Thomas Moore

Very happy to share our latest article, published today in Joule. Our thesis in a tweet: CO2 separation is (relatively) easy, and it's OK to operate CO2 electrolyzers at low-to-moderate single pass CO2 conversions to maximize their performance. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Australians are quietly patriotic, and why wouldn't you be? - Compulsory preferential voting. - Watching the cricket on free to air TV. - A quality, ad-free ABC. Today we can add: - A social media ban on under-16s. Sensible policy in the face of megalithic corporate interests.

Read our CCS review in ACS Chemical Reviews to learn: - Why modern packings have pressure drop 10x lower than Sherwood predicted. - How molecular structure influences the performance of CCS solvents. And much more! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Very happy to share our latest perspective in @NatChemEng 'Accelerating climate technologies through the science of scale-up.' We discuss tools academics and engineers can use to accelerate the scaling of new technologies. Read it here: rdcu.be/d30IM

@eric_lang It's an incredible place right now. The science community have all moved there. I just hope it's sustainable.

I would never shame or scold a creator who won't/can't leave twitter for whatever reason. Instead, encouragement: on the other site (the blue one), I have 1/10th the followers as on twitter And engagement (likes, RTs, etc) per post are *higher* than here.

@jessenleon @ThePhDPlace This is the answer...

@ThePhDPlace Personally, I'm looosing followers her and gaining at 🦋

Where are all the academics at?

@KevinClimate @scawen1 @GeorgeMonbiot A few concrete benefits: - Rather than just a 'for you' and 'following' feed, there are curated feeds on your topic. 'EnergySky', 'GreenSky' and 'BookSky', for example. - The 'Starter Packs' link you into a community (e.g. Decarbonisation experts) quickly. Low entry barrier.

@KevinClimate @scawen1 @GeorgeMonbiot It's worth a try - I jumped on today and have been impressed. Don't think I'll be back here again.

I agree with @GeorgeMonbiot here - other than referring to it as X. In my view it remains ‘twitter’ & ‘tweets’. It’s nicely embedded in our language & I’m disinterested when some bloke unilaterally decides to rename our established platform after a single letter.

@JonahMessinger @JesseJenkins @dan_kammen @howarth_cornell @rff His paper w/ Jacobsen on Green & Blue H2 is the single-worst analysis of a CCS process I have seen. It's clear they didn't understand how a CCS process works, and didn't ask anyone who did. When the inevitable rebuttal paper came, they doubled down. At least they didn't sue...

@JesseJenkins @dan_kammen @howarth_cornell @rff I really don’t understand maintaining respect for Howarth’s LCA work after he willfully ignored my critiques, especially his normalizing to thermal energy units while purporting to compare emissions for electric power production between coal & LNG (which the media ran with).

I have tremendous respect for @dan_kammen @howarth_cornell & other signatories of this letter. However the quoted text below is a factually incorrect statement: @RFF analysis of oil & gas leasing provisions and my analysis of LNG exports both explicitly focus on global impacts, including accounting for trade and market dynamics (both supply and demand elasticity responses and substitution dynamics in domestic and international markets) and lifecycle emissions.

@KevinClimate @AndrewOlUndy1 @autofac @KevinClimate Fair enough! Would *love* to see full LCA standards enforced. In my view, CCS wouldn't be a distraction in the energy space if it were legislated, funded and built (again, the tech is TRL9). But if LNG facilities are built on the promise of CCS funding one day...

@DrThomasMoore @AndrewOlUndy1 @autofac Many of my tweets expressly point to CCS for cement process emissions & potentially some steel production:

A measured interview on the UK Govt's CCS investment plans by Prof. McMullin @autofac . Well worth a listen, & all credit to the journalist/programme for giving Barry the time to explain the issues clearly & carefully. Ps. I disagree on the Icelandic offsetting option:)

@KevinClimate @AndrewOlUndy1 @autofac Regarding strategic delay, I tend to think that other green tech. is far more culpable. Rather than tightening our belts and putting on CCS *today* (something we could legislate today for $$$) we instead dawdle and hope magic solutions emerge from low TRL technologies.

@KevinClimate @AndrewOlUndy1 @autofac CCS won't be most effective for everything, but for a subset of technologies (especially, e.g., heavy industry) it it is very likely necessary. If we had a technology-neutral price incentive, this would play out. (And I'd love to be proven wrong if other tech undercuts it!)

@LRxword @LRxword no worries, love your work! Would buy a compendium of those cryptics - they're far better than anything else out there.

@DrThomasMoore It seems so, sorry about that!

@LRxword have they moved the weekly cryptic crossword behind a paywall? We enjoyed doing the new one each Saturday morning :(

@janrosenow This is mostly true. But in the petrochemicals sector, you have the opposite problem: it's relatively easy to turn fossil fuels into chemicals, but it takes a lot more energy to make chemicals from other feedstocks (esp. CO2).

The primary energy fallacy is the idea that all primary energy from fossil fuels must be replaced with an equivalent amount of clean energy. BUT: This is not necessary because conversion losses do not need to be replaced. More than 2/3 of all primary energy is lost as waste heat. I first heard @MLiebreich use this term which captures this phenomenon nicely I think.

@nitish_gov @NTUsg Huge congrats @nitish_gov! Much deserved!

I look forward to starting as an assistant professor in the school of chemistry, chemical engineering, and biotechnology at NTU Singapore @ntusg this September!

@ThePhDPlace On the flip-side, if you can push through this and settle into a project you love, you have: - Freedom to pursue whatever you want - Opportunities for more interesting jobs - Chance to develop deep friendships - Chance to do something truly novel

@ThePhDPlace - The shock of moving from a structured education (study this -> do this exam -> succeed) to an unstructured and far more open-ended project ('figure out new science!') - Isolation - Failing Experiments - Expectation of long hours - (Often) Homesickness

Would love to hear your thoughts on this

@michael_nielsen Oh, I love this spot. Hope you're feeling better!

I can hear dozens of birds from this spot. (It’s a bike track for kids in the foreground - very well used outside school hours!)

I finally got Covid 😡

The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. But American immigration policy has made hundreds of thousands willing to risk treacherous terrain, violence, and disease to cross it. @itscaitlinhd traveled the route to report on their experiences firsthand: theatln.tc/ACXG41Le