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…closed a $290M Series E financing in 2022. Mainspring is commercializing a linear generator, which is low-cost, reliable, flexible and can use any clean fuel (e.g., natural gas, biogas, hydrogen,…
…CO2e from methane is halved. It is useful to capture 75% of the 25bcfd of methane emitted by livestock and landfills as biogas. Materials value chains must all generally get…
…1966. Today, tens of thousands of PSA plants purify hydrogen, biogas, polymers, nitrogen/oxygen and possibly in the future, can capture CO2? This 16-page note explores the technology, costs, challenges, companies….
…and LNG value chains? Or it could be modified to increase the yields of methane in biogas, which typically contains 30-40% CO2 in the mix? However we think costs will…
…Wh/kg, while batteries today are 250 Wh/kg and will at best reach 1,250 Wh/kg (data here). We have evaluated sustainable aviation fuels, such as renewable jet, biogas-to-liquids, bio-ethanol-to-jet and e-fuels,…
…possibly also biogas or hydrogen. Our build-up looks across five main categories: large power facilities, large industrial heating facilities, landfill gas, electric vehicle charging and smaller-scale commercial and multi-family usage….
…biogas or hydrogen (chart below). Similarly attractive conclusions hold for decarbonized gas in the power sector. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2020/05/17/decarbonize-heat/ Reforestation is the largest nature based opportunity, with potential to absorb 15bn tons…
…(deep burial or biochar are superior to biofuels, note below). https://thundersaidenergy.com/2021/04/15/biogas-to-liquids-decarbonize-aviation-fuels/ (7) Some processes are lower-carbon. Specifically, this means that the process results in a smaller flux of CO2 into…