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…electricity, and enhanced geothermal heat. The capex costs for geothermal draw on our models, which capture the costs of drilling wells, heat exchangers and Organic Rankine Cycles. Please download the…
…budget was a major consideration). No amount of heating would make this property warm in the winter! For this reason, I have retained some skepticism about converting residential heat to…
…turn, is used to reject heat from air (about one-third of the total) and to reject heat from the inevitable condensation of water, as air cools down (about two-third of…
This data-file aims to provide a simple model for how generally well-covered grids can fail catastrophically during a heatwave. Power generation is sensitive to heatwaves because an increase in temperature…
Overbuilding renewables may have unintended consequences, making power grids more expensive and less reliable. Hence more businesses may choose to generate their own power behind the meter, installing combined heat…
…particularly complicated. It takes 80% as much heat to melt 1kg of ice as it takes to boil 1kg of water, which means that the surface temperatures above sea ice…
Combined heat and power systems are 20-30% lower-carbon than today’s gas turbines, as they capture waste heat. They are also increasingly economical to backstop renewable-heavy grids. Amidst uncertain policies, the…
…donkeys descending from the mountains. Similarly, Seneca mocked the “skinny youths” who ate snow rather than simply bearing the heat ‘like a proper Roman’. Millennia later, dying US President James…
…true that land uses with a lower albedo will absorb more heat. But how much more heat? (2) Albedo impacts are a rounding error? Overall, our roadmap to net zero…
This data-file captures the costs of thermal energy storage, buying renewable electricity, heating up a storage media, then releasing the heat for industrial, commercial or residential use. Our base case…