Gas Generators Get Caught With Their Plants Down
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2023 02:07:57 +0000
While natural gas plants underperform, wind farms outperform.
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Montana Judge Cancels Air Permit for Gas-Fired Power Plant
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 15:13:50 +0000
A judge in Montana has canceled the air quality permit for a natural gas-fired power plant under construction in the state, citing concerns about emissions of greenhouse gases from the […]
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Read moreIndustrial Heat Will Decarbonize With Electricity, Not Molecules, & Kanthal SVP Helps Us Understand Why
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:45:32 +0000
I had the opportunity to sit down for 90 minutes with Dilip Chandrasekaran, engineer, materials science PhD and SVP of industrial heat leader Kanthal.
Oil Tankers Already Sailing Into The Sunset Of Peak Oil Demand
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.
How Much Steel Will All Those Wind Turbines & Solar Panels Need, & Can We Make It?
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.
Steel’s Outsized Carbon Emissions Will Shrink Rapidly In Coming Decades Even As Demand Rises
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.
Alberta’s Premier Does The Same Stuff Her American Counterparts Do
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:05:17 +0000
Looking at social media, it’s easy to assume that Canada is like a left-leaning version of the United States. Celebrities promise to move there if elections don’t go their way, but they almost never actually do it. We’re also reminded regularly by Canadian Twitter users that we’re dumb when things go wrong that they don’t […]
Bay Area Sets NOx Emissions Standards for Gas Water Heaters & Furnaces, Effectively Ending Sales Starting in 2027
Credit to Author: Joe Wachunas| Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:10:14 +0000
Big news for clean air last week. The Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) adopted amendments requiring the elimination of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from new water heaters by 2027 and new furnaces by 2029. We’ve been hearing about the indoor pollution from gas stoves this year. Gas water heaters and furnaces also have […]
Steel Is A Major Climate Problem, But Can Decarbonize Rapidly In The Coming Decades
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 […]
Steel Is A Major Climate Problem, But We Have Proven Tools
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.