Climate transition
Our carbon footprint
23,300 kg CO2e annually. That is the average Australian person’s annual carbon footprint emissions, one of the highest individual carbon footprint impacts globally..
Over 20% of our individual carbon footprint arises from the non-recyclable waste that we send to landfill each year and the full mobile and transport supply chain emissions and energy required to transport the goods and services we consume every day. Net zero ambitions are targeting a 50% reduction in our footprint by 2030.
Today’s technology, and embracing the circular economy, provides us with the opportunity to fully divert, recycle or regenerate all our waste and materials. Whether as renewable energy or as hydrogen to fuel the trucks, buses and cars on our roads.
Imagine the climate positive benefits from converting the non-recyclable materials we send to our neighbourhood landfill into fuel or power available at a local service to energise the vehicles that deliver our household products everyday.
Circular economy
Australians dispose of 27 million tpa of municipal solid, commercial and industrial waste to 1,272 landfill sites annually. Despite increased recycling targets, and given population growth, that level has been relatively steady for the last 20 years. Methane emissions from landfill are estimated to contribute to ~6% of Australia’s annual CO2e emissions.
Australia’s population typically reside along its key transport corridors, with 85% of Australian’s living within 50 km of the Australian shorelines.
Coupled with today’s technology this provides the ideal combination to advance “live locally” principles that recycle and recover our waste resources as higher value and longer life hydrogen and hydrogen derivatives.
The opportunity to utilise IMBYROCK as construction materials provides the ideal demonstration of the circular economy enabled through all non-recyclable waste to be diverted from landfills.
Energy transition
Four key market applications are emerging for the establishment of a Grade A+ hydrogen and low carbon methanol domestic supply chains to accelerate decarbonisation:
Fossil fuel power generation, accelerated replacement through renewable power;
Transport and mobility vehicles, manufacturing ZEV with technology centred around Grade A+ hydrogen, battery electric and low carbon methanol;
Maritime shipping, increasingly embracing low carbon methanol, but requiring global refuelling ports to expand future; and
Airlines, increasingly utilising methanol to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) to enable decarbonisation.
Mobility and transport
In Australia, 735,000 buses, articulated and rigid trucks emit 21.3 million mt CO2e annually, around 6.0% of Australia’s total CO2e emissions.
These vehicles and others consume 15 billion liters of diesel per year, equivalent to producing 2.2 million tons per annum of hydrogen. This diesel replacement with Grade A+ hydrogen is capable to be produced from upcycling 22 million tons of waste per years into Grade A+ hydrogen, all capable to be sourced from Australia’s municipal and commercial waste currently being disposed of to landfill.
In the transport and mobility sectors, advanced manufacturing and assembly of replacement ZEV will occur in Australia. ZEV as battery electric, hydrogen fuel cell electric or hydrogen internal combustion powertrains.
Stationary and mobile methanol to hydrogen generation is being developed, with a range of ZEV technology solutions for trucks and buses also being progressed.
