NuScale: small modular reactor breakthrough?
NuScale was founded in 2007 and is developing a small modular reactor (SMR), measuring 2.7m wide x 20m tall, weighting 700T and producing 250MWth of heat, for 77MWe of power….
Reforestation in Estonia: six months in?
…in. This is another reason that some TSE research has recently made forays into carbon negative construction materials, insulation, small-scale wind turbines or who makes the best heat pumps. Surrounding…
Nuclear fusion: what are the challenges?
…magnets can levitate a stream of super-heated, charged particles. Or not. Ignition of plasma. What happens to the reaction products? How do you harness the heat? Without the reactor melting?…
Urea production: the economics
…which is disaggregated in the file across ammonia inputs, CO2 inputs, electricity inputs and heat inputs. These numbers can all be stress-tested. Sensitivity matters. At $6-10/mcf gas prices, marginal costs…
Capacitor banks: raising power factors?
…to cart Reactive power is needed to create magnetic fields within ‘inductive loads’ like motors, electric heat, IT hardware and LEDs. But it is wasteful. 0.8-0.9 x power factors mean…
Manufacturing methods: an overview?
An overview of manufacturing methods is given in this data-file, covering different means of upgrading, separating, heat-treating, drying, depositing, shaping and assembling different manufactured products. $399.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart…
CO2 intensity: Scope 1, 2 & 3 and Scope 4 emissions?
…biofuels, wind, solar, nuclear, hydrogen, CCUS, EVs, heat pumps and forestry. Next we calculate the Scope 1&2 CO2 emissions involved in producing the energy product. Then we calculate the Scope…
Energy units: life, the universe and everything?
…(MT, MTpa), British thermal units, the archaic therm; higher heating value versus lower heating value, and real-world gas blends. Gas is a low-carbon fuel as 54% of gas energy comes…
X Energy: nuclear fuel breakthrough?
…gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), commercializing 80MWe of electricity from c200MWth of heat. $449.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Progress and economics. A $2.4bn advanced demonstration project is being progressed in Washington State,…
Hydrofluoric acid: the economics?
…power transmission lines. It is used to make refrigerants, as used in fridges, AC and heat pumps. UF6 is used in upgrading uranium for nuclear fuel. And HF is used…