Posts
Non-critical minerals are critical
Europe has built four sophisticated policy instruments for its industrial future. None of them cover the foundational mineral layer that every industrial process depends on. This is not an oversight; it's the logical endpoint of an idea that started at the end of the Cold War.
Risks of financial derisking
Europe's industrial strategy depends on financing infrastructure that existing risk models weren't designed to price, so interest rates keep climbing.
Scaling CO₂ economies via ports
Fragmented CO₂ transport infrastructure promotes siloed thinking and duplicate assets across Europe, just like the LNG industry wasted billions until it found out that hubs are the way out.
Naval messages from Charles de Gaulle
A family collection of 1940 naval documents: de Gaulle's ultimatums during the Dakar operation, tactical dispatches, and combat logs from two theatres of the same war.
Land development for CO₂ hubs
CCS roadmaps treat land development as a checkbox between select technology and begin construction. Three centuries of industrial history say that's how projects die.
Carbon capture technologies
Technical overview of the five main carbon capture methods (their integration constraints, industry fits, and commercial readiness) with a solution provider snapshot.
Multi-fuel ships for CCS
Fossil-fueled ships are quietly gutting CCS budgets with EU ETS fees and lost credits, but multi-fuel vessels can bridge the transition into green shipping to remove the losses.
My first camera's industrial spark
How two grandfathers (an engineer who built nuclear plants and a pensioner who photographed church archives) taught me that a camera is the minimum viable record of things worth preserving.
Carbon transport & storage
Introduction to the infrastructure needed to develop a functional carbon transport and storage networks for port officials and industrial emitters implementing CCS.