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  • Maintenance costs for gas-powered trucks?

    Maintenance costs for gas-powered trucks?

    Maintenance costs are tabulated by category, for a fleet of compressed natural gas (CNG) trucks, travelling 16M miles across the United States.

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  • Load bearing: will solar+gas be cheaper than gas alone?

    Load bearing: will solar+gas be cheaper than gas alone?

    The costs to power a real-world load โ€“ e.g., a data center โ€“ with solar+gas will very often be more expensive than via a standalone gas CCGT in the US today. But not internationally? Or in the future? This 9-page note shows how solar deflation and load shifting can boost solar to >40% of future…

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  • Fuel cells: performance, efficiency and decline rates?

    Fuel cells: performance, efficiency and decline rates?

    This data-file captures the performance of c160 fuel cell power plants, installed to-date in the US, generating over 2TWH of electricity, looking facility-by-facility, year-by-year. How has the performance, efficiency and longevity of US fuel cell power plants been trending over time?

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  • Market sizing: what if CO2 abatement costs are distributed like US income?

    Market sizing: what if CO2 abatement costs are distributed like US income?

    How would CO2 abatement costs end up being distributed, if they matched the distribution of US incomes? 90% of all decarbonization would have to cost less than $80/ton. There could be 600MTpa of CCS, 60MTpa of DAC, 6MTpa of green hydrogen and e-fuels?

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  • Material and manufacturing costs by region: China vs US vs Europe?

    Material and manufacturing costs by region: China vs US vs Europe?

    Material and manufacturing costs by region are compared in this data-file for China vs the US vs Europe. Generally, compared with the US, materials costs are 10% lower in China, and 40% higher in Germany, although it depends upon the specific value chain. A dozen different examples are contrasted in this data-file, especially for solar…

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  • Engineering and construction companies screen?

    Engineering and construction companies screen?

    40% of total installed project costs tend to accrue to construction companies, as screened in this data-file. The average of 25 large engineering and construction companies has 100 years of operating history, 35,000 employees, generated $13bn pa of revenues in 2023, and at a c4% EBIT margins.

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  • Electrochemistry: battery voltage and the Nernst Equation?

    Electrochemistry: battery voltage and the Nernst Equation?

    What determines the Voltage of an electrochemical cell, such as a lithium ion battery, redox flow battery, a hydrogen fuel cell, an electrolyser or an electrowinning plant? This note explains electrochemical voltages, from first principles, starting with Standard Potentials and the Nernst Equation.

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  • US electricity demand: by sector, by use, over time?

    US electricity demand: by sector, by use, over time?

    US electricity sales reached 4,000 TWH in 2024, rising +2.3% YoY, and bringing the trailing ten-year CAGR to 0.5% pa. The current breakdown is 38% residential, 36% commercial, 26% industrial. All three are now growing. To help understand load growth, this data-file is a breakdown of US electricity demand by sector, by use and over…

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  • Methane slip: how much gas evades combustion?

    Methane slip: how much gas evades combustion?

    Methane slip occurs when a small portion of natural gas fails to combust, and instead escapes into the atmosphere. This data-file reviews different technical papers. Methane slip is effectively nil at gas turbines and gas heating (less than 0.1%). It rises to 0.5-3% in cookstoves and some dual-fuel marine engines. However, the highest rate of…

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  • The World’s Great Gas Fields and Their CO2

    The World’s Great Gas Fields and Their CO2

    This data-file tabulates 30 major gas resources around the world, their volumes, their CO2 content and how the CO2 is handled. This matters because higher CO2 gas fields are more costly to develop into LNG, while CO2 venting is no longer acceptable without CCS. Permian & Marcellus LNG are best positioned.

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