NET Power: gas-fired power with inherent CO2 capture?
…CO2 intensity is stated at 0.04-0.08 kg/kWh, comparable to utility-scale solar, and 98-99% below the current US power grid at 0.4 kg/kWh. We first looked at NET Power in a…
Boston Metal: molten oxide electrolysis of steel?
…Metal technology review, for our observations about these patents, their specificity, focus and scale-up into commercial manufacturing; and how these patents compare to other patent libraries that we have assessed….
CCS challenges: by any amines necessary?
…and offer up useful data that will matter for real world installations. CCS challenges. Seven challenges for commercial scale deployment of conventional CCS are presented on pages 7-10. We think…
EROEI: energy return on energy invested?
…and slower’ than today’s blended average global energy, especially coal and gas (page 6), which is not the end of the world (page 7), but does mean the scale-up of…
Diesel power generation: levelized costs?
A multi-MW scale diesel generator requires an effective power price of 20c/kWh, in order to earn a 10% IRR, on c$700/kW capex, assuming $70 oil prices and c150km trucking of…
Cement costs and energy economics?
…for the energy transition. A wind turbine uses 67 tons of cement per MW. So too might foundations of utility scale solar, power transmission lines, or the “pads” used to…
MHI CCS technology: performance, costs and emissions?
…facilities globally, with almost 4MTpa of CCS capacity, of which over half are smaller facilities purifying CO2 for urea production, and the largest is the 1.4MTpa Petra Nova CCS project,…
Offshore wind: levelized costs?
…delays and overruns inherent in large-scale construction. The capex numbers can all be flexed in the data-file. Offshore wind capex will tend to average $4,000 per kW according to our…
Plug power: green hydrogen breakthroughs?
…Plug Power is aiming to scale up as a world-leading supplier for $20bn pa of equipment and services across the end-to-end green hydrogen ecosystem by 2030: from electrolysers, to logistics,…
Energy transition: ten positive themes?
Positive themes in energy transition? It can feel gloomy, forecasting 2-6% global energy shortages, bottlenecks on material value chains that must scale by 3-30x, and even fearing that global conflicts…