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…which are relevant to semiconductor devices, materials value chains and energy transition itself. The resistance of metals is explained on pages 2-3. From first principles, why does the copper used…
…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…
…spanning across the gold, silver, iron, copper and limestone quarrying industries (see the ‘capex’ tab). Our energy intensity estimates are informed by mine disclosures and technical papers, but we have…
…terms (i.e. nominal prices of the time). Covered commodities include bricks, coal, copper, cotton, nails, rock oil, steel rails, sugar, turpentine, whale oil, wheat and wood. A combined profile of…
…an adjacent opportunity in STATCOMs, a screen of leading HVDC companies, a patent review for Prysmian, project parameters for Chinese HVDCs, and an overview of future aluminium and copper demand….
…heat recovery at power plants or the cryogenics behind ASUs and LNG. This hinges on aluminium’s materials properties. It is 70% lighter than copper, and about 70% more economical, despite…
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…
This data-file models the economics of recycling spent lithium ion batteries, taking in waste cells at end-of-life, and recovering materials such as cobalt, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminium, lithium and steel….
…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…
…for key materials used in batteries, motors and traction inverters, such as lithium, fluorinated polymers, battery-grade nickel, graphite, copper, Rare Earth Metals and SiC. Retirement rates of vehicles depend on…