Materials engineer, scientist, teacher and student. TATA Steel Chair at Swansea University. Director @SustainSteel
Wales, United Kingdom
Joined July 2017
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Hi Ed, isn't this a lot to do with QE as a sticking plaster for the economy *on paper* vs tangible investment in economy e.g. infra & skills to deliver wages / productivity etc? Brilliant demolition by @EthanYWu & @rbrtrmstrng in context of liquidity here..open.spotify.com/episode/3w8…
Tried to get Sheffield from South Wales, after 3 or 4 swerves and changes I turned around at a bleak Severn Tunnel Junction after my last hope north got cancelled. Glad I gave up when I did as Temple Meads was my next hope. Trying again tomorrow. Glutton for punishment🤔
Wow. There are no trains running south from Bristol. Not their fault - there's flooding. But instead of replacement buses, @GWRHelp has given us taxi chits. Just one problem: hardly any taxi drivers want to do the distance. There's a queue of 1000 people and no movement.
@SustainSteel's own @BeckyWaldram providing the low down on decarb options and the UK in that context.
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This is critically important. It was highlighted to me in a recent discussion on potential future HDRI (near zero primary iron) trade. It's also harder in general to build in these regions.... but we must.
Costs of capital for renewables are much higher in low income countries, and this correlates well with much lower deployment.
We need strong domestic policies and scaled up and more effective international support to overcome this.
More here from @IEA : iea.blob.core.windows.net/as…
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The Telegraph has gone absolutely heat pump tonto. When you replace editorial judgement with algorithmic outrage-farming, you end up making a total fool of yourself. For the record, heat pumps work, and the UK has several world-leading manufacturers. telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09…
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If ever there was a reminder that clean energy infrastructure was a prerequisite for green growth and investment, this is it.
More broadly I wonder what will temper FIDs first, the number of sites with suitable clean energy, or the availability of ore of sufficient quality.
Sweden’s H2 Green Steel is in talks with governments in Canada to build a factory in northern Quebec, as the young firm tries to deliver on a promise of producing steel with minimal carbon emissions trib.al/NsWeSoI
As @BenChu_ eloquently points out in his thread, not sure hindsight is the most appropriate term.
It was a once in a multi-generation opportunity for investment. Debt rocketed in any case.
🚨 Austerity update 🚨
"With hindsight we probably should have taken advantage [of low interest rates] and borrowed more when times were more stable...and invested more."
Former HMT permanent secretary (05-16) Nicholas Macpherson on Radio 4 Analysis ... bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001r7…
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Catch up with @AlastairMarsh and Michał P. Drewniok's journey with the Transforming Foundation Industries Network+ and learn about the impact of their research on waste mapping of foundation industries.
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When England are playing and you walk past a Welsh 🏉 club hearing them all excitedly shout combinations of YEESSS and COME ON!! 😬😬😬
I'd be keen to look at an equivalent for steel, if you'd be happy to share your methodology I could get the data.
Interesting that despite the stark differences in technological maturity, in the UK at least the timelines for the two options might be similar. That is categorically bonkers. Must do something huge and strategic on grid infrastructure.
HS2 issues do not inspire confidence.
My only comment on Bham to Man HS2 is this....
Keep an eye on the land.
Who had it before (many forced to sell)?
How much did it cost the taxpayer?
Who'll end up owning it after?
How much will they pay for it?
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Super impactful and interesting work 👇
Catch up with Matthew Hobbs journey with the Transforming Foundation Industries Network+ and learn about the impact of his research on Emissivity Characterisation of Metals from Near Infrared to Long Wave Infrared @sheffielduni
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Just had a 💡 moment. Been wondering where I've heard this 'keep repeating irrelevant and/or basic stuff over and over mixed with buzz words' thing in political interviews before. It's exactly the sentence structure you get in exam scripts of students who clearly haven't revised.
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🙏🏿Lord please grant me the confidence to deny a brilliant woman prof / researcher tenure track, demote her, push her out of my school, to be the adversity that she had to overcome in life... and when she overcomes me and wins the Nobel prize, to roll in like I did something. Amen
Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, Penn’s historic mRNA vaccine research team, win 2023 @NobelPrize in Medicine bit.ly/48BswPR #nobelprize
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Penn's wording is misleading and has the potential to manipulate the reader.
Penn is missing a key aspect: they demoted her.
Here is an interview taken from the Nobel Price official X account:
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Another source:
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