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…only 1.5m above sea level, subsidence is running at 0.4-3.4mmpa, and salinisation will trouble traditional agriculture. This evokes fears over very large ‘displaced populations’. (9) Large-scale coastal defences. New York…
…costs of hydrogen electrolysers are decomposed on pages 5-7, across forty distinct categories. Cost drivers are also discussed. Benefits of scale will allow for deflation. But how much? We answer…
…degradation rates. https://thundersaidenergy.com/2022/09/29/battery-degradation-causes-effects-implications The scale-up of Chinese manufacturing is the other major cost improvement taking place in global battery supply chains. Full-cycle manufacturing costs can be 50% lower than in…
…share as grids become more saturated with renewables, in addition to CHPs, PCMs and fuel cells, per our prior research. All of these are much more economical than grid-scale batteries….
…already under-taken projects using CO2 in agriculture and greenhouses, while industrial gas and monitoring companies can also benefit. But the challenge is scale. Around 50Tpa of CO2 is supplied to…
…sustainability report plans to test-plant 40 species of Empress Trees in 2019. Problems with Paulownia? Invasiveness? One of the largest pushbacks on reforestation is that large-scale planting of single forest…
…way to blue. Blue hydrogen is not just a low-carbon fuel. More importantly, it is the most economic and practical route to establishing large-scale carbon capture and storage. Economics are…
…sufficient size or scale for this feat until around 2100. What is also different today is that policy-makers seem intent on banning incumbent energy sources before we have transitioned to…
…Ellis Bailey. The first vertical farms were actually built in the 1950s, to grow cress indoors at large scale. LED application for plant growth was first studied in the 1990s,…
…the rationale for the purchases, the projects supported, how they are verified, their scale and their cost. We find appetite for carbon offsets accelerating. 60% of the projects are reforestation…