JP Morgan report 2021

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US: 60% of transport energy is passenger vehicles whereas for China its just 25%
Industry as an end user is massive in China
In 2020, China built over 3x as much new coal capacity as all other countries combined, equal to one large coal plant per week
Europe gas use in large part to imports from Russia, this has geo political issues. Theres a reduction in European production of oil and gas but an increase in imports.
Is it about electrifying industry or creating some renewable source that can produce large amounts of heat?

Education

Trinity, masters of energy science, applications close next week, 24/07/21 14:14:37
Utrecht, have two tracts which is interesting, applications for this year closed
Somewhere in switzerland either ETH or epfl, applications open next year
Oxford, ditto for applications but has the same cross school thing as trinity
Computational physics might also be an option if the above don’t work out. I might have a better chance of getting it.
I just need to get my foot in the door I think. To learn. Gather more data.

Whats the criteria for neglected?

BTU: British Thermal Unit, roughly equivalent to 1.05 KJ. More or less equal to burning a single wooden match from end-to-end. Raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit, jesus christ god dam Americans
Could computation help in discover for energy issues.
Pilot plants https://www.eib.org/en/stories/decarbonisation-technologies
Could I get involved in EU or Irish initiatives for energy
Energy Innovation (both invention and efficiency gains) requires adoption and dispersion
Even if we get nuclear fusion in the next ten years (as Altman predicts) will it be in time. Or is it impossible to predict how quickly adoption occurs
Is there anything I can actually do?
Marginal productivity depends on what I can offer? And to whom?
Making it easier to collect energy usage statistics? Through consumers? What benefit would that have… none
By all accounts I am not smart enough, nor do I work hard enough to offer anything. Why tf am I trying?
Ok, so is industrial decarbonisation neglected?
I think I’d like to be in a role where I can get answers to questions that are important. So that people (icnluding myself) could use those answers to do something. This is where writing, making a claim and then trying to figure it out comes in. Maybe thats the next step for me to develop insight.
- Maybe this is what I should be doing right now, not studying Physics
- How does one analysis scientific data
- What is good evidence
- Correlation vs causation
- All these tools I’m a rookie at.