Well done privately-owned UK business, Steel Processing (Midlands) Ltd, which has contracted for a quarter of its supplies to be 'green steel' from H2 Green Steel Sweden
You can see the economy changing faster than politicians think
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Researcher and writer on the energy transition. Occasional investor in low carbon businesses. @ChrisGoodall@mastodon.energy
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UK infrastructure improvements to allow near 100% renewables may cost as much as the windfarms and solar parks themselves. One conclusion from my note on last week's CCC report
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From today's CCC report. An issue around the world and in my opinion the no. 1 barrier to rapid electrification.
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Last week the UK's Royal Society published a report on decarbonising aviation. I try to put it into context, and point out what I see as errors.
Interesting innovation in carbon capture. Heirloom in US is Direct Air Capture specialist. A batch of its CO2 was used by CarbonCure for injection into drying concrete for permanent storage. heirloomcarbon.com/news/co2-remov. Now all we need is cement manufacture itself to become net zero.
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World's biggest blue hydrogen project. About 2.4 million tonnes, decarbonising over 3% of world hydrogen. blog.topsoe.com/exxonmobil-to-. Interesting that it is for Exxon, the world's most recalcitrant decarboniser.
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Looks to me that methanol now clearly the choice of the shipping industry for a low carbon fuel. S Korean carrier HMM (9th largest) has ordered 9 small container ships and says it has green fuel supplies. It joins leaders Maersk and CMA in backing methanol dual fuel and not NH3.
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Why Exxon's withdrawal from algae fuels should surprise no-one.
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Oh, sorry, I meant to point you all towards @ChrisGoodall2's blog, which has a load of useful extra info on the story.
Here you go:
carboncommentary.com/blog/2018/10/2
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Is the hydrogen boom really going to happen? Probably yes. Here's another landmark: one of the first few full scale green ammonia projects. Less than 1% of Chinese production but still replaces 2m tonnes Co2 from coal.
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Botley West PV farm would be biggest in Europe at 840MW. But it is planned for green belt land near Oxford. I argue that greens should negotiate for the best deal and welcome the scheme.
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Why hydrogen may dominate electricity storage. South Australia's plan for a power to gas to power plant.
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Another 6 months delay for the new EPR at Flamanville, and a further 4% rise in cost to over €13bn. More problems in re-soldering pipework. Project is now over 10 years late and will cost four times what was initially expected.
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The UK government’s support for new coking coal mining: ‘Chasing the next thing that is going to die.’
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The UK govt's permission for a new coal mine was based on assuming that the EU steel industry would continue to use coal for ever. From public European data, I try to show that steel is transitioning to hydrogen and electricity faster than any other sector.carboncommentary.com/blog/2022/12/1
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Thank you to Switchee for the fantastic data made available for this analysis.
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In his latest #data-led article, @ChrisGoodall2 uses Switchee #insights to forecast that 30% of #SocialHousing will inadequately heated this winter.
Read the full article: bit.ly/3Uw3CKd
#UKHousing #FuelPoverty
Read the full article: bit.ly/3Uw3CKd
#UKHousing #FuelPoverty
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The Gorgon CO2 capture project in Australia should make everybody worried about the viability of this approach to carbon capture.
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To people promoting that we exclusively electrify heat to decarbonise: I am seeing more and more tweets slamming hydrogen, but none answering the barriers to pure electrification. Please could you offer some realistic, meaningful and non-dismissive answers to these questions? 🧵
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N.American and European venture capital funding for climate tech was 19% of ALL global VC investment in Q3 2022. Up from less than 10% a year ago. netzeroinsights.com/wp-content/upl
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Data from Switchee shows that 14% households in UK social housing are holding thermostats below 18 degrees, compared to just 3% in 2021. In north UK, figure is almost 19%. Less than 18 degrees means increased risk of ill health and also mold in property.
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At current prices, the value of gas imports avoided by switching a hectare from wheat to solar is 33 times the cost of the extra wheat that will need to be imported.
My note on the economic impact of banning most large solar developments :
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If the proposal to exclude England grade 3b agricultural areas from solar development goes through, the only places which ground PV will be possible will be the yellow and light brown areas. And most of them are national parks, upland areas, river valleys or forests.
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Energy crisis? What energy crisis? The UK appears to have installed precisely zero solar PV above 50 kW in the past year.
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As I said many times before: banning private jets is a wasted opportunity to get those most able to afford it to spearhead investment into low carbon aviation.
Better to mandate private jets run on carbon neutral fuels.
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Where in Europe are new climate technology companies concentrated? A look at a database with 23,000 startups listed shows that the answer is in the Nordics and Estonia. See the numbers at carboncommentary.com/blog/2022/8/12.
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We see reports of 'food rotting in fields' due to the worker shortage in UK. We also know food banks face rising need. Anybody aware of any farmer needing volunteer labour within 50 km of Oxford? Will happily arrange a gang to pick for food banks + make small payment to farmer.
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I believe that adjusting the boiler's power settings to a size appropriate to the house's heat demand would also reduce costs. Simple to do by skilled technician. Most boilers are too large for house. (Separate to flow temperature settings).
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I estimate reducing heating "flow temperature" & turning off hot water "pre-heating" could save UK homes up to £4bn, cut demand for gas equiv to 80% of imports from Russia last year, and saving CO2 equiv taking 3m cars off the roads. A win-win-win-win.
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May also be worth noting that the average NL house is almost as badly insulated as those in the UK. Suggests that heat pumps work, even in leaky houses.
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BREAKING: The Dutch heat pump market grew by a factor of close to 500% over just three years. twitter.com/burger_jaap/st…
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Just back from a neighbourhood group evening talk by taking roughly his stance in profilebooks.com/work/what-we-n
It was superb. Great assessment of what technology can do to help, and what we can and must do.
Where's the political will, though? Market can't do it all.
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Here's an example of some real ambition. Denmark just said it wants solar and onshore wind to provide four times as much energy by 2030 as they do now. And massive growth in offshore wind. 100% green gas by the end of the decade.
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Today's white paper has little about efficiency except to say: 'this is not being imposed on people and is a gradual transition following the grain of behaviour'. Understanding the vital role of efficiency in improving security, reducing bills and saving CO2 has gone backwards.
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Exactly 10 years ago, a very similar UK government energy paper said as below.
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Good news. CO2 air capture leader Climeworks has raised another $650m. Enough to finance the building of a 40kt/year plant. After years asking why Climeworks isn't growing faster, we can hope for rapid development. And, yes, DAC must work alongside CO2 cuts, not instead of them.
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The exact numbers are disputed but plant-based meats have carbon footprints very much larger than the original plants. And they are highly processed foods, at least at this stage in the industry's development, which is perhaps why the global food manufacturers are so interested.
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Should we welcome the growing interest in replacements for meat? Nutrition, carbon, water and flavour – @ChrisGoodall2 looks into how plant-based meat alternative stack up against meat and plants.
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Should we welcome the growing interest in replacements for meat? Nutrition, carbon, water and flavour – looks into how plant-based meat alternative stack up against meat and plants.
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A reception centre for Ukrainians outside the station in Cologne, a civilised place.
This short explainer on the use of (green) hydrogen for energy storage in our energy transition made sense to me. Thanks for explaining things in plain English!
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I wouldn't have guessed this. The glue used to make IKEA furniture has twice the carbon footprint of running the global stores. gbl-sc9u2-prd-cdn.azureedge.net/-/media/abouti
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A leading 'dry bulk' shipping company has said that for climate reasons it will no longer transport coal. A first?
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Heat pumps are useless in cold weather. OK if you live in a well insulated flat, but no good for a 3 bed terraced house.
How do I know? I install them! (In France).
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The objective of electrifying the UK's domestic heating is a good one. But with the current poorly-insulated state of the housing stock, heat pumps are often going to be very costly to operate and ineffective. Insulation must come first. Comment on my web site today.
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