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Author Archives: energyskeptic
Hydrocarbon liquids, drop-in fuels, oil refining, oil distribution, GTL, CTL
Notes from 41 page: National Petroleum Council. 2012. Chapter 11: Hydrocarbon Liquids. Hydrocarbon liquids have properties that make them high-quality transportation fuels and allow the supply chain to operate … Continue reading
Posted in Coal to Liquids (CTL), GTL Gas-To-Liquids, Oil
Tagged CTL, GTL, natural gas, oil, pipelines, refinery capacity
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Turlock AB 2514 California Energy Storage
Notes from 29 page: Turlock Irrigation district Energy Storage Study. 2014. Willie G. Manuel 9/17/2014 Recommendation. The analysis performed shows that the benefits of deploying various types of storage systems fall short of the capital cost of such systems. Furthermore, … Continue reading
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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology roadmap 2013 IEA
Notes from 63 page: IEA. 2013. Technology Roadmap Carbon capture and storage (CCS). International Energy Agency. A total cumulative mass of approximately 120 Gt CO2 would need to be captured and stored between 2015 and 2050, across all regions of … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon capture, CCS, coal
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Climate-water impacts on electricity sector capacity expansion NREL 2014
NREL. 2014. Modeling climate-water impacts on electricity sector capacity expansion. To be presented at the ASME 2014 Power Conference Baltimore, Maryland July 28–31, 2014. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. 12 pages. Excerpts follow: ABSTRACT Climate change has the potential to exacerbate … Continue reading
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Capacity value of solar is low as penetration increases which could suppress investment
Notes from 33 page: NREL. 2014. Representation of Solar Capacity Value in the ReEDS Capacity Expansion. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Technical Report NREL/TP-6A20-61182 March 2014 Comparison of Capacity Value at High Penetration. Several researchers have conducted modeling efforts to quantify … Continue reading
Posted in Renewable Integration, Solar
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The potential role of concentrating solar power
Preface. The word “water” appears nowhere in this document, even though that’s a major limiting factor for CSP with thermal storage. Dry cooling is possible, but it lowers the EROI and raises the already way-too-high capital cost. An electric grid … Continue reading
Posted in Concentrated Solar Power, Renewable Integration
Tagged concentrated solar power, CSP, electric grid, thermal energy storage
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Vernon VG&E AB 2514 Energy storage report
STAFF REPORT: VERNON GAS & ELECTRIC DEPARTMENT September 2, 2014 [some of the 25-page report is shown below as I attempted to get up to speed on energy storage. Since California is the first state to mandate this, and … Continue reading
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Stop wasting food
[Clearly at the point when food rationing begins due to limited amounts of transportation oil, not wasting food will be important, and composting can expected to be the main way of disposal since garbage trucks will run less frequently. Below … Continue reading
Expanding rail infrastructure to accommodate growth in agriculture and other sectors
Excerpts from 103 page: Keith, K. Jan 2013. Maintaining a track record of success. Expanding rail infrastructure to accommodate growth in agriculture and other sectors. TRC Consulting. [I’m working on a book about the distribution of food when declining oil … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, food, rail
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Reducing fuel consumption of medium & heavy-duty vehicles 2014 National Research Council
Look at the enormous waste of fuel when JIT supply chain trucks ramped up in the late 70s (page 63). Excerpts from the 117 page: NRC. 2014. Reducing the Fuel Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, … Continue reading
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