Carbon fiber: the miracle material?
…carbon fiber in the energy transition. Its importance for fuel-efficient cars, planes, aerial vehicles, wind turbines, hydrogen and construction materials are spelled out on pages 4-7. It is one of…
Energy Technologies and Energy Transition
…Increase Fossil Fuel Demand? (Feb-2020, 13-pages) Drones & droids: deliver us from e-commerce (Oct-19, 20-pages) Scooter Wars: are smaller electric vehicles better? (July-2019, 13-pages) Aerial ascent: why flying cars will…
Two Majors’ Secret Race for the Future of Offshore Wind?
…kick-off testing of this new floating offshore system with demonstrations in Norway later this year”. Previously, Shell also invested €6M in Kite Power Systems, another aerial wind concept. So we…
Good Batteries vs Bad Batteries?
…to the battery in an ‘aerial vehicle‘, as we recently reviewed in depth, with flying cars set to achieve the equivalent of 140mpg (chart below). Grid-scale batteries can also achieve…
Ten Themes for Energy in the 2020s
We presented our ‘Top Ten Themes for Energy in the 2020s’ to an audience at Yale SOM, in February-2020. The audio recording is available below. The slides are available to…
Ten Themes for Energy in the 2020s
This short presentation describes our ‘Top Ten Themes for Energy in the 2020s’. Each theme is covered in a single slide. For an overview of the ideas in the presentation,…
Drones attack military fuel economy?
This data-file quantifies the fuel economies of typical military vehicle-types, as $1.7 trn per annum of global military activity consumes c0.7Mbpd of total oil demand on our estimates, which are…
Vehicles: fuel economy and energy efficiency?
Vehicle fuel economy and energy efficiency are quantified in this data-file, looking across different transportation types: cars, trucks, buses, hybrids, electric vehicles (EVs), hydrogen cars, planes, trains, helicopters, plus other…