Tony Griffiths
4th Time Lucky for CCS?
Last week I attended the UK Carbon Capture & Storage's Research Centre (UKCCSRC) Spring Conference. Trying to 'make sense' of UK CCS is...
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emmanuel1943
- Mar 28
- 5 min
Evaluating Energy Transition projects: Financial v/s Economical modelling.
Introduction Energy Transition projects just like other capital Investment projects must be appraised and evaluated to determine their...
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Tony Griffiths
- Mar 6
- 6 min
The Nuclear Option
Nuclear power is back in the news again this week, but not for the right reasons. Britain has been producing (mostly-)safe low-carbon...
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Tony Griffiths
- Mar 3
- 1 min
The Power of the Wind
With the wind blowing hard in the UK towards the last week of February - when three named storms (Storms Dudley, Eunice and Frank) came...
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Tony Griffiths
- Dec 11, 2021
- 7 min
The Tide is Turning in Holyhead
Some of us read with excitement yesterday the news that - after almost 10 years of patient pre-development buildup - Menter Môn received...
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maxim
- Nov 8, 2021
- 5 min
Our Technology Stack
As a disclaimer, in this article, I will be talking about many technologies that could be unfamiliar to a reader with no relevant...
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simon45559
- Sep 6, 2021
- 5 min
Carbon Capture Options - By the Numbers
www.insyn.co.uk The UK produced around 326 million tons of CO2 in 2020, down from about 800 million tonnes in 1990 [1]. Cumulatively, the...
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simon45559
- Jun 21, 2021
- 6 min
What we stand for and what we do. Do you want to join us?
The last flight I took was a helicopter to an offshore oil and gas platform in the middle of the North Sea. One of the reasons for going...
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simon45559
- May 23, 2021
- 7 min
A Virtuous Energy Transition
As part of my MSc studies, I have read Benjamin Sovacool and Michael Dvorkin’s book Global Energy Justice, Problems Principles and...
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Tony Griffiths
- May 15, 2021
- 2 min
How Much Energy?
I was bad this morning: I failed to get out of bed for the Kew Gardens 10k run that we'd signed up for over six months ago. Rosie...
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simon45559
- Apr 29, 2021
- 7 min
What geology can tell us about climate change – Why we need to restore ecosystems.
One of the big problems we face is the destruction of carbon sinks through deforestation and other land use changes. At the moment, all...
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simon45559
- Apr 23, 2021
- 13 min
Electric vehicles - or something else?
‘If the electric vehicle only is a substitute for the current car and we continue with a car-dominated mobility system, the low carbon...
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Olwg Admin
- Apr 17, 2021
- 5 min
Getting to Grips with Units
We've had some interesting discussions recently as a result of getting tangled up with energy / engineering units commonly used by...
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Tony Griffiths
- Apr 11, 2021
- 9 min
A Lag in the System
The title above now has a twofold meaning: Initially it referred only to a simple bit of lagging in our domestic hot water system; but...
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simon45559
- Apr 2, 2021
- 9 min
Carbon transition: A microeconomic perspective.
The first thing to say, I am not an economist; in fact, I have only just started to learn about economics in my recent studies....
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simon45559
- Mar 13, 2021
- 12 min
The Economics of Hydrogen
Hydrogen is hot news right now, it seems almost everyone is interested in hydrogen, and there is no shortage of opinions on whether...
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simon45559
- Feb 23, 2021
- 3 min
Technology Is Not The Only Answer To The Puzzle of Decarbonisation
The energy transition is the innate desire to move from carbon-based energy to renewable or green energy. We might expect that ‘the...
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simon45559
- Feb 14, 2021
- 5 min
Please, No Stonings. Why We Should Not Demonize an Industry.
I was intrigued by a post on LinkedIn that referred to a quote by Elon Musk: I'm not in favour of demonizing the oil and gas industry....
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simon45559
- Feb 7, 2021
- 12 min
The Problem of Energy Access in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Tragedy of the Commons
If one ought to describe the global political economy—the 'who gets what when and how’—of energy in a single word, 'fragmentation' would...
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Tony Griffiths
- Feb 2, 2021
- 5 min
Out With The Old / In With the New
February suddenly arrived with a boom. We kicked off the morning with lots of "Pinch punch first of the month" around the house, and...
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