Solar water heaters: the economics?
…of electrical/gas power (determining how competitive solar water heaters are with other heating methods). Under our base case estimates, it would require a CO2 price of around $130/ton, to incentivize…
District heating: the economics?
…data-file models generalized economics, based on the capital costs to pipe heat to each household, gas prices, heat consumption and efficiency factors. You can flex these variables in the model….
Nuclear Power Project Economics
…challenges have included high capex costs and long construction cycles. This means that a CO2 price of $270/ton is required before new nuclear projects would outcompete new gas projects, on…
Energy infrastructure: labor intensity?
…the R-squared is only 33%. Project parameters have a large impact. Wind, solar and gas generation projects are logistically easiest. The average GW-scale project here has cost $1,160/kW and required…
Net zero Oil Majors: worth the cost?
…model a typical Oil Major with 1Mboed of upstream production, 1Mbpd of refining and marketing, a gas marketing business and 5MTpa of annual chemicals production. We estimate this Oil Major…
Pipeline costs: moving oil, products or other liquids?
…flows are captured in our gas pipeline model, as the physics are very different (gases are compressible). Our base case model covers a large, 1-meter pipeline, carrying 1Mbpd of light…
Carbon offsets: ocean iron fertilization?
…the impedance of light by materials such as sinking organic matter (our screen below finds a rich improvement in autonomy and precision of concepts for the oil and gas industry)….
Very long term historical commodity prices and disruptions?
…note linked here. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2020/09/03/great-white-whales-the-end-of-oil-and-gas Agricultural commodities followed the pattern of deflating in the 19th century, followed by sharp rises since the inflationary shocks of the 1970s. Generally, wheat prices and…
Combined heat and power: the economics?
…the grid, due to high efficiency capturing and using exhaust heat in CHPs. Economic sensitivities can be stress-tested, including to power prices, gas prices, thermal efficiencies and system sizes (examples…
Costs of CCS with the amine process?
This data-file models the costs of amine process CCS, capturing post-combustion CO2 from exhaust gases using amines, in order to calculate what CO2 price is necessary to earn a passable…