Energy
Carbon capture: the honest assessment
A necessary technology for some industrial emissions, a poor substitute for not emitting, and a category where the claims and the deployed capacity diverge sharply.
Topic
costs
Every Muskeology article tagged costs — 5 pieces across 3 sections.
Electric Vehicles
Total cost of ownership: running the numbers properly
Purchase price is the worst comparison available, and the honest calculation depends heavily on where you charge and how long you keep it.
Space
Launch costs: reading the numbers honestly
Dollars per kilogram is the standard figure and it hides orbit, integration, insurance and whether the price is a price at all.
Energy
Nuclear power and the data centre question
A technology with an unusual cost structure meeting a customer with an unusual demand profile, and a set of claims worth checking.
Energy
Solar economics: what actually changed
Module prices fell by orders of magnitude over four decades, and the interesting question is what now dominates the cost instead.