Articles and blog posts to do with Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions. Describes the types of technology available, and how these programs may affect the process industries.
Although Net Zero goals are commendable and deserve our support it is vital that they be evaluated realistically. This article is one in a series to do with difficulties that might be encountered as companies implement these programs. Other articles on this theme are:
This is the third post in the series ‘The Shape of Net Zero’.
Shown below is a summary of the post Industry Leadership.
In September 2020 the company BP published their 2020 Energy Outlook. The report's Summary states,
The Energy Outlook explores the forces shaping the global energy transition out to 2050 and the key uncertainties surrounding that transition.
The good old days
This post is the second in the series ‘The Shape of Net Zero’. The series is based on an understanding that we cannot simply switch out one source of energy (fossil fuels) with another (wind, solar, nuclear and others) and carry on with Business as Usual. We need to consider the following parameters to do with a switch in the basics of our energy supply.
A theme of the posts at this site is that we are awash in good ideas, but many of these good ideas cannot be scaled up quickly enough to have a meaningful impact on the climate crisis. This post — Realities: Nuclear Power — illustrates this conundrum. Nuclear power is an established energy source. It has its detractors, but it is established and known to work.
he following material is extracted from the post What To Do?
This article provides an introduction to the concept of Net Zero by 2050, and how it could affect the energy and process industries.
The phrase ‘Net Zero by 2050’ comes from a report published by the IPCC — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC is one of the world’s leading authorities on climate change trends.
The following is taken from the post Net Zero Gradients.
On Tuesday of this week we learned that the ExxonMobil company has adopted Net Zero goals.
This article is based on the post Wanted: Imagination.
Following the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers the New York Times journalist Tom Friedman said that our failure was not lack of knowledge (we knew quite a lot about terrorist organizations). Our failure was lack of imagination — we simply could not imagine that people would voluntarily fly a commercial airplane directly into a building.