DC-DC power converters: efficiency calculations?
DC-DC power converters are used to alter the voltage in DC circuits, such as in wind turbines, solar MPPT, batteries and digital/computing devices. This data-file is a breakdown of DC-DC…
Power grids: opportunities in the energy transition?
…and controllability of electrified technology is usually 3-5x higher than comparable heat engines. It is analogous to the shift from analogue to digital. 40% of the world’s useful energy is…
CO2 intensity of materials: an overview?
…we cannot plot the data in kWh/ton or CO2/ton. This includes the CO2 of different forms of transportation, digital processes, or hydrogen. Agricultural commodities are also not captured in the…
Omniscience: how will AI reshape the energy transition?
…digital energy consumption (pages 2-3). This will create upside for global energy demand in the short-term. But 80-90% of primary energy is also wasted in today’s global energy system. And…
LEDs: seeing the light?
…and use in digital devices. We have screened 20 mature and (mostly) profitable pure plays. $599.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart LEDs generate light as a direct current passes across a…
Shale oil: fractured forecasts?
…We spent summer of 2017, reading several hundred technical papers from the US shale industry, and published a 200-page book arguing shale was a “new technology paradigm, a digital revolution,…
Global tin demand: upside in energy transition?
…Demand forecasts can be stress-tested in the data-file, varying with GDP (chart below), future growth of solar, EVs and digital devices, phasing out of lead acid batteries for other battery…
Patent Leaders in Energy
…quantify our “Top Ten” patent leaders in energy. https://vimeo.com/357450011 This 34-page note ranks the industry’s “Top 10 technology-leaders”: in upstream, offshore, deep-water, shale, LNG, gas-marketing, downstream, chemicals, digital and renewables….
Bill of materials: electronic devices and data-centers?
…Steel is the joint largest material exposure for electronic devices, although this is unsurprising, as steel is the most-used structural material on the planet, and in digital devices as well,…
Semiconductors: outlook in energy transition?
…MOSFETs are fast-acting digital switches, convert DC to AC in inverters, change voltage levels in DC-DC converters, and beyond. Never bet against semiconductors!! The computing power of a chip has…