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…Charging a battery is simply running this same circuit in reverse. Likewise, electrowinning is an electrical technology used to separate metals from mixtures, such as aluminium, zinc, copper, silver and…
…US E&P, US refining, Western coal, LNG shipping. Mining sectors covered include aluminium, copper, cobalt, lithium, nickel, uranium, silica and silver. Correlation between market concentration and operating margins in energy…
…plants, industrial gas production, electric arc furnaces, aluminium, chlor-alkali, polymers, paper, silicon, sulphur, glass, hydrofluoric acid, small-scale hydrogen and hydrogen cyanide. A best to worst ranking depends on the technical…
…spaces. But often, it takes some energy economics to determine how much material you can thrift. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/01/26/solar-surface-silver-thrifting/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/downloads/power-cables-how-much-copper-and-aluminium/ Does that company’s technology work? We like to answer this question by…
…lighter-weight materials, especially to reduce the weight of passenger vehicles, displacing steel with aluminium, glass fiber, carbon fiber, mass timber, advanced polymers. Indeed, steel demand could exceed 4GTpa by 2050,…
…longer range, but the drawback of higher battery costs, materials requirements and vehicle weight. More efficiency vehicles also help, which may accelerate the trend towards lightweighting (carbon fiber, aluminium, advanced…
…heat >1,000◦C (chart below). The full data-file includes estimates of global energy demand across almost fifty end uses: agriculture, air conditioning, air separation, aluminium, ammonia, asphalt, aviation, bleach, buses, cement,…
Power grid circuit kilometers need to rise 3-5x in the energy transition. This trend directly tightens global aluminium markets by over c20%, and global copper markets by c15%. Slow recent…
…covered in this data-file include Aluminium, Ammonia, Carbon Fiber, Coal, Cobalt, Copper, Ethylene Vinyl Acetate, Fluorinated Polymers, Fluorspar, Glass Fiber, Graphite, Hydrogen, Indium, Lithium, LNG, Mass Timber, Methanol, NdFeB Rare…
…7 tons of CO2. Half of the energy use in lithium ion batteries is in materials, such as lithium, nickel, graphite, fluorinated polymers, fluorides, copper, aluminium and other plastics. The…