Electro-fuels: start out as a billionaire?
Electro-fuels are hydrocarbons produced primarily from renewable power, CO2 and water. They are reminiscent of the adage that ‘the fastest way to become a millionaire is to start out as…
Phasing out gas: five hidden consequences?
…snowstorm comes through and knocks out the overhead power lines, Mrs Miggins is going to have some kind of alternative heating source and is not going to freeze to death…
Transformer costs: the economics?
…transformers varies with their power rating, and then how masses break down across these materials. Monthly pricing is tracked for electric steel and transformer imports in the data-file. Hence these…
Transformers: rise of the beasts?
…The physics of power distribution and transformers are explained on pages 2-6. What is changing in the energy transition is that renewables and EV chargers are being added to the…
Small-scale wind turbines: leading companies?
This screen compares the offerings of a dozen companies providing small-scale wind turbines, with power ratings in the range of 30kW of power, for residential energy generation. Costs range from…
End game: options to cure energy shortages?
This 13-page note considers five options to cure emerging energy shortages in the gas and power sectors of countries working hard to decarbonize. Unfortunately, the options are mostly absurd. They…
US CCS: market sizing?
…industrial and power-sector emissions could be captured, across coal-power, gas-power, ethanol, steel, cement, chemicals and smaller manufacturing. To put this in perspective, we also quantified how many million tons of…
Coal versus gas: explaining the CO2 intensity?
…Watt of power is exerted for 1 second; or when a current of 1 Amp flows through a resistance of 1 ohm. And 1 mol is a standard for counting…
Japan: nuclear restart tracker?
…generated by gas power instead. With all its nuclear plants shut down in 2011-12, LNG imports jumped by around 20MTpa, while the remaining shortfall was covered by ramping oil-fired power…
Energy development times: first consideration to full production?
Energy development times average c4-years for solar projects, 6-years for wind, 7-years for oil, gas, pipelines, LNG, 13-years for nuclear, while infrastructure such as gas pipelines and power transmission lines…