Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 19:35:27 +0000
Wrights Law isn’t going to save the deep inefficiencies of SMRs. As I pointed out two years ago, the world tried tiny commercial nuclear reactors in the 1960s and 1970s, they were too expensive.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2023 16:35:59 +0000
The number of new VLCCs to be delivered in 2024? Zero. The number to be delivered in 2025? One.
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: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:35:13 +0000
Steel will not remotely be a constraint for global transformation of energy over the coming decades. We make vastly more of it per year than annual requirements, and there’s an increasing amount of scrap being created.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:35:28 +0000
With more scrapping and more direct reduction using lower carbon technologies such as Midrex’ DRI and HYBRIT every decade, and the likely creation of those facilities closer to iron ore mines, high-emissions furnaces will go out of business over the coming decades, unable to decarbonize.
Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 17:35:09 +0000
A new type of autonomous electric train is on track to electrify the US freight rail network and push diesel trucks off the highways, too
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:15:20 +0000
Already 2.4 times as expensive as very, very expensive Hinkley. First of a kind, so very likely to double or more in price. Very unlikely to be built before 2040 due to long-tailed risks.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:25:18 +0000
Steel, like concrete, is such an integral part of our world that we rarely notice it. From wherever you are reading this, I guarantee that there is steel in your line of sight, and likely vastly more of it than you realize. Whatever device you are reading it on has steel inside of it. If […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:35:18 +0000
We’ve already manufactured an awful lot of steel. There are hundreds of billions of tons of the stuff lying around, much of it obsolete.
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 17:05:13 +0000
Boston’s pending green building code is an important element of many challenges that Wu will need to solve for Boston’s Green New Deal to become a truly just recovery.