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…plant costs around 80-90% less than constructing a new one. It also costs around 25-50% less than constructing new wind and solar, using a rounded $1,000/kWe ballpark. Increasing the capacity…
…step-change feels similar to the contrast between modern renewables and the small, inefficient wind and solar plants being constructed in the mid-2000s. We offer up some predictions on page 11….
…wind and solar and the ramp-up of renewables in our roadmap to net zero. Please download the data-file to stress-test the numbers and see our estimates for the breakdown of…
…and whether intermittent wind/solar can be put to better use elsewhere. (1) In an alkaline electrolyser, water is broken down at the cathode. 4 x H2O molecules gains 4 x…
…the building blocks for solar inverters, wind converters, battery chargers and EV drive trains. We argue that their crucial role in new energies is analogous to the $100bn pa valve…
…CO2 intensity is stated at 0.04-0.08 kg/kWh, comparable to utility-scale solar, and 98-99% below the current US power grid at 0.4 kg/kWh. We first looked at NET Power in a…
…There is no modern wind, solar, batteries without carbon fiber, ethylene vinyl acetate, fluorinated polymers; and in turn, these are some of the most sophisticated and complex value chains in…
…and solar, offer another step-change upwards in efficiency, and will harness over 80% of the theoretically recoverable energy in diffuse sunlight and blowing in the wind (i.e., relative to the…
…the median American. The best examples in the 4GTpa middle ground of pragmatic decarbonization technologies costing $20-80/ton of CO2 abatement include wind, solar, expanding power grids, scaling up natural gas…
…record oil demand, LNG tensions, wind and solar upside vs bottlenecks, combustion energy capex trends, an estimate of global energy under-investment since 2015, our latest energy supply-demand balances, debates over…