MIRALON: turquoise hydrogen breakthrough?
…1 ton/ton), which should open up access to $1/kg of 45V incentives under the IRA. Future formulations derived from gas that would otherwise have been flared, landfill gas or biogas…
Turn the Plastic Back into Oil
Due to the limitations of mechanical recycling, 85% of the world’s plastic is incinerated, dumped into landfill, or worst of all, ends up in the oceans. An alternative, plastic pyrolysis,…
Nature based solutions to climate change?
…that 80-95% biomass carbon can remain preserved after 40-100 years in landfill (chart below, data here). There are also environmental controversies, due to forest-climate feedbacks. There are increasing risks of…
Industrial gas separation: swing producers?
…sensitivities, are discussed on pages 9-10. Separating biomethane from biogas? Separating biomethane from biogas and landfill gas could use pressure swing adsorption, but we find the thermodynamics and costs to…
Electrostatic precipitator: costs of particulate removal?
…build-up reflects subsequent disposal of captured dusts and particulates, especially where these dusts contain heavy metals. Not all facilities will incur these costs. Landfill costs vary by region. Trucking costs…
CH4 context: the largest methane leaks of all time?
Global methane emissions amount to 360MTpa. 40% is from agriculture, 40% from the energy industry and 20% from the landfill industry. Within energy, over 30% of the leaks are from…
Biofuels: the best of times, the worst of times?
…the higher side. To read more about our outlook for biofuels in energy transition, please see our reports here, here and here. We are most excited about opportunity in landfill…
Natural gas: the EU green taxonomy’s 270g/kWh CO2 target?
…conventional gas plus landfill gas (c25%), nature-based CO2 removals (20-25%), blue hydrogen (30%) and CCS (c33%). Generally these blends do not look too bad on costs, inflating a marginal cost…
Decarbonize Heat?
…and not at scale (page 10). Biogas costs are very high, but landfill taxes can act as a kingmaker for these projects, ramping them to c10-20% of developed world gas…
Gas turbines: what market size in energy transition?
…We have quantified the opportunity in large-scale power (page 4), industrial heat (page 5), landfill gas (page 5), EV fast-charging (page 6) and smaller-scale residential/commercial systems (page 6). The costs…