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Frank Roche
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Amateur pol Engineer and hubbo
It might, can’t make an omelette….
April 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Have a look at services, US has a $120bn trade surplus with the EU there. Aggregate difference is $50bn in $1.6tn

Tax the texh bros.
April 1, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Spanish did it fairly sensibly
March 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Brighton calling (thanks for the 3 points ;-) )
November 16, 2024 at 10:23 AM
You are tight about that, basic thermodynamics says you never get 100% recovery
October 6, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Storage. The hope is that you can store energy more densely so power big things that need range like trucks and ships.

Also hydrogen is a potential imtermittency fix. Make hydrogen when the sun shines (or wind blows).
October 6, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Or we could get the demand side going by making blue hydrogen (from natural gas) and sequestering the resulting carbon dioxide by CCS.

There is a danger in green politics that the unarguable need to decarbonise to lever in other political objectives to the detriment of making progress
October 6, 2024 at 7:40 AM


Then there is the question of how to build a hydrogen economy (green steel, fuel cell powered ships....)

We are trying to scale up green hydrogen generation (electrolysis of water) but that technology is not available today. We could wait to start developing hydrogen driven applications
October 6, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Whatever you think about Starmer CCS is probably an essential technology.

First cement making in which limestone is converted to lime (CaCO3->CaO+CO2) inherently releases CO2 ( and uses a lotbof energy to run the ovens which do this). Cement making is 5%+ of total global CO2 production.
October 6, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Whatever you think about Starmer CCS is probably an essential technology.

First cement making in which limestone is converted to lime (CaCO3->CaO+CO2) inherently releases CO2 ( and uses a lotbof energy to run the ovens which do this). Cement making is 5%+ of total global CO2
October 6, 2024 at 7:36 AM
CCS is an essential technology for someone processes (Cement making which converts limestone (calcium carbonate) into lime (calcium oxide) in an oven
October 6, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Them not succumbing to typhoid or ccholera does help in extracting the last pemmy of supplementary value.
August 23, 2024 at 2:49 PM
Oh no
August 17, 2024 at 8:55 AM