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…vehicles, are part of an industrial eco-system, illustrated above for polyurethanes. Each member of this industrial ecosystem depends upon the others. Surprising links. Some semiconductor materials are produced at larger…
…much waste heat can be harnessed at a solid fuel power plant? A typical thermal power plant must already be recapturing 50-70% of its theoretically available waste heat if it…
…possibly also biogas or hydrogen. Our build-up looks across five main categories: large power facilities, large industrial heating facilities, landfill gas, electric vehicle charging and smaller-scale commercial and multi-family usage….
…more energy than the thermodynamic minimum (chart below), even after 100-200 years of incremental efficiency gains by industrial civilization. Industrial processes. Thermodynamic Efficiency. Conclusion #2. Complex value chains tend to…
Heat pumps can halve the CO2 intensity of residential heating while also lowering costs by c10-35% in some cases. This all creates an exciting opportunity for heat pumps in the…
Some policymakers now aspire to ban gas boilers and ramp heat pumps 10x by 2050. In theory, the heat pump technology is superior. But in practice, there are ten challenges….
…prices. Heat pumps can be cost-competitive, if powered from the grid, and our screen of leading heat pump companies is presented on page 6. Running heat pumps purely off of…
This data-file captures the costs of industrial cooling, especially liquid cooling using commercial HVAC equipment, across heat-exchangers, cooling tower evaporators and chillers. Our base case is that removing 100MW-th of…
…and/or a resistive electrical heater in its well-insulated hot water tank. It is trivial to shift loads by a few minutes-hours, or switch between gas heating and electrical heating depending…
…heat. The recapture of waste heat is the largest determinant of the efficiency of a thermal power plant. Our base case model assumes that 50% of the low-pressure steam heat…