Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 17:35:32 +0000
Nuclear for commercial ships is so obviously flawed from a business perspective that I didn’t even bother to include it in my quadrant chart of sexy vs impractical maritime decarbonization technologies.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 23:35:51 +0000
Wind and solar are a fool’s game says Bryan Leyland of New Zealand. He has some interesting theories about sustainable energy.
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 17:35:09 +0000
A new Brookings Paper on Economic Activity had an original goal to quantify the economic impacts of the IRA provisions. They determined that, yes, the IRA provisions would reduce carbon emissions significantly. But that’s not all. These provisions would also cost more than the current government projections that are floating around.
Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 22:51:09 +0000
Since 2007, the use of coal for electricity generation has generally been in decline, while the use of renewables has been on the rise. Electricity generation from nuclear had remained relatively flat over the last two decades but has experienced a slight decline in recent years. In 2022, net generation of electricity from renewables reached […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2023 19:25:22 +0000
Recently, the new coalition government of the Netherlands looked across its decarbonization portfolio, realized that it had failed to meet renewables targets, and so announced that it would build two nuclear power reactors with 1-1.6 GW capacity each. And the government is claiming that it will have them running in 2035, but has only outlined […]
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.
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: 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: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:25:48 +0000
Electrification and heat pumps radically reduce the requirement to build new wind, solar, nuclear, hydro, and geothermal primary energy sources.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:35:33 +0000
In February, Nine Mile Point nuclear power station in upstate New York started making its own hydrogen. Normally, this would be the point where I’d do the math and explain why this is a terrible idea, but in this case they got it right. So, what are they doing and why? The Nine Mile Point […]