Tag: Green Economy
Boston Metal’s Current Evidence Points To Critical Metals, Not Green Steel
Boston Metal’s public story has shifted in a way that makes the company more credible in the near term, but less sweeping as a green-steel story. The company is still built around molten oxide electrolysis, or MOE, an electrically driven process for reducing metal oxides without coal. The near-term commercial … [continued]
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Is AI Doomed To Fail?
In 1995, computer scientist Niklaus Wirth published the article “A Plea for Lean Software” in the magazine Computer. Its thesis seems to suggest that AI based on neural networks may be doomed to fail, not because of a lack of electrical energy, but because of software inefficiency. The experience of … [continued]
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Climate Solutions Need To Pass Three Tests Before They Deserve Policy Or Capital
A lot of transition analysis gives too much credit to technologies that can be made to work and not enough scrutiny to whether they matter. The difference shows up across carbon capture hubs, synthetic fuel claims, small modular reactor schedules, cement decarbonization pathways, aviation fuel projections, ammonia shipping forecasts, grid … [continued]
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Molecules Do Not Disappear. Their Market Shrinks.
A lot of energy-transition arguments begin with today’s fossil fuel demand. Coal, oil, and gas still dominate global primary energy, so it is tempting to draw a straight line from the current fuel system to a future molecule system. Replace natural gas with hydrogen. Replace bunker fuel with ammonia or … [continued]
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Self-Own #837: High Tech Hydropower Transmission Trips Up Trump’s Fossil Fuel Fantasy
Hitachi Energy’s new HVDC Light® technology is at work behind the scenes of a massive new hydropower transmission line connecting New York City to Canada.
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