DISCOVERING TRUTHS

Chapter 1. Problem Statement: Meeting Explosive Electricity Demand While Achieving Sustainability  In recent years, the industrial structure of advanced economies has been reorganizing around electricity. Hyperscale data centers for training and running artificial intelligence (AI) models, advanced semiconductor fabs, electrification of transport through electric vehicles, and the expansion of electricity-based industrial processes are all pushing power demand to unprecedente

Scale-up, risk, and system inertia  We already knew enough “decent technology.” No sooner had the fire risk of lithium-ion batteries been raised than an announcement of a breakthrough in research on an all-solid-state battery was made. In a similar case, solar and wind power sources have been among the most prominent alternatives to existing fossil-fuel power plants across recent years. Nevertheless, those sources still accounted for approximately 15% of the global energy sup

A threshold temperature of 700 °C is required for operating the catalyst once applied to Steam Methane Reforming (SMR) and Autothermal Reforming (ATR) for converting methane gas to hydrogen gas. There is a severe drawback to increasing by 700 °C, beyond the additional energy required. In this blog post, I will outline possible reasons we should use low-temperature catalysts from an engineering perspective.  1. Increasing the amount of energy/heat loss:  According to the Stefa