US Refining: energy and CO2 intensity
This data-file tabulates the energy intensity and resultant CO2 intensity of the US refining industry, source by source, year by year, back to 1986. Emissions of refining a barrel of…
Thunder Said Energy: CO2 Neutral in 2019
…remaining 5.6 tons (chart above). This 9-page note contains granular data on professional service firms’ emissions and opportunities to reduce them. Download (free) Thunder Said Energy’s CO2 emissions were 5.6…
Ten Themes for Energy in the 2020s
We presented our ‘Top Ten Themes for Energy in the 2020s’ to an audience at Yale SOM, in February-2020. The audio recording is available below. The slides are available to…
Do Methane Leaks Detract from Natural Gas?
…here). Converting back into energy-equivalent units is the most comparable metric, to assess the methane leakage rates of different energy resources. The average ton of coal mined under the US…
Upstream technology leaders: weathering the downturn?
Leading technologies correlate 50-80% with ROACEs and -88% with costs in the energy industry. Hence, we assessed 6,000 patents from 2018-19, to determine which Energy Majors are best-placed to weather…
The route to net zero: an energy-climate model for 2-degrees
…oceans may ‘buy a budget’ for some fossil fuels in a ‘net zero’ energy system. This is not a free pass to the fossil fuel industry to continue business as…
Energy transition technologies: the pace of progress?
This data-file aggregates 20 different TSE patent screens, to assess the pace of progress in different energy technologies. Our short, 3-page summary note on the findings is linked here. $499.00 – Purchase…
Afforesting deserts: energy economics?
…would likely require well over 300T of water per T of CO2 and the energy economics become impossible. The data-file also contains useful workings from our recent research report, Green…
Gas pipelines, CO2 pipelines, hydrogen pipelines?
This model captures the energy economics of gas pipelines, CO2 pipelines and hydrogen pipelines. Specifically, we have modelled energy requirements using simple fluid mechanics, and modelled capex costs using past…
Backstopping renewables: cold storage beats battery storage?
…energy as coldness in these fridges and freezers (aka “demand shifting“), improving their efficiency by c20% and without requiring power prices to increase. The energy economics of cold storage are…