Paul Martin (Spitfire Research)
@spitfireresearch.bsky.social
Chemical engineer, scale-up specialist, antidote to marketing #hopium . Advocate for a decarbonized future. www.spitfireresearch.com for more details
Much better, and more likely to make money, if you do what Monolith is doing, and sell a valuable carbon product for $1/kg, than to bury it at any level of subsidy imaginable. And they're within 100 miles of 40% of ammonia users in the USA, so they have a market for their hydrogen already.
September 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Much better, and more likely to make money, if you do what Monolith is doing, and sell a valuable carbon product for $1/kg, than to bury it at any level of subsidy imaginable. And they're within 100 miles of 40% of ammonia users in the USA, so they have a market for their hydrogen already.
Methane pyrolysis is a carbon-producing technology. Make a valuable carbon product? Then you will make money, maybe- but the scale of your H2 production will be limited. Throw away your carbon into low value applications? You will not make money. www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrog...
Hydrogen by Methane Pyrolysis
TL&DR: many are pushing the idea of heating up methane until it falls apart into carbon and hydrogen. That can be a smart way to make valuable carbon products, but doing that isn't easy- and it will n...
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September 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Methane pyrolysis is a carbon-producing technology. Make a valuable carbon product? Then you will make money, maybe- but the scale of your H2 production will be limited. Throw away your carbon into low value applications? You will not make money. www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrog...
Sorry, that backward. 1.66x per unit mass, 2.4x per unit volume.
April 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Sorry, that backward. 1.66x per unit mass, 2.4x per unit volume.
Here's my opinion about one such pilot project already running in Ontario. Stupid, with stupid sauce. www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-m...
This is exactly the sort of stupidity that I'm constantly concerned about.… | Paul Martin | 35 comments
This is exactly the sort of stupidity that I'm constantly concerned about.
This is a fossil gas combined cycle power plant in Ontario. The "plan" is to make hydrogen using an electroly...
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April 4, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Here's my opinion about one such pilot project already running in Ontario. Stupid, with stupid sauce. www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-m...
Best to follow me on LinkedIn, that's where the series will be posted
March 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Best to follow me on LinkedIn, that's where the series will be posted
Yes, I did! It comes from a proto-Germanic word meaning "that which is given" in all three languages- it's just that the English are much more optimistic than the Germans and the Danes...
March 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Yes, I did! It comes from a proto-Germanic word meaning "that which is given" in all three languages- it's just that the English are much more optimistic than the Germans and the Danes...
Sadly, Canada's retail carbon tax + rebate program was poorly explained to the public. Rebates came by direct deposit and hence weren't noticed by rich people, who claimed they "never got a cheque"...yeah, great policy can be killed by something THAT stupid.
March 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Sadly, Canada's retail carbon tax + rebate program was poorly explained to the public. Rebates came by direct deposit and hence weren't noticed by rich people, who claimed they "never got a cheque"...yeah, great policy can be killed by something THAT stupid.
It's my attempt at Marvin the Paranoid Android. Brain the size of a planet, and they've got me lighting up toys...
March 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It's my attempt at Marvin the Paranoid Android. Brain the size of a planet, and they've got me lighting up toys...
I'm not getting you down, am I?
March 3, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I'm not getting you down, am I?
First past the post is a disaster. NDP got 2/3 of the votes the Libs got, but twice as many seats. Cons got 80 seats- Greens, in proportion to the popular vote, should have had 8, but got 2. This is a clown show, not an electoral process.
February 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
First past the post is a disaster. NDP got 2/3 of the votes the Libs got, but twice as many seats. Cons got 80 seats- Greens, in proportion to the popular vote, should have had 8, but got 2. This is a clown show, not an electoral process.
That room full of clowns being considered a "cabinet" is unbelievable.
February 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
That room full of clowns being considered a "cabinet" is unbelievable.