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  • AI: industrial applications by company?

    AI: industrial applications by company?

    This data-file tabulates industrial companies deploying AI, based on their patent filings. 200 leading industrial companies have filed 40,000 AI/ML-related patents in 2022-24, with 65% now developing their own AIs in house. Examples are summarized. We will continue adding to and expanding this data-file over time.

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  • Computer memory: aide memoire?

    Computer memory: aide memoire?

    Three types of computer memory dominate modern information processing: Flash, DRAM and SRAM. This 5-page note simply covers each one, how it works, what it costs, advantages, disadvantages, market sizes and leading companies. AI likely boosts all three, but can more SRAM unlock big efficiency gains?

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  • Helium production: the economics?

    Helium production: the economics?

    This economic model captures the production costs of helium, which is cryogenically extracted from low concentrations in natural gas. $200/mcf helium prices can support 10% IRRs on a resource with 2% helium content. $400-1,000/mcf spot prices can unlock 50-100% IRRs and trigger a capex boom. Economics can be stress-tested in this data-file.

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  • Capacitor market: leading companies?

    Capacitor market: leading companies?

    This data-file profiles a dozen leading companies in capacitors, which control two-thirds of the $30bn pa global market. Many companies also produce other passive electronic components, sensors and MOSFETs. Hence will the rise of AI, especially transient-heavy data-centers, pull on demand?

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  • Global energy market model for the energy transition?

    Global energy market model for the energy transition?

    This data-file is a global energy market model for the energy transition. It contains long-term energy supply-demand forecasts by energy source; based on a dozen core input assumptions. Total useful energy consumed by human civilization rises from 80,000 TWH pa to 140,000 TWH pa by 2050. The mix is 30% gas, 30% solar, 15% oil,…

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  • Omniscience: how will AI reshape the energy transition?

    Omniscience: how will AI reshape the energy transition?

    AI will be a game-changer for global energy efficiency, saving 10x more energy than it consumes directly, closing ‘thermodynamic gaps’ where 80-90% of all primary energy is wasted today. Leading corporations will harness AI to lower costs and accelerate decarbonization. This 19-page note explores opportunities.

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  • Energy transition market sizing: hydrocarbon, new energies, capital goods and materials?

    Energy transition market sizing: hydrocarbon, new energies, capital goods and materials?

    This data-file contains energy transition market sizing analysis, for hydrocarbons, new energies, capital goods and materials in $bn pa, integrating over 1,000 items of energy transition research and our latest roadmap to net zero. In aggregate, energy, materials and transition-related markets double from $25 trn pa to $50 trn pa.

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  • Wind and solar capacity additions?

    Wind and solar capacity additions?

    Global wind and solar capacity additions reached 600GW pa (AC-basis) in 2024, which is 2x higher than in 2021 and 10x higher than in 2011. The pace of gross wind and solar capacity additions can rise by a further 5x by 2050, bringing wind and solar to 60% of a greatly expanded global power grid…

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  • EV fast charging: opening the electric floodgates?

    EV fast charging: opening the electric floodgates?

    This 14-page note explains the crucial power-electronics in an electric vehicle fast-charging station, running at 150-350kW. Most important are power-MOSFETs, comprising c5-10% of charger costs. The market trebles by the late 2020s.

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  • Energy transition: the very hungry caterpillar?

    Energy transition: the very hungry caterpillar?

    The universe of energy transition stocks seems small at first. 50 clean tech companies have $1trn in combined value, less than 1% of all global equities. But decarbonizing the world is insatiable. Consuming ever more sectors. We are now following over $15trn of market cap across new energies, (clean) conventional energy, utilities, capital goods, mining,…

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