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How will food and energy shortages re-shape liquid biofuels? This 11-page note explores four questions. Could the US re-consider its ethanol blending to help world food security? Could rising cash…
…Other applications, back in the traditional industrial landscape, use vacuum pumps. Ranging from the food manufacturing industry (one company website that we reviewed comprehensively lists how their technology is used…
…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…
We tabulated data from 138 elections over 60 years in 7 countries. When food and energy prices spike, there is a 75% chance of government change. Revolutions can sometimes be…
…rationale for vertical greenhouses is to grow food closer to the consumer, which can save 0.6kg of trucking CO2 per kg of food. Eliminating freight is much simpler than decarbonizing…
…greenhouses takes 1,000kWh of electricity per m2 per year, emitting 3kg of CO2 per kg of food, if the grid is 50% gas and 50% renewables. CO2 costs of vertical…
…generators (10%), solar (12%), wind (5%) and hydro (6%), and supported by 5 GWh of battery storage. Light manufacturing and food-processing facilities will also tend to have an average grid…
…gas itself (-1% YoY), manufacturing food products (-6%) and auto production (-6%). The biggest reductions in gas demand were refineries (-41%) and wood products (-26%) because both can readily switch…
…for hardened metals, cutting tools, insulated glass and aluminized food packaging. We figured that we needed to compile this screen after reviewing LONGi‘s patents in early-2024. The technology underpinning HJTs…
…food energy to useful work (depending on how hard you work the horse), can only cover 25-40 miles in a day, must be treated humanely and annoyingly poops everywhere. So…