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Beyond Electrification:.Diverse Technological Pathways Required: Decarbonising these sectors demands a range of innovative technologies beyond simple electrification, such as sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) for aviation or carbon capture solutions for cement production, often requiring significant energy inputs.. 3.

Need for Integrated Systemic Solutions:.Investment tends to focus on individual technologies, but the podcast stresses the importance of understanding the ‘network value’ and integration of these solutions within a broader, complex industrial system, rather than viewing them in isolation.. 4.Governmental Intervention is Essential to Drive Change:.

The market alone is unlikely to deliver the necessary speed and scale of decarbonisation in these sectors.Mandates (‘sticks’), like those seen for SAF, and incentivisation (‘carrots’), such as carbon sequestration payments, are essential for stimulating investment and progress.. 5.

Re-evaluating Global Supply Chains for Carbon Footprint:.

The discussion highlights the impact of deep globalisation, where manufacturing has been exported, potentially shifting emissions rather than reducing them.These large, floating platforms are akin to what the oil and gas industries use today, and would enable us to achieve extremely low costs..

In essence, the proposed model here is the same as for repowering coal.We need to figure out how to make highly productive, manufactured products, in highly automated environments.

Ultimately, this would create the opportunity to move away from electricity generation, which is tethered to a transmission system and the electricity market, towards a commodities based system, focused around the production of a product which can be stored, transported and exported to global markets.This is how we can free up siting opportunities, and enable very scalable, offshore siting to really come into its own.. We should also be looking to appropropriate some of the existing petrochemical supply chain, adopting its relevant skills, and the existing oil and gas infrastructure, and moving these elements into a better space.