Industrial Heat
topic on 2 shows · 13 statements across 6 episodes
13 statements about Industrial Heat, every show
O'Donnell: Industrial heat accounts for a quarter of global fuel consumption
“A quarter of all the fuel we burn in the world is for industrial heat.”
O'Donnell: Over half of global industrial heat is delivered as steam
“A little more than half of all the world's industrial heat is delivered as steam because steam is wonderful, energy-dense, easy to move around.”
Woolard: Solar thermal will likely only survive in industrial heat applications
“That's not to say somebody can't find a new design and a new application for industrial heat or something in the future, but it's likely to emerge, if at all, as a niche where you have strong sun, strong DNI, and some reason to have heat rather than just elect…”
O'Donnell: Industrial heat consumes 25% of global fossil fuels
“It's a quarter of all the coal, oil, and natural gas that we burn in the world is for industrial heat.”
O'Donnell: Steam boilers represent over 80% of US industrial heat
“The race to scale is boilers everywhere. Just go replace that. That's something like 80% of industrial heat. It's more than that in the United States.”
O'Donnell: Path is clear to decarbonize industrial heat within 15 years
“We see the path clear with what we're doing to decarbonize most of that within about 15 years, given the constraints on how fast wind and solar can be built, and there aren't meaningful production constraints on the brick materials that we use.”
Aggarwal: 50% to 70% of industrial heat can be electrified today
“About 50 to 70% of all the heat used in the industrial sector right now could be electrified with commercially available technologies.”
Kann: Industrial heat generates 25% of global emissions, surpassing transportation
“Industrial heat is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the world. Full stop. I will pause there. It is responsible for more emissions annually than all transportation globally put together. About 25% of all of our emissions come from burni…”
O'Donnell: Replacing 2019 industrial heat requires 10,600 gigawatts of renewables
“If we do a units conversion and ask ourselves, we want to repower that with renewables, it's about 10,600 gigawatts of renewables, wind and solar with typical capacity factors, needed to replace that fuel consumption.”
O'Donnell: Roughly 80% of industrial heat is below 350 degrees Celsius
“Something like 80% of industrial heat is in the low to mid mid range temperatures below about 350 C.”
O'Donnell: Most industrial heat up to 600°C is moved as steam
“Up to about 600, the vast majority of heat is moved around as steam.”
O'Donnell: No business case for thermal storage beyond 20 hours
“And that says that we don't see a business reason for very, for storage beyond about 20 hours of storage. That if you have about 20 hours of storage, You know, there's going to be about 10 or 12% of annual energy that you're going to get from something else.”
Kann: Storing electricity as industrial heat may be more valuable than grid storage
“So actually being able to store, you know, clean, cheap electricity as heat and then deliver it as heat may have as much, if not more value than turning that heat back into electricity to put it back on the grid. So specifically for the industrial heat applica…”