Pump costs: energy economics of electric pumps?
…rate (chart below). All of these variables can be stress-tested in the ‘PumpModel’ tab. The power consumption of a pump is modeled from first principles, using the formula that pump…
Silver pastes for solar contacts?
…the per surface silver intensity down to 10 g/kW-DC in future, per our model here. The role of the glass frit is to carry silver particles through the passivation layer…
Electromagnetic energy: Planck, Shockley-Queisser, power beaming?
…in a solar module? And what implications? We answer these questions by modelling the Planck Equation and Shockley-Queisser limit from first principles. $299.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Electromagnetic radiation is…
Bright green hydrogen from biomass gasification?
…sequesters the carbon in biomass, addressing challenges over the permanence of some nature-based CO2 removals. The economics of biomass gasification are modelled in this data-file, albeit screening as somewhat expensive,…
Midstream opportunities in the energy transition?
…rises 8% by 2030 and 12% by 2035 as captured in our US energy model. (3) Gas will entrench as the leading backstop for renewables, and especially in the face…
Power transmission: the economics?
…we have constructed into high-voltage transmission lines. We have also separately modeled the costs of HVDCs, for longer-distance transmission. For more details, please see our overview of power transmission. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2022/05/05/power-transmission-raising-electrical-potential…
Oklo: fast reactor technology?
…Numbers can be stress-tested in our nuclear cost model. In April-2024, Diamondback Energy also agreed a 20-year PPA to procure 50MW of emission-free electricity for its operations in the Permian…
Commodity price volatility: energy, metals and ags?
…then the data imply that mean average prices will tend to run 1.1 – 1.5x above median expectations. The final two tabs of the data-file model the lognormal volatility of…
Energy trading: value in volatility?
…major commodities, over the past 50-years. More volatile commodities generally have higher mean average prices, as shown on pages 4-5. In order to model the impacts of rising volatility upon…
Sugar production: the economics?
The costs of sugar production are estimated at $260/ton for a 10% IRR at a world-scale sugar refinery, in a major sugar-producing region. Higher returns are achievable at recent world…