CO2 intensity of materials: an overview?
…the data-file. We have estimated separately the CO2 intensity of different wood fuels, crop production, how it varies with fertilizer application, palm oil. All of our biofuels research is here….
CO2 offsets: Pachama’s AI platform?
…of the entire global fertilizer industry per our CO2 breakdown. This raises some question marks. It gets a bit philosophical, but in our view, carbon “offsetting” should be about cancelling…
Our Top Ten Research Notes of 2020
…offset another 3-15GTpa of CO2. With a $30/ton CO2 price, mid-Western farmers could make more money farming carbon than corn. The theme would also disrupt the global fertilizer industry. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2020/05/01/conservation-agriculture-farming-carbon-into-soils/…
Nature based solutions to climate change: a summary
…as one third of the atmosphere’s post-industrial CO2 derives from degradation of soil carbon. Fertilizer demand would also halve in this scenario. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2020/05/01/conservation-agriculture-farming-carbon-into-soils/ The need for land is one of…
Conservation agriculture: farming carbon into soils?
…mechanized agriculture. Conservation agriculture rebuilds soil carbon. It can sequester 3-15 bn tons of CO2 per year, generating carbon credits, while restoring loss-making farmlands to exceptional profitability. Fertilizer demand would…
Biogas: the economics?
…and the value of residual digestate, which can be used as fertilizer or bedding in agriculture. Our base case biogas cost model sees a 10% IRR from a combination of…
Industrial gases: out of thin air?
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…
Methane leaks: by gas source and use
…consumers such as power plants, LNG plants, ammonia plants, hydrogen reformers, industrial heating and households. Hence in the title chart above, we have attempted to build up the methane intensity…
US decarbonization: energy and CO2 emissions?
…the US IRA, for example blue ammonia and blue steel. All of our CCS research is here. CO2 removals using nature-based solutions treble from 760MTpa today to over 2GTpa in…
Hydrogen reformers: SMR versus ATR?
…autothermal reforming (ATR). Each has merits and challenges. ATR looks excellent for clean ammonia. While the IRA creates CCS upside for today’s SMR incumbents, across industrial gases, refining and chemicals….