The Ledger

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Assertion Supported
Stark: Fuel accounts for 70% to 90% of boiler operational costs
“Once you look at the twenty-year life cycle of a boiler, or, you know, sometimes we're out in the field and we see 30, 40, fifty-year-old boilers, it's really about the opex, the fuel, and the maintenance, but fuel itself can be 70 to 90% Of that OpEx itself. …”
Addison Stark Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 11:00 The story of steam
Assertion Partly supported
Stark: Electric boilers grow at 26% annually within $17B boiler market
“And while the total penetration in the market is relatively small, maybe about one to two percent of the boiler market today, it's the fastest growing subsector in the boiler market. So if you look at the growth of the boiler market It's about a seventeen bill…”
Addison Stark Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 16:03 The story of steam
Assertion Supported
Stark: 65% of US Manufacturing Plants Have Thermal Loads Under 10MW
“The reality is, when you look at manufacturing in the U.S., 65% of manufacturing facilities have a thermal load below 10 megawatts”
Addison Stark Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 30:05 The story of steam
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Stark: European Natural Gas Prices Are Now Pegged to Global LNG
“No longer do you have a ready and plentiful access to pipeline gas coming in from Russia. So now in Europe, natural gas prices are much more closely pegged to global LNG imports into Europe, and that has changed the spark spread there and the equation there.”
Addison Stark Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 30:29 The story of steam
Assertion Supported
Stark: Most industrial steam heat delivery uses saturated steam
“So, you know, the majority of heat delivery that's done by steam is all through saturated, and that's what boilers deliver today.”
Addison Stark Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 7:25 The story of steam
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