Paul Martin (Spitfire Research)

Here's what a Cheetolini voodoo doll looks like when exposed to flame. Made of fat, starch and hot air, and hence a considerable flame. As much as I avoid practices based on poor or absent evidence, in this case it was worth a try!

Anybody MAGA who calls themselves a Christian had best read the Gospel of Matthew and understand what Jesus thought about hypocrites.

Let's not for a moment imagine how bad it would be if we substituted hydrogen for that methane...https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ese3.1861

Somebody dropped their watch!

Trolls and bots Canadian and otherwise, have been distorting the message of the brilliant speech @mark-carney.bsky.social gave at Davos. So here's the speech's main points, explained by AI so a 5 yr old can get the gist: spitfireresearch.com/mark-carneys...

Tough to imagine how any American listening to that Davos speech could have heard anything other than the ravings of a dementia patient, crying out for the 25th Amendment. Checks and balances better start checking and balancing, pronto!

How anyone could listen to that Davos speech and not hear the ravings of a dementia patient crying out for the 25th Amendment, is totally beyond me. Wake up, Americans- your president needs replacement, immediately.

Here's why DAC will NEVER be a solution. Making fuels from their combustion products using electricity is thermodynamic idiocy. Using DAC as the CO2 source doubles the stupid.https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-direct-air-capture-sucks-good-way-paul-martin/

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I was interviewed by Krissy Holmes on CBC Newfoundland On the Go last week in relation to several H2 to ammonia to rich, dumb Germans projects that have recently been cancelled. My commentary starts at around 12:30 into the piece www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

You're supposed to comply, do what the masked men with guns tell you, and get onboard the boxcars, and take a shower when ordered. Fuck that, fascists!

Here's why I think biofuels are the obvious solution for shipping and aviation- not fuels made from their combustion products using electricity, because that's thermodynamic idiocy. But it won't be cheap...https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/short-screed-biofuels-paul-martin-y7ohc/

Why Can't Batteries Store More than Four Hours Worth of Power? TL&DR Summary: they can. But the economics of energy storage depend on the application, and no energy storage option makes cheap kWh unless it is used to deliver enough kWh.

Why can't batteries store more than 4 hrs worth of electricity? Well, they can- but how frequently you cycle them, determines how cheap each kWh returned from storage will be. www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-ca...

Blue Hydrogen Reconsidered? TL&DR Summary: blue hydrogen will be cheaper than green hydrogen for the foreseeable future. But the risk remains that the product will be much cheaper if we ignore the fact that it’s not blue, but ra...

Time to reconsider blue hydrogen? Blue Hydrogen Reconsidered?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/blue-h...

There, I fixed it for you, nuclear bros. Seems you failed basic data analysis and statistics, or at least ignored it when it didn't make a happy story for your industry. Nukers aren't getting cheaper in China- they're just way cheaper to build there than anywhere else. Like everything.

The "Ocean Cleanup" is as Dumb as Direct Air Capture (and that's saying something) The Ocean Cleanup is as Dumb as Direct Air Capture UPDATED: 7 Aug 2025, to fix typos and to repeat myself about real solutions, because commenters simply will not click on the links to other articles ...

This one really touched a nerve. So many people want to believe...#hopium addiction is widespread. www.linkedin.com/pulse/ocean-...

I saw this and thought it was wryly amusing. Didn't see it on X- I'm done with that platform permanently.

Much better, and more likely to make money, if you do what Monolith is doing, and sell a valuable carbon product for $1/kg, than to bury it at any level of subsidy imaginable. And they're within 100 miles of 40% of ammonia users in the USA, so they have a market for their hydrogen already.

That's a statement of pure #hopium if I've ever heard one.

ER-6 Battery Pack Replacement ER-6 Battery Pack Replacement I converted a 1975 Triumph Spitfire to a fully electric vehicle in 2014. The project is described here, including the specifications of the motor, inverter and other comp...

The ER-6 battery pack has been replaced. Elon-free silent roadster motoring is back on the menu- with twice the range! The old pack is going into a solar installation where it will likely last another decade. www.linkedin.com/pulse/er-6-b...

Hydrogen by Methane Pyrolysis TL&DR: many are pushing the idea of heating up methane until it falls apart into carbon and hydrogen. That can be a smart way to make valuable carbon products, but doing that isn't easy- and it will n...

Methane pyrolysis is a carbon-producing technology. Make a valuable carbon product? Then you will make money, maybe- but the scale of your H2 production will be limited. Throw away your carbon into low value applications? You will not make money. www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrog...

As Canadians do their best to buy Canadian, it's worth pointing out how much the CBC has been a constant presence throughout our entire lives.

To me, Canada wouldn’t be Canada without the CBC. And I hope it never is. Don’t forget to vote tomorrow ❤ #vote #canadastrong @savethecbc.bsky.social

Somebody told @dannymichelmusic.bsky.social that musicians should stay in their lane and not make political comments. So he did the right thing - he wrote a protest song.

"But we ain't for sale, like one of your cars
And the northern star- that one's ours!"

Sorry, that backward. 1.66x per unit mass, 2.4x per unit volume.

A tale of two batteries. 11 years apart. The new ones to the left weigh the same, have 1.66x the energy density per unit volume and 2.4x the energy density per unit mass, and cost 30% as much per kWh. And they're not done getting better.

This is exactly the sort of stupidity that I'm constantly concerned about.… | Paul Martin | 35 comments This is exactly the sort of stupidity that I'm constantly concerned about. This is a fossil gas combined cycle power plant in Ontario. The "plan" is to make hydrogen using an electroly...

Here's my opinion about one such pilot project already running in Ontario. Stupid, with stupid sauce. www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-m...

Best to follow me on LinkedIn, that's where the series will be posted

Batteries arrived for the ER-6 replacement pack. The 11 yr old original cells will be going into a solar project to serve a low C rate retirement of likely another 10 years or so. Now the long process of capacity measurements before they go in the car!

Our old bumpersticker for our Model Y is starting to peel already, but the new one is sticking fast- and I think it makes the point even clearer. Elon can kiss my shiny metal ass!

Tesla is rattling around $234, but if it had twice the P/E of Toyota it would be $30. Fan-boys will buy it all the way down. It's a meme stock, not an investment, and hasn't been one for years. Stop funding the narcissist CEO - if you own it, ditch it, like you did your X account.

Yes, I did! It comes from a proto-Germanic word meaning "that which is given" in all three languages- it's just that the English are much more optimistic than the Germans and the Danes...