Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:45:23 +0000
Hydrogen and fossil fuels dwarf renewables in BC’s pension fund. Its claim to be “The Investment Manager of Choice for British Columbia’s Public Sector” doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2023 18:05:10 +0000
If you are only burning a few hundred gallons a year for a data center drawing 100 MW 24/7/365, the cost and carbon debt of fuel for your generators is not material.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2023 15:52:28 +0000
Biofuels are fit for purpose, and we have a lot more resources for them than the requirements. Arguments against them are mostly specious, biased, or based on very stale data.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2023 15:24:37 +0000
If you’re a regular around here, you probably know that we prefer renewable electricity for powering vehicles. This usually involves battery storage, though. While battery technology has gotten to the point where it’s viable to do things like electric cars, boats, trucks, and even some planes, the relatively low energy density of batteries will be […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:39:59 +0000
At the coal face of a conference that involved governmental figures, academics, logistics customers and OEMs, the detailed technical conversations are almost all about how battery electric trucks will work in the coming decades.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2023 01:10:48 +0000
There’s a lot to like in the new US transportation decarbonization blueprint. It’s actually very good in most ways, which is excellent to see given that the US hydrogen strategy from late last year was so poor. And it’s needed.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:55:27 +0000
By 2050, airport electricity demand will be in the range of four times as high as 2019 levels, and by 2050, five times as high. By 2100? Twelve times.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2022 09:04:02 +0000
United Airlines and Airbus are working on ways to reduce emissions from air travel by using hydrogen and sodium-ion batteries.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:00:54 +0000
Engineers working on hydrogen, evtols, UAM, vertiports, hypersonic passenger planes, and synthetic fuels, I’m sorry your babies are ugly.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:26:26 +0000
The US hydrogen strategy was positioned in the wrong federal department. It was put in the hands of people who deal with fossil fuels all day long and have a paradigm of burning them for energy, not a paradigm of electricity for energy. It fails Rumelt’s test for the first thing that makes a good strategy, and so its principles and actions will be failures as well.