chemical industry
5 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 24, 2022 by Rebecca Dell · across every show →
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Jan 24, 2022 bearish
Jan 24, 2022 neutral
Dell: Commercial Electric Crackers Do Not Exist Due to High Electricity Costs
“Nobody's bothered to commercialize a Electric cracker because right now electricity is way more expensive, and so it wouldn't be cost effective even if it worked. And there are, like, while the process technologies exist, they are not mature because nobody's e…”
Jan 24, 2022
Dell: Seven Precursor Chemicals Account for 75% of Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions
“Seven chemicals in Gets you three quarters of the greenhouse gas emissions. And so, sure, there's a lot of other, a lot of things, a lot of products, a lot of things that the chemical industry does, but if we can make substantial progress on seven chemicals, t…”
Jan 24, 2022 neutral
Dell: 60% of Chemical Fossil Inputs Become Products, Not Atmospheric Emissions
“We're only burning about 40% of it for energy. The other 60% of it, we're actually converting into the products themselves. So plastics are carbon-based chemicals. Where do we get all those carbon atoms? We get them from the fossil fuel inputs. And so this is …”
Jan 24, 2022 bearish
Replacing Chemical Feedstocks Requires Half of the Global Sustainable Biomass Supply
“Currently the chemical industry uses something like 30 exajoules of energy, of fossil energy, for feedstocks, just for feedstocks. And the International Energy Agency estimates that the total amount of biomass available for use for energy everywhere on Earth i…”