The Unused Energy All Around Us: How Rejected Energy Can Help Us Go Green

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2023 02:30:39 +0000

DALL·E 2023-01-06 A house that recovers heat from flushed water image by AI tool DALL-eChatGPT knows more stuff than you do. A lot more stuff. The entire internet of stuff. Asking it about anything is more likely to provide a complete answer than writing it yourself, even if the subject is nerdy energy flow diagrams.

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LLNL’s Energy Flow Diagrams Show That The US Isn’t Moving The Needle On Climate Action

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2023 02:50:35 +0000

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Sankey diagram of US energy flows for 2021In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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Airports Will Increment Solar To Match 12x Electricity Demand By 2100

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:55:27 +0000

Electrification demand scenario for smaller international airport through 2100By 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.

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How Much Electricity Will Electric Airplanes Need, & How Much Will It Cost?

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:00:15 +0000

1.8 MW solar array at Austin-Bergstrom International AirportHow much electricity will be required for electric aviation and how much will it cost?

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World’s Biggest Floating Offshore Wind Farm Is Powering Oil & Gas Platforms In The North Sea

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 17:30:31 +0000

floating offshore wind turbines EquinorFloating offshore wind turbines raise the stakes for nuclear energy stakeholders, with shorter construction time from start to finish.

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Decarbonizing Industrial Heat Faces Cognitive, Capex, Opex, & Disruptive Technology Challenges

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:00:30 +0000

Sexy / Unsexy, Practical / Impractical quadrant chart for residential, commercial and industrial heat sources by Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist, TFIE Strategy Inc.There is insufficient attention paid to industrial heat decarbonization due to discontinuous technologies, contextual problems, and current economics.

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How Does Russia Keep Signing Nuclear Power Contracts?

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 17:16:53 +0000

Map of RussiaRussia’s ability to keep signing nuclear contracts in the midst of massive sanctions over its illegal invasion of Ukraine is a complicated story. I certainly wouldn’t be signing contracts for energy with Russia right now.

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New US Hydrogen Strategy: Wrong Department, Wrong Authors

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:26:26 +0000

Hydrogen demand projection through 2100The 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.

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