Michael Mullany

The goal of the fossil fuel lobby in the US is to make electricity as expensive as possible in order to defend the oil market for cars/trucks and the gas market for industrial and building heat.

Expensive electricity is a goal, not an inadvertent side effect.

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Spoiler alert - my next column is about HVO. If you squint closely, you’ll see from this data that nearly half of Ireland’s transport biofuels came from used cooking oil (UCO) and palm oil mill effluent (POME), from east Asia, which are widely believed to actually be virgin palm oil.

Enhanced geothermal systems are not chip fabrication plants: they don't need high purity freshwater; they can operate with low quality brackish water & there is lots of that in the American mountain states.

I wish there was stronger messaging around some of the core things everyone can do:

- Get your BER up to a B2
- Switch to an EV or use transit/bikes
- Eat any meat except beef
- Support offshore wind
- Ferries and trains for holidays, not flights.
- Enforce the ban on mechanized turf cutting

Sounds like my write up on the failure of genetic engineering to produce drought resistant crops - which has exactly 14 reads (vs biochar at like 1,000)

Do a FOI and analyze the diagnosis rate and volume by assessor.

It's kind of funny that this is being proposed for Kinsale - where half the existing roads on the perimeter have no footpaths for pedestrians to get into the town.

When people say that green hydrogen will never be cheap because there will be no learning curve for its Balance of Plant - it's worth remembering that Solar BoP has reduced by more than half since 2010. Scale, specialization + integration can deliver real cost reduction for "mature" technologes.

Great story! Well deserved!

Forcing more companies to use pure sugar without reforming import quotas just pushes up prices and puts more money into Florida sugar growers pocket - as it's designed to do.

As domestic auto and appliance scrap becomes available in China, new steel capacity is switching over to electric arc furnaces in order to match this supply.

However, EV bodyframes may switch over to carbon fibre in the next five years, putting long term steel scrap supply in question.

Decarbonizing Cooking Doesn't Matter (Much) Impact: <0.1% of Global Warming Potential Technology Maturity: Scaled/Mature This is the sixth article in a series on the climate technologies shown in my ClimateTech Market Map, summarizing their tec...

Cooking emissions are a rounding error.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/decarb...

20 year old me "The Butlerian Jihad is obviously dumb. No one would voluntarily destroy such useful technology."

55 year old me "Hmm ..."

There are certain places where topsoil is actually being lost - European tree and grape orchards, East African highlands.

But this has been blown way out of proportion by the *desertification industrial complex" which brandishes poorly calibrated models as "proof".

A Map of ClimateTech Maturity & Impact By far my most popular article has been my analysis of the Gartner Emerging Technology Hype Cycle (120,000+ reads). For that article, I re-analyzed 200+ technologies that Gartner Group analysts had tr...

Anyway - full list of articles are linked off the Climate Solutions Market Map article

www.linkedin.com/pulse/map-cl...

Carbon dioxide removal topics (Biochar & Rock Weathering) have the best performance wrt read rate + volume. Agriculture-related topics are above average engagement.

I was surprised to see that offshore wind had the worst engagement - and that took almost a month of research - poor payoff there!

Which climate topics are people interested in learning about on LinkedIN? Here is the read/impression rate for my 17 deepdives into climate topics & solutions.

Crop Engineers vs. Climate Drought (Part 2) These last two weeks I'm taking a break from my series of articles on climate solutions to write about drought, crop yields and genetic engineering. Specifically, how climate change is changing the fr...

Part 2 of my two-parter on climate droughts, crop drought resistance and why genetic engineering for drought resistance has been a big fat (nearly) zero so far.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/crop-e...

What do you mean by "works" ? AFAIK there's no capture rates that high in any working pilot OR commercial deployment.

We've known about this since the 2013 National Port Policy was published. No progress in 12 years.

How Ireland’s ‘Mediocre’ Milk Powder Made it Big in West Africa In a packed function room in Lagos, Nigeria, the jaunty sounds of Stevie Wonder’s ‘Sir Duke’ start to play. Then, as a giant sparkler and confetti cannon erupt, a curtain slowly parts to reveal a spin...

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Animal-Free Dairy 2025: Are We There Yet? Impact: 2.7% of GWP Technology Maturity: Pilot/Scaled-Subsidized This is Article #13 of a series on the climate technologies shown in my ClimateTech Market Map, with a deeper dive into technical matur...

Caseins from precision fermentation are not yet cost competitive. But some other dairy proteins are. I did a long write up on the state of the market.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/animal...

CO2 levels up to ~540ppm lead to increased plant assimilation of CO2 - but that's where it flatlines. That's roughly the CO2 level predicted for 2100 under RCP4.5.

(From Gerhart, L.M. and Ward, J.K., 2010. Plant responses to low [CO2] of the past. New Phytologist, 188(3), pp.674-695.)

2022 was an exceptionally profitable year - almost *triple* the profit of the 2010's.

With the exception of 2023 - the 2020's have been highly profitable for Irish Dairy farms. This is the data from Teagasc 2024 farm survey:

Dairy is a globalized commodity market.

Price increases for dairy are equally supply/demand driven (German dairy allowed back into China, Hungarian foot and mouth disease) as well as cost driven (animal feed and fertilizer ⬆️)

But the ICMSA never loses a chance to blame environmental regulation.

And zero from battery storage because our battery derated tariffs are idiotic.

Absalom, Absalom. Chills your soul.

Donegal has multiple serious environmental problems - not least of which is the persistent dumping of sheep dip into streams.