inflation in the developed world, raising price levels by 20-30%. Or more, due to feedback loops. We find this inflation could also cause new energies costs…
This 14-page note lays out a new model to supply fully carbon-neutral energy to a cluster of commercial and industrial consumers, via an integrated package of renewables, low-carbon gas back-ups…
This 13-page note considers five options to cure emerging energy shortages in the gas and power sectors of countries working hard to decarbonize. Unfortunately, the options are mostly absurd. They…
…case, we note the time-frame, price run-up, causes and consequences. The average of these energy crises has seen the commodity in question rise 2.3x in price, while energy crises co-occur…
…to cart Energy transition is the largest construction project in the history of human civilization, but the nuances of long construction timelines are often overlooked. Energy development times tend to…
…around 1.2 GTpa, or c5,500 TWH of primary energy. (Amazingly, corn thus comprises about 25% of all human food-energy production; and 3% of all total human energy production, 2x more…
X-Energy Technology Review. X-Energy is a private, next-generation nuclear company, founded in 2009, headquartered in Maryland, USA with c300-employees at the time of writing. Its reactor design is a high-temperature,…
…methane leaks have not been publicized. Consider, for example, that the US energy industry produces c20% of the world’s useful energy, but only c10% of the global energy industry’s methane…
Thunder Said Energy is a research firm focused on economic opportunities that drive the energy transition. Our top ten conclusions into LNG are summarized below, looking across all of our…