Energy transition from first principles?

…vehicles, LED lighting, VFDs, CHPs, insulation, methane mitigation. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/03/23/eroei-energy-return-on-energy-invested/ Energetic industries from first principles: the internet, industrial gases, hydrogen, ammonia, steel, battery recycling, trucks, transport, compressors. The new age of electricity from first principles: transmission,…

Global energy demand by end use?

Breakdown of global useful energy demand across 50 categories. The largest are electric motors and residential heat, followed by steel, general manufacturing, and plastics.

…heat >1,000◦C (chart below). The full data-file includes estimates of global energy demand across almost fifty end uses: agriculture, air conditioning, air separation, aluminium, ammonia, asphalt, aviation, bleach, buses, cement,…

European gas: anatomy of an energy crisis?

European gas demand across residential heat, commercial heat, electricity and a dozen industries.

…long-term, as the US can produce the same materials, at lower feedstock costs, while possibly also decarbonizing at source, via blue hydrogen value chains (examples below). https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/04/13/blue-ammonia-options-strategy/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/08/10/polyurethanes-what-upside-in-energy-transition/ https://thundersaidenergy.com/2023/07/06/hydrogen-reformers-smr-versus-atr/ The…

Industrial gases: air separation units?

industrial gases

Cryogenic air separation is used to produce 400MTpa of oxygen, plus pure nitrogen and argon; for steel, metals, ammonia, wind-solar inputs, semiconductor, blue hydrogen and Allam cycle oxy-combustion. Hence this…

CO2 concentrations in industrial exhaust streams?

CO2 concentrations in industrial exhaust streams

…industrial hydrogen from SMR in the refining, ammonia, chemicals and blue hydrogen industries). These be the most promising options for CCS, in our view. This simple data file aggregates data…

Energy transition: top commodities?

Commodities needed for energy transition

…covered in this data-file include Aluminium, Ammonia, Carbon Fiber, Coal, Cobalt, Copper, Ethylene Vinyl Acetate, Fluorinated Polymers, Fluorspar, Glass Fiber, Graphite, Hydrogen, Indium, Lithium, LNG, Mass Timber, Methanol, NdFeB Rare…

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