Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:15:25 +0000
Build plug-in or battery swappable hybrid ships. Get big battery range increases every few years of the vessel’s life. Run biofuels through a generator into the battery in diminishing tonnage.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:35:52 +0000
In sales pitches for methanol and ammonia for maritime fuels, the numbers don’t add up, and the omissions are glaring.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:35:12 +0000
As a living document, the strategy is still deeply flawed, but less flawed than the first one. If the DOE updates it every six months, and there’s as much movement each time, then by 2025 or 2026 it could be a good strategy.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:51:05 +0000
We don’t need to make 25 times as much biofuel, we need to make perhaps four or five times as much as we do today. And we have to stop wasting it on ground transportation.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 18:35:58 +0000
We have enough waste biomass feedstock to fulfill all of our transportation needs, and the market and a bunch of bright people will figure out which ones are cheapest and lowest impact.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:01:31 +0000
Governments shouldn’t be rewarding firms that are actually emitting more CO2e just because they are making hydrogen.
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:05:07 +0000
After stumbling on biofuel, algae finds its footing and steps up to help the concrete industry cut its carbon footprint, too.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 05:31:05 +0000
E-fuels have been at the heart of a dispute between Germany and the European Commission but it seems the problem has been solved … for now.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:13:45 +0000
Methanol is like hydrogen. Job one is to decarbonize existing uses before inventing new ones. As a marine fuel, it’s not the best choice.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:30:46 +0000
Over the past couple of years, I’ve reached the end of my first set of scenarios for marine decarbonization through 2100. My bets are on batteries for all inland and two-thirds of short-sea shipping, and biofuels for the rest. It took me years to work through the aspects of synthetic and biologically fossil fuel alternatives, […]