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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Okay, please let me know on the following (note, this list is not comprehensive):
Solvents
Ink
Upholstery
Tires
Dresses / Clothes
Diesel fuel
Motor oil
Bearing grease
ballpoint pens
football / soccer cleats
boats
insecticides
floor wax / all wax
Putty
Curtains
vitamin capsules
dashboards
percolators
skis
car bodies
Faucet washers
food preservatives
fertilizers
antihistamines
cortisones
dyes
life jackets
tv cabinets
bags, golf bags, back packs
tool boxes / tool racks
anything plastic
petroleum jelly
antiseptics
sports balls
deodorant
rubbing alcohol
shag rugs
perfumes
shoe polish
transparent tape
clotheslines
soap
shoes
refrigerants
linings
paint
epoxy
car batteries
solar panels / windmills
mops
umbrellas
roofing
speakers
water pipes / piping
antifreeze
heart valves
enamel
candles
lotions
toothbrushes
crayons
pillows
awnings
sun glasses
parachutes
dishes
surf boards
eyeglasses
lipstick
insect repellant
telephones / cellphones
detergents
cameras
paint brushes / brushes
bandages
anesthetics
dentures
cold cream
fan belts
fridges / appliances
movie film
artificial turf
artificial limbs
contact lens
shaving cream
toothpaste
hair curlers
ammonia
methanol
gasoline
heating homes / commercial buildings / anything
drinking cups
pillows
there's more. Far more but this is a good list to start.
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I'll break the list down to make sense:
Petrochemical materials. We don't burn life jackets, ball point pens, or boats, so I'm not sure what your getting away unless you mean the emissions from petrochemical manufacturing and manufacturing goods. Direct electrification takes care of most, but hydrogen is more efficient for the processes that require a large amount of heat. There's not many companies in the space yet, largely because the space is dominated by O&G companies who produce the petroleum.
Diesel/gasoline: hundreds of companies working on this. Where electrification isn't possible, and substitute energy carriers aren't feasible, biodiesel already exists. I suspect there very few applications where electrification and hydrogen won't work, but there's companies all over the world (even in Alberta!) selling biodiesel
Buildings: This is a big one. Some of the most innovative companies are working on efficiency first. This is where the biggest gains are. Next is heat pumps. In the vast majority of populated areas, great pumps are more economical than NG furnaces. There's cold climate heat pumps that use a newer refrigerant to get much colder (below -30 in some cases) but due to low volumes so far the lack of scale makes them pretty expensive. This is why the government is offering incentives for heat pump installation. If the demand increases enough, the costs can come down. The most difficult part of this sector is you need billions of bespoke solutions. It won't be easy for sure
Ammonia/fertilizer: This one is straightforward but difficult. There are many, many companies working on this. At least hundreds, maybe thousands. Hundreds of billions of not trillions allocated here. Fertilizer is made from ammonia (70% of all ammonia uses), same ammonia is made from hydrogen. At this point, 98% of hydrogen is made from coal or natural gas (other 2% from renewables). The answer is both easy and hard. The easy answer is make all hydrogen from water with renewables using an electrolyzer. There are 2 big issues though. The first is that there's already not enough renewables yet and this adds further need. The second is bigger. Right now we move natural gas or coal to the fertilizer plant where they make the hydrogen and then the ammonia, which then becomes fertilizer. We do this because shipping hydrogen is insanely difficult and expensive and creates a lot of loss of hydrogen in the process. This means fertilizer plants will need to be located where the hydrolysis is going to happen, which in a lot of cases may mean moving facilities.
Did I miss anything?