1, Methanol to kerosene. My guess is that the dominant fuels for shipping and aviation will be green methanol and kerosene respectively. I’ve assumed very different production processes for each fuel but this may be incorrect. Last week green methanol pioneer European Energy
WRT small modular nuclear reactors, Jigar Shah has made the perhaps-obvious-in-retrospect point that essential to cost reductions is *repeatability* (which enables learning), and that smallness / modularity are not the only path to repetition. From February:
"At Vogtle ... Unit 4 came in at a 30% discount to Unit 3. So if you just built Unit 4 again at Unit 5, right next door to Unit 4, it would come in at somewhere in the neighborhood of $130 a MWh, and you'd be able to do it in half the time. ... Because you have a trained workforce and all that stuff." [David Roberts:] You're confident in the learning curve if we standardize our design."
WRT small modular nuclear reactors, Jigar Shah has made the perhaps-obvious-in-retrospect point that essential to cost reductions is *repeatability* (which enables learning), and that smallness / modularity are not the only path to repetition. From February:
"At Vogtle ... Unit 4 came in at a 30% discount to Unit 3. So if you just built Unit 4 again at Unit 5, right next door to Unit 4, it would come in at somewhere in the neighborhood of $130 a MWh, and you'd be able to do it in half the time. ... Because you have a trained workforce and all that stuff." [David Roberts:] You're confident in the learning curve if we standardize our design."
https://www.volts.wtf/p/nuclear-perhaps