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Electric vehicles are really just toys for the rich financed by those that cannot afford them. If we push this to the point where the extinction rebellion freaks and some politicians want it, in a very few decades we won’t need new roads anymore as most people won’t be able to afford a car anymore. 80% of all people will walk and use a combination of other means to get ahead but it won’t be anything like individual mobility anymore. That’s the theory at least – as long before the crushing cost of this, all will force politicians to cut back the lavish subsidies they currently throw to the well-heeled. Why? Because voters will smell where the rat and vote any politician that tries to do anything like that into oblivion. And I know politicians – they are turncoats and when they feel that their positions depend on ending the subsidy madness, they will cut them faster than you can say the word Tesla.

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Just imagine one of those things brings down an airliner full of people. Imagine 200 deaths because those hooligans need new stuff for their twitter accounts to feast on. Who would be to blame? Should be a straight answer – its pre-meditated murder for me and it should take an especially hard penalty because of the extra heinousness. Give them life in solitary. But I am sure this crazy world will consider them warriors for a just cause and those dead people are the price to pay. Is this the world we want to live in – living in fear of death every time you take off or land? That’s terrorism to me and like terrorists, they should be treated.

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What will you do if your cargo of LNG is in the Atlantic, the European market gives you a nickel for it, the Asian market has hit tanktops and there is just so much LNG around, you might want to think of transforming the Adriatic into a rink? That’s called oversupply. Not a funny situation for producers as they need stable, baseload production for their facilities. Ever switched an LNG production facility off and then on again? If you did, you know you don’t want that crap too often in your life. So, the LNG is coming and there is ever more of it. But the market does not siphon it off at sky high prices. The only option you have is throwing it off onto whatever buyer takes it for a nickel because you need your ship back. Empty, as the next cargo cannot linger in the tank forever. LNG is no business for the lazy, and it’s not for those with a heart condition. North Western Europe will take your cargo if you need to dump it – for a nickel. Balls of steel (or a large balance sheet) help.

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That’s the nature of Asian LNG buyers. When the tanks are full, the tanks are full. Nothing that can be done about that. We call this kind of buyer a flexibility taker – this means that they will require flexibility services from the market. This further means that someone needs to take excess LNG when it’s not needed and/or provides extra cargos when there is a spike. And this someone needs to be able to do so. That costs money. Some say that only someone truly mad would venture there – luckily that’s what we Europeans are. Welcome to your flexibility option on the other side of the world. We will help – in exchange for some pling.

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This assumes that the unbelievable cost figures advanced by renewable advocates are true. But they are not. Renewables still live on diesel generators providing backup and as regulation has it, they do so for free. This situation will not be manageable forever as someone will have to foot the bill eventually and this is always going to be the taxpayer, the ratepayer or both. But those are also the voters and once they smell the rat, they will start booting those proposing such nonsense out of office. As happens in Australia right now and a number of European nations. This foolishness has a predetermined breaking point.

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The stone age did not end for a lack of stones. It’s an old adage now but it’s no less true. Old oil relied on a never-ending bull market. Now there is a feeling that the party is going to end. I beg to differ as the world will need reliable energy for a long, long time to come and those companies that allow their oil pedigree to atrophy will eventually pay the price. Because there will be others that will pick up the slack, develop new resources and the world will pay the price through higher prices which will eventually put gasoline in the fires of those that have learned to be mean and lean in the meantime. Exciting times but no end for oil at all.

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We are close to the 25th solar minimum and it looks like this one is going to be the coldest one in 200 years. Truly serious Arctic exploration has started in the later 19th century which means that we will see ice formation like never before in human memory. This does not augur well for any economic activity in this part of the world and will likely raise the cost of such operations to unbearable levels. Enjoy shipping in the Arctic while it lasts.

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Is methane slippage an issue? Yes, it is. Can it be handled? Most definitely. Virtually all the models for methane emissions have consistently been wrong. It’s hard to detect where methane in the atmosphere comes from as there are so many sources and also the atmosphere has a way to deal with methane very quickly and efficiently. It’s not a pollutant but rather a component of the earth’s ecosystem for billions of years now. In the end, one source of methane is our digestive tract. So we produce it continuously and so does any animal plus many other lifeforms. It helps to see gases that have been part of the ecosystem for longer than multicellular life exists not as pollutants but rather as building blocks. Current methane concentrations are close to 2ppm. That’s 2 parts per million. That’s 2 cubic millimeters in a liter. The rare gas argon is about 5000 times more abundant.

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Public scrutiny is a good thing – safety first. So, there should be a very public, very open and thorough process when it comes to evaluating the risks of transporting LNG by rail. That being said, common sense should prevail. Because today, things that are vastly more dangerous than LNG are being transported by rail every day without even anyone batting an eyelid. Just take a look at some petrochemical products that are highly toxic, highly flammable, explosive or all of the former. LNG is nontoxic – nobody will suffer any injury just from inhaling it. LG is non-corrosive which means nothing it will touch degrades except that the cold of the product will freeze anything it touches. LNG is non-explosive or flammable by itself. It requires very special, hard to create conditions for doing those things. Virtually all the videos on the net supposedly depicting an exploding LNG truck show an LPG truck which is transported by ail cars by the way. This is safer than most stuff we transport now – let’s not forget this.

Read on Progressive Railroading …

Most people have already forgotten that we have only paper patched over the problems that resulted in the 2008 financial crisis. And as we have never cleaned up the mess for real, those problems have morphed into a fully fledged crisis that has spread form the financial sector into the real economy. What we see right now are still only the first signs on things to come. Expect a lot of more bad news, especially from China but also the European Union. There is an old adage that says when people flee into concrete gold (real estate investments) the economy is about to tank badly. China was the champion of this fools gold pouring concrete where they could. This will crash and this won’t go without lots of tears. No one will be unscathed but the US will weather the storm better than anyone else as Trump blows the cobwebs out of the economy and the US bathes in cheap energy.

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Europe starts to assume its role as a flexibility tool to world LNG markets. It can do so without any problem and copious pipeline gas supply underpins this capability. This puts a pin in the assumed competition between pipeline and LNG in Europe as there is none. Pipelines enable LNG games such as this, re-exporting to destinations that pay a better buck. You might think, those terminals in North Western Europe are not used to bring gas into Europe. So what? If they are storage sites for re-export to Asia and everyone makes money on this arrangement, all the better for everyone involved.

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There really is no such thing as a free lunch. We do understand the impact of oil and gas exploration, production and use in our current environment. There are impacts, there are side effects, but we know them, can calculate them, can mitigate them, know how to live with them without destroying every last piece of planetary real estate. And we also master the economic side of oil and gas. What we do not master at all is the consequences of a major shift towards renewable energy which we come to understand more and more is not so clean at all. Entire regions shred their airborne lifeforms to pieces, plaster everything they can find with beryllium panels, expose man and animal to infrasound waves, and don’t even provide us with economic, dependable energy. And now we are going to rip up the seafloor shredding entire ecosystems for the sake of a craze that’s destined to bankrupt the planet so that some investors can strike it rich. The sky is the limit – or maybe not.

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The same is true for stranded reserves on Earth. Many believe because a reserve exists, it is worth something. Some of the biggest known oil reserves on Earth are essentially worthless as the cost of retrieving the oil, processing the oil or transporting the oil (you can do this for gas as well) is higher than what the market would pay you for it. Its a calculus every entrepreneur must go through. my cost of doing business must be lower than what customers are ready to pay me for it. Wishful thinking does not help here. But we like our bubbles and whats more fitting to the pie in the sky than a bubble in the sky?

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I don’t have any numbers on this but if this is an economical way to put flares out, I am fine with it. There must be tens of thousands of such opportunities worldwide. Not only gas flares but also landfills, coal mines, biomethane producers, … It’s small, it can be brought there with a flatbed truck trailer, it requires minimal site preparation, it can be re-employed if the first site is down although I wonder what kind of retooling would be required in order to account for the changed composition of the gas. Plus I would strive to recover CAPEX on the first employment so I drag written off equipment around which makes economics better. Well done.

Read on Hydrocarbons Technology …

The hottest recorded day for the last 200 years. How have temperatures been recorded 200 years ago? By having someone loom at the mercury. Who has seen an old mercury thermometer? Any confidence that we were able to detect a difference of a tenth degree celsius? I remember when I was a kid, we could sometimes not make out to one degree what temperature it really was. Most stuff from before WW2 is mush, anything from before WW1 is guesswork at best. But we constantly see those lines with extremely intricate and precise temperature developments over hundreds, sometimes thousands of years. It should be stated that they are all guesswork and could be off by entire degrees Celsius. But that’s not what we are told. If it supports the Global Warming script, it’s elevated to be a fact, if it does not, it’s adjusted until it fits.

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I have said it many times. People need to feel the consequences of their actions. They need to feel them hard and unmitigated. This is the only reliable way to bring them back to sanity. No action to bring the renewable industry down is needed by anyone. Just let them have their way, let the people feel the consequences (pay the price and suffer the brownouts) and things will come alright. It’s a big price to pay, YES. Hundreds of Billions will be wasted. Landscapes will be wasted by those windmills and solar arrays. Mountains of dead batteries will grow. But humanity has survived worse and once society has been hammered hard enough by all this nonsense, it will develop a sufficient immune reaction and do the right thing.

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