Yes the pitiful Thyssenkrupp are working with BP down the hydrogen reduction route https://globuc.com/news/bp-partners-with-thyssenkrupp-steel-to-decarbonise-industry/ but they are not leading the field. Given TK's usual slowness of foot and BP's strong focus on selling fossil fuels I doubt I will see their solution in my lifetime.
Luckily two other companies are either building hydrogen reduction green steel plants or are adapting existing ones and are building the turbines to support them.
Long experience of trying to work with TK has taught me to expect nothing and you will be satisfied
picked some more up, never going to get exciting but...
Ah here it is
https://geoff.greer.fm/2023/02/08/gasoline-car-review/
Nice piece in the Economist on an alternative way to decarbonise steel https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/02/15/a-new-way-to-clean-up-the-steel-industry
I received a little story, yesterday, from a writer claiming to have only driven electric cars , trying to explain to a child what a petrol car was. Very funny, the best parts included, why you need a gear box and why you needed to leave home to fuel up. Basically the technology is s@@t at the best of times. I'll not post it just let you find it one day.
UK governments used to like to leap in to support old technology which employed lots of people...
having had their fingers burnt
They avoid leaping into support new technology which will employ lots of people
all those history, philosophy and english degrees going to waste
IMO ITM had a great development CEO, but we have moved out of development. The Chair needs to consider his future after failing to spot this three years ago.
I suspect they are holding off waiting for free government cash to switch. First mover gets all the costs, all the problems and misses out on cash
still a confused message but a good version of clarity
https://reneweconomy.com.au/eu-says-renewable-hydrogen-valid-only-for-electrolysers-linked-to-new-wind-and-solar/
I doubt it. The LSE is already enough of a disaster without out more "help" from a government if whatever persuasion.
low carbon hydrogen....
so they had the chance to go green and chose not to. Ineos continues to be a blight on the planet. See also their cycling team, their racing boat etc etc
I think David Kurten is an anti-vaxer, but I could be wrong
good to see my questions answered.
No evidence that ITM will get any orders from this work.
I honestly think JCB failed to use the correct technology for this and are looking after their company's capital rather than seeing the benefit of fuelcells
got to fill webpages
probably mean "soar"
The weasel words "clean hydrogen"
I suspect it is more to do with what local legislation defines as the route to net zero. In the US that embraces blue, while I forget what Brussels finally decided.
Linde (tax havened in Dublin) ( HQued in UK), (heart in Germany), (active independently around the world) will do what they can to make a buck/yen/euro.
Exxon claim to have done more CSS than anyone else. No evidence that CO2 has not escaped. No warranty. I see the Norwegians backing off CSS to support the UK's stupid northern midland H2 experiment is evidence that blue technology has no rigorous absolute confidence.
I've owned Linde in the past and they have always underperformed against their competitors and the whole sector is very poor on SP improvement. I worked in it for a time and they certainly have the technology but they are very big-corporate comfortable.
yes, vital to get some level of control over Engineering. I've been in this situation where Engineering were in charge. They set the Bill of Materials, they controlled Engineering change and they run purchasing. When I turned up the place was a nightmare with designs changing during production.. We had to redesign the BOM structure so the buyers could buy sensibly and factory could assemble sensibly while we accelerated manufacture to produce very complicated items (20,000 components) in 8 hours.
It wasn't that Engineering were stupid they just didn't realise the results of what they did and how manufacture was slowed down by it. The cry of "oh but the customer wants a slightly longer one" still ring in my ears.