Theoretically impossible? No. Totally unfeasible? Only if you object to paying $200,000 for a loaf of bread.
Tag: Windfuels
A Low-Carbon Future
A client asked me to read this report from mega-consulting form McKinsey, concerning pathways by which the four top CO2-emitting commodity-producing industries (ammonia, cement, ethylene and steel) can move to a low-carbon future. Here are a few comments:
How Not To Learn About Synthetic Fuels
Here’s a video on synthetic fuels. This is an important topic for people to understand, but this particular presentation contains so many misleading claims, that it does more to confuse and misinform the viewer than to elucidate the subject.
Tagged with: carbon-neutral fuel, clean energy investment opportunities, combined cycle gas turbines, electrolyzing water, Fischer Tropsch technology, oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter, recycling carbon from the atmosphere, synthetic diesel, synthetic fuels, The Big Bang--The Origin of All Energy on Planet Earth, Windfuels
Discussion on Energy Storage
A reader on Quora.com asks: When electricity is generated at a plant, is it stored and then distributed to the citizens? Can electricity be stored at such a large scale? How efficient is the storage process? A wonderful and comprehensive …
Covering the Subject of Synthetic Fuels for "The Hedge Connection"
Here’s another monthly installment that I write for The Hedge Connection, where, in this case, I present a short introduction to the subject of synthetic fuels as a viable method of energy storage. I begin with a reminder to Hedge …
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Capturing Carbon in Useful Products
A very bright reader “BreathOnTheWind” (love the name!) comments on my post on carbon sequestration: Somewhere deep in the core of my being I feel that the answer for carbon must be to find a use for it. If carbon …
Graphs Show Falling Pricing for Solar PV, Wind
Peter Buck sent me another article just now, accompanied by a few words: Here’s another article (which I coincidentally also found yesterday). This one includes graphs that seem to show that onshore wind prices aren’t falling very much but are …
Synthetic Fuels vs. Biofuels
It’s good to see progress being made in biofuels, in particular, feedstock that grows well in the desert, irrigated with salt water. According to this article, Boeing and research partners in the United Arab Emirates have made some considerable breakthroughs …
What’s the Future for Synthetic Fuels?
Wondering about the validity of synthetic fuels? I’m talking about liquid hydrocarbon fuels created from hydrogen (from electrolyzed water) plus carbon (from point sources of CO2 ) plus excess energy from off-peak wind (or off-peak anything else). I know you’ll …
Note on Synthetic and Biofuels
I just published a short post on the article: U.S. Air Force Report to Congress Bashes Navy’s Biofuels Program in which I mentioned that I find the people who presume to tell the U.S. Navy how it should be planning to defend our …
