CHON Philosophy
by Ian Page As we have a new member, I thought a quick reprise of what CHON is about would be helpful. The primary context is that there are two parallel scenarios of the future covered in this blog. REN: the transition to renewable everything, but particularly energy materials and industry. REN covers energy production, storage, grid integration, transmission, usage, new opportunities, the rapid elimination of 95% of fossils and the collapse of fossil economics, and the hydrogen and ammonia economies. It also covers the "energy desert" where there is insufficient spare fossil energy to drive renewable volumes up to the point where they replace fossils in time. CHON: the end state when an element cascade has happened, where expensive rarer elements become too energy intensive to use, are used in smaller units per product, and thus recycling also be too energy intensive to be of much use. At this point, only infinitely recyclable elements are usable, in particular, Ca...