Wood products: typical pricing?
…$875/m3 is often sufficient for a 10% IRR at a new paper mill, while recent paper pricing has run around the $1,000/m3 mark. Board materials are another 2-4x more valuable…
Boston Metal: molten oxide electrolysis of steel?
…inflate the costs of substantively all new energies (note here). Boston Metal is aiming to commercialize a molten oxide electrolysis process, using large currents to reduce the Fe3+ ions in…
EROEI: energy return on energy invested?
…For example, it takes 100kWh of energy inputs to mine 1 ton of coal, which contains 6,500 kWh of thermal energy (65x gross EROEI), and then yields 4,000 kWh of…
Power grids: transmission and distribution kilometers by country?
…transmission is needed to build out wind and solar? Using our rules of thumb above, each 1 GW of new, utility-scale renewables might warrant constructing or upgrading around 500 km…
Vehicles: energy transition conclusions?
…power MOSFETs underlying EV traction inverters. (3) New and world-changing vehicle types will also be unlocked by electric motors’ greater compactness, simplicity and controllability. e-mobility provides an example with the…
Silicon carbide: production costs?
…application in practically all new energies (note here). However, measuring the price of SiC MOSFETs in terms of the cost per kg of SiC is a bit like measuring the…
Blue ammonia projects: a screen?
…effectively doubles IRRs on new projects; and the need to export more gas (in a low carbon form) from the US to geographies that may have persistent gas shortages. This…
Blue ammonia: options strategy?
…decarbonize combustion fuels in the future. This report covers where we see the best opportunities, as reforms to the 45Q have already kick-started a 20MTpa boom of new US projects….
Blue ammonia: options strategy?
…opportunities, as reforms to the 45Q have already kick-started a 20MTpa boom of new US projects. $599.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart The pathway to producing blue ammonia is technically ready,…
Power cuts: how frequent are grid disruptions?
…DOE’s power grid disruption database saw a trough of 141 incidents in 2016, rising to a new peak of 390 incidents in 2022. This is all the more remarkable because…