Mine Numbers Collapse by 2040 by 70%
With the exit of coal mines, use of green hydrogen and renewable energy for steel making, and full deployment will the number of mines crash?
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Uranium Mining for Nuclear Power
Uranium mining for nuclear power and for nuclear weapons continues to have geopolitical implications along with the energy needed to refine the uranium to be used. there are 15 nuclear myths including SMR, waste, and subsidies. The availability of uranium drives the future of the nuclear energy industry;
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Lithium From Seawater Demonstrated
Direct lithium extraction is used in land based brines by a number of companies, but the vision is that the ocean has huge quantities, or could be extracted as part of desalination.
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Coal Plants Are Increasing Globally is False Information
Coal plants are decreasing globally but that does not stop the false information that coal plants are increasing. The number of retirements is greater than new plants. For a full detailed analysis check out Global Energy Monitor.
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Life Cycle Analysis of Nuclear
Nuclear is often touted as clean but published studies show that it is worse than wind and can be as high as gas.
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Life Cycle Analysis for Solar Panels and Inverters
Life cycle analysis shows solar panels and inveerters recover the embedded carbon in less than 11 months, or even more for the latest panels. Published by Fraunhofer and demonstrating solar systems are positive for up to 40 years.
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Batteries for Electrification is 300TWh According to Elon Musk
The total battery capacity for grid home and transportation is about 300TWh of batteries. This will take 10 years of manufacturing and ongoing of about 30TWh per year. Tesla aims to provide 10% of that battery capacity.
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Top 2 EV Batteries Globally
CATL announcement of their Qilin battery pack to be in production by 2023 exceeds Tesla’s 4680 battery and both exceed all other global batteries
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AI Economic Improvement In Knowledge Workers
AI is expected to lift knowledge worker productivity by 140% by 2030. AI training has decreased by over 65% per year since 2015 and models which cost $5m now would cost $500 by 2030.
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Electric Boats Are Slowly Coming to Market
Electri motors make sense for propulsion on the water – and Torqueedo is the global leader in electric boats. Battery weight and energy storage has limited the more widespread adoption, but with major personal sportscraft Bombideer bringing out models by 2026 expect to see more
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Electrical Management Systems Key to Efficiency
Electrical management systems have evolved from their large diesel engine power plant buinsess. They have flexible energ
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Low Cost Solar With Thin Film
Thin film solar ought to be a third of the cost of conventional PV panels and as low as 5 to 7 cents per Watt. 20 years in development and recently invested in by FFI from Fortescue Minerals Group.
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Hydrogen Battery Storage
The cost of hydrogen is a key metric if hydrogen can be used as long term storage in the energy supply mix to overcome long durations of lack of sun or wind for renewable energy generation
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Wind Turbines Kill Birds – Fact or Fiction
Wind turbines do kill birds but are not the bird shredders especailly of rare birds such as raptors (eagles, kites). Painting one of the blades black reduced raptor / eagle deaths by over 70%.
Feral cats remain the most lethal risk to birds.
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Mines To Reduce 80 Percent
A major global disruption will be the exit of coal from thermal electricity generations. Much coal is consumed within the country, but the 6 major exporters of coal will be impacted the most. New mines will not replace the loss of existing coal mines.
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EU Bans ICE Vehicles by 2035
The EU commission has voted to ban sales of all internal Combustion engines in cars buses trucks motorcycles by 2035 to achieve the carbon emissions reduction by 55% by 2030 from 1990 levels.
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EV Startups going Broke
Tesla and Ford are the only 2 american car companies that have not gone bankrupt. A number of aspiring EV companies at high financial risk as they move from protoptype to production hell.
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China Renewable Energy Plan
China has invested heavily in coal for electricity over the past 30 years but has made the switch to renewable energy and targets all new energy from renewable sources by 2025 and net zero by 2060.
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Nuclear Power Subsidies are Huge
Nuclear power is subsidized in most countries by billions of dollars, and ultimately consumers pay for this in small amounts in their power bills. All countries pay nuclear subsidies, often due to the use of nuclear power to create their own nuclear weapons.
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Food and Agriculture Disruption by Fermentation
Precision fermentation will see a collapse in the existing farming systems. With protein and fat made in fermentation vats, 90% of agriculture will cease. Regeneis of the vast areas of agriculture can regenerate.
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