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In contrast, with advanced heat sources, it’s possible to move into a shipyard based manufacturing environment to make offshore production platforms.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.We’ll make the adoption of new, clean fuels much more likely if we create drop-in, substitute fuels that can be produced at a comparable cost, with the same performance, as the fuels we use today, and then distribute them through the existing supply chain infrastructure.. Reducing risk as we decarbonise.
In other words, we want clean energy solutions which won’t require big behavioural changes, or huge investment in associated infrastructure.
That’s how we’ll reduce risk, because such fuels won’t require the sequencing of a whole load of investments in order to make the product really work.By moving to a regenerative model of reusing products multiple times, we facilitate waste reduction by using fewer natural resources.
In addition, we support natural processes, use less water, increase biodiversity and replenish biological materials.This is one of the most powerful ways we can tackle climate change.. What is the circular economy in sustainable construction?.
The principles of a circular economy involve planning ahead for the reuse of products, materials and resources to minimise waste.The key design principles are shown below:.
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