…may cause its circuit breaker to trip. Hence some homes may need upgraded grid connections to add electric vehicle chargers or heat pumps. Office buildings that have crossed our screens…
…timely electricity supplies from the grid, although our outlook differs for green hydrogen, heat pumps and electric vehicles (pages 6-7). Most controversial are the outlooks for power electronics, power cables…
…batteries, flow batteries, thermal batteries, SSBs, heat pumps, fusion, geothermal, CCS, DAC, blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, electrofuels, biofuels, landfill gas, biomass, biochar, nature. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/11/16/renewable-heavy-grids-dividing-the-pie/ Energy efficiency technologies from first principles: EROEI, electric…
…heat pumps, and inverter-based generation sources such as solar and wind. An introduction to power quality issues is presented in our overview of electricity. Active harmonic filters are the most…
…underpins fridges, air conditioners, heat pumps, LNG and industrial gases. Industrial gases comprise a market worth c$100bn per year, including 400MTpa of oxygen. And a surprisingly large number of metals,…
…pumps, and electric vehicles. But what actually are magnets? How are they measured? Why do so many use Rare Earth metals? This 15-page overview of magnets explains key magnet concepts…
…include electric motors, including for electric vehicles; electric compressors, especially for HVAC applications and heat pumps; wind turbines. More mundanely, permanent magnets are also sold into ordinary household appliances like…
…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…
…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…
…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…