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…simple cycle gas turbines only achieve c40%. The theme and opportunity are therefore explored in our 17-page note below. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2020/09/17/a-new-case-for-gas-what-if-renewables-get-overbuilt/ (4) Over-building electric vehicles? Subsidies for EVs are also more…
…into heat. The problem with this definition is that all combustion technologies and resistive heating technologies score close to 100% efficient. Combusting gas on a gas stove released almost all…
…a combined cycle gas turbine (chart below). Here is hoping that this simple model of gas turbine efficiency is useful. Intriguingly, we think that the energy penalties for gas-fired CCS…
…Gas demand falls 25% from 90bcfd in 2022 to 66bcfd in 2050 (global gas model here). Switching coal to gas saves 50-60% of the CO2 for the same amount of…
…run on LNG, which can reach $17-35M for the largest tankers. Gas Weathering is another challenge, less well-known, but crucially important. LNG is a mixture of hydrocarbon gases, all with…
…of this coal power to gas by 2030. Converting it to decarbonised gas could save c1bn tons of CO2 emissions per annum. In turn, this could be achieved by 200GW…
…hydrogen was produced globally. 95% of it was grey, meaning it was derived from steam-methane reforming of natural gas. The cost of this process is around $1.3/kg ($11.5/mcf-gas– equivalent) and…
…disruptions. Meanwhile, Europe’s 15bcfd of Russian gas imports, volumetrically equivalent to 110MTpa of LNG, are shifting. The best note covering our gas outlook is linked here and our European gas…
…actuated by pressurized natural gas, widely used in the oil and gas industry, and numbering around 800,000 in the US in 2021, across 22Mboed of production that we are tracking,…
…including heat pumps, renewables, biogas and hydrogen. The lowest cost and most practical solution is to double down on natural gas, alongside nature-based carbon offsets. Global gas demand for heating…