Jet fuel demand: by region and forecasts to 2050?
…made up of 7.7bn people in the world, travelling an average of 900 air miles per person (chart below), in a plane with an average fuel economy of 54 passenger…
On the road: long-run oil demand after COVID-19?
…air travel, and reverse urbanization enabled by remote working. Load factors are lightly reduced, requiring more cars to service each passenger-mile of travel, as outlined on page 10. Higher road…
Coal-to-Power Project Economics
…for each of these input variables in the data-file. Greenfield coal projects in the developed world are no longer economic, as meeting stringent air standards inflates capex costs around 3x,…
Autonomous vehicles: where’s the IP?
…entrench a 10% acceleration in road travel post-COVID, and displace c15% of all air-miles on sub-1,000 mile journeys. Key findings on patent activity for technology developing autonomous vehicles and most…
Levelized cost of electricity: stress-testing LCOE?
…thermal storage, redox flow, pumped hydro, compressed air, flywheels, CCS and nature-based CO2 removals. The goal in this data-file is to allow for easy comparisons between different power generation options,…
Carbon offsets: ocean iron fertilization?
…and 37,000 bn tons is in deeper waters. The surface and the deep waters exchange c100 bn tons of carbon per year (in both directions), through the “ocean biological pump”,…
Transporting green hydrogen as ammonia or toluene?
…overall energy efficiency (in %), based on technical papers and recent guidance from Air Products (which aims to start up a 230kTpa project in 2025). With some generous assumptions, a…
Hydrogen: lost in transportation?
…a mere 3-6% CO2 reduction. Chemical carriers such as ammonia are assessed on pages 15-17. We model the value chain end-to-end, which makes for interesting conclusions on Air Products’s recently…
Phase change materials: technology leaders?
…are ranked in the Leaders tab, and can be filtered by sub-sectors (shown above are companies in the refrigeration and air conditioning industry). All the raw data across 5,800 patents…
Technology transition database: what determines adoption rates?
…transition database. Covered technologies include electricity, gas heating, stoves, running water, flush toilets, automobiles, fridges, dishwashers, air conditioners, radio, wired cable, televisions, VCRs, microwaves, home computers, fixed-line telephones, cell-phones, internet…