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…costs incurred in a (relatively) small conflict like Iraq ($1tn per year), such costs would likely quickly exceed the $1.5tn total estimate. There are further risks to democracies and government…
…price. For decarbonization of ethylene production, proposals that have crossed our screens include increasing blends of renewables into the electricity mix, and even using small modular nuclear reactors to source…
…of the energy in the gas as heat (and a very very small portion of light). Passing a current through the electrically resistant nichrome coil also releases almost all of…
…olefins can be further processed via standard polymerization, modelled here. Bioplastic production volumes are still quite small, equivalent to <0.5% of all global plastics. For perspective, the total plastics market…
This short essay argues current carbon accounting frameworks may not be entirely helpful. Metrics like “Scope 1”, “Scope 2” and “Scope 3” only make sense for a small subset of…
LanzaTech aspires to “take waste carbon emissions and convert them” into sustainable fuels (and bio-plastics) with a >70% CO2 reduction. It has produced small volumes in China since 2017, partnered…
…detect smaller extinction events from the distant past. This implies that for every 15M year period, there is approximately a “one-in-a-million” chance of a mass extinction event threatening the majority…
…pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”. So too with the grid. A small tilt from surplus to deficit results in blackout misery, costing billions in economic…
…or possibly even a small profit. Re-deploying old solar panels could also accelerate the global deployment of solar by c5%. Our notes, conclusions and numbers are built up in the…
…likely too small. The best candidates are c100 specific facilities in the cement, steel and ammonia industries, which are the “right size”, have concentrated CO2 emissions and explain around 2%…