Natural Gas is the Cleanest and most Likely Source of Energy to Fuel the World.

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6 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

So, why is the United States or other countries not doing it themselves?

This was an accidental byproduct of an agreement with US to destroy the plutonium overstocks. A corresponding US project (a plant to make useful MOX fuel) has generally been a failure

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nukes-plutonium-specialreport-idUSKBN1HR1KC

The article says it cost $17 billion so far. Why does US have such expensive project fail, you tell me? Lately, happens all the time.

Nobody else is (officially) making plutonium, radioactive elements hotter than plutonium and/or "undepleting" the depleted uranium.  Because this could be considered to be somewhat naughty from the arms control standpoint?

OK, Israel is obviously making and stockpiling as much plutonium as they can using the small (formerly) research reactor at Dimona, but that's just stupid.

The crowd who get to name new elements isolated from inconceivable radioactive junk only contains Americans, Russians and Japanese, nobody else. The only place where it is still done is Russian Dubna. None of the stuff at Los Alamos anymore. Officially, at least.

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Images of natural gas powered ships: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=natural+gas+powered+ships+worldwide&iax=images&ia=images

Edited February 1, 2022 by ronwagn
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19 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

Images of natural gas powered ships: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=natural+gas+powered+ships+worldwide&iax=images&ia=images

FLNG on the rocks

https://www.novatek.ru/en/business/arctic-lng/

https://tass.com/society/1376481

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1 hour ago, ronwagn said:

My major objection to nuclear disposal is just leaving it laying around all over the United States and other countries. Not being deeply buried. Where have we ever deeply buried it?

It's never been done to my knowledge.  Proposed, yes, but not executed.  Everyone would rather kick the can down the road to someone else at some other time than make a decision.  

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2 hours ago, Andrei Moutchkine said:

FLNG on the rocks

https://www.novatek.ru/en/business/arctic-lng/

https://tass.com/society/1376481

6 mps? equal 6 what?

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2 hours ago, ronwagn said:

6 mps? equal 6 what?

This is 6.6 mtpa (millions of tons of ready-made LNG per year) per train. Overall 6.6 x 3 = 19.8 million which seems a bit of a lowball. I looked up the spec on Novatek's nearby existing plant, the Yamal LNG, and it says 16.5 mtpa, but really ends up making something like 27-28, I think.

Google suggests

1 million tonnes per year (mtpa) (LNG) = 1.379 bcm/year (gas)

so, multiply by the last number to compare to piped gas. Come to think of it, 19.8 X 1.39 ~= 27.5, so I may be confusing millions of tons and billions of cubic meters somewhere...

Edited February 2, 2022 by Andrei Moutchkine

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13 minutes ago, Andrei Moutchkine said:

This is 6.6 mtpa (millions of tons of ready-made LNG per year) per train. Overall 6.6 x 3 = 19.8 million which seems a bit of a lowball. I looked up the spec on Novatek's nearby existing plant, the Yamal LNG, and it says 16.5 mtpa, but really ends up making something like 27-28, I think.

Google suggests

1 million tonnes per year (mtpa) (LNG) = 1.379 bcm/year (gas)

so, multiply by the last number to compare to piped gas. Come to think of it, 19.8 * 1.39 ~ 27.5, so may be confusing millions of tons and billions of cubic meters here...

Thanks, Andrei.

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2 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

Thanks, Andrei.

America and Canada need to replicate Russia's arctic successes or find easier to exploit sources. We would be doing far better in Alaska without the green movement and Biden closing the rarely visited Arctic N.P. etc.  

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18 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

America and Canada need to replicate Russia's arctic successes or find easier to exploit sources. We would be doing far better in Alaska without the green movement and Biden closing the rarely visited Arctic N.P. etc.  

Difficult. Russia got over 2 million people already living beyond the polar circle. You've got a few thousand, most of whom are indigenous living close to their traditional lifestyle. Canada isn't doing that much better, either. Most of them cluster along the US border, which is at Crimean latitude, as I already mentioned elsewhere (deep, tropical south by Russian standards)

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15 hours ago, Rob Plant said:

Radioactive Waste Management

https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-wastes/radioactive-waarshaIslands leaks have proven them wrong. Assumption on the decay of  mondern concrete wihste-management.aspx

Unfortunately the Marshall Isl.Using sand and fly ash deteriorates faster than assumed and leak proved every ones models wrong.  Old roman concrete does better.  Pantheon is 2000 years old.

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https://www.oilandgastoday.com.au/hunter-power-project-receives-approval/

Australian project approved. 

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On 2/1/2022 at 8:23 PM, Andrei Moutchkine said:

Difficult. Russia got over 2 million people already living beyond the polar circle. You've got a few thousand, most of whom are indigenous living close to their traditional lifestyle. Canada isn't doing that much better, either. Most of them cluster along the US border, which is at Crimean latitude, as I already mentioned elsewhere (deep, tropical south by Russian standards)

We can do the same for the right wages. That might be a problem compared to Russian wages though.

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https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Tanker-Rates-Turn-Negative-As-US-LNG-Flocks-To-Europe.html Europe paid the price for LNG. They need to keep their reserves filled up and develop more while preparing for the future. They left themselves wide open for this kind of threat to their energy dependence. They can blame their green dreams that have been overhyped an have not yet met their needs. They need to get their Green Parties out of power. 

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https://www.naturalgasintel.com/latin-american-oil-natural-gas-drilling-growth-seen-continuing-in-2022/

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  https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/egypt-natural-gas-exports-reach-75-mln-tonnes-this-fiscal-year-minister-2022-02-10/

Egypt natural gas exports to reach 7.5 mln tonnes this fiscal year -minister

Reuters

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https://en.antaranews.com/news/214769/new-oil-gas-deposits-found-in-natuna-skk-migas

New oil, gas deposits found in Natuna: SKK Migas

 15 hours ago

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On 2/1/2022 at 8:00 PM, ronwagn said:

America and Canada need to replicate Russia's arctic successes or find easier to exploit sources. We would be doing far better in Alaska without the green movement and Biden closing the rarely visited Arctic N.P. etc.  

It would take a tremendous amount of new gas to make up production that politics takes out of production. The largest producers of FF in the world love to manipulate supply to push policy. Humans are our own worst enemy with a long and nasty track record. PS The US is nat gas net independent. So why is it you think you need more?

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1 minute ago, Boat said:

It would take a tremendous amount of new gas to make up production that politics takes out of production. The largest producers of FF in the world love to manipulate supply to push policy. Humans are our own worst enemy with a long and nasty track record. PS The US is nat gas net independent. So why is it you think you need more?

America cannot prosper without exporting goods. Corporations having everything made in China and positioning themselves to help Chinese totalitarianism is suicidal for America and the Free World. We need to produce what we can, why do you think that Russia wants to explore for oil and gas and sell it. Why do we grow corn and soybeans for the world? Europe is selling its freedom and strength to Russia because they did not want to produce energy from their own land. Maybe wind and waves will work, but when and at what cost? China makes the components needed for decent prices. In the meanwhile LNG and Piped gas will be essential, either from Russia or from non threatening partners. The Germans are selling out all of the European Union just as our corporations sell out to China. 

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On 2/1/2022 at 4:21 PM, Andrei Moutchkine said:

This was an accidental byproduct of an agreement with US to destroy the plutonium overstocks. A corresponding US project (a plant to make useful MOX fuel) has generally been a failure

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-nukes-plutonium-specialreport-idUSKBN1HR1KC

The article says it cost $17 billion so far. Why does US have such expensive project fail, you tell me? Lately, happens all the time.

Nobody else is (officially) making plutonium, radioactive elements hotter than plutonium and/or "undepleting" the depleted uranium.  Because this could be considered to be somewhat naughty from the arms control standpoint?

OK, Israel is obviously making and stockpiling as much plutonium as they can using the small (formerly) research reactor at Dimona, but that's just stupid.

The crowd who get to name new elements isolated from inconceivable radioactive junk only contains Americans, Russians and Japanese, nobody else. The only place where it is still done is Russian Dubna. None of the stuff at Los Alamos anymore. Officially, at least.

I’m not going to look it up for you but when the USSR collapsed there was nuke fuel just laying around. The US was so concerned about terrorists or third parties they paid billions for security and bought some of the fuel. It was stated like 10% of US nuke power came from Cold War nuke material. I think this program lasted a long time. What happened later I don’t know. 

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39 minutes ago, ronwagn said:

America cannot prosper without exporting goods. Corporations having everything made in China and positioning themselves to help Chinese totalitarianism is suicidal for America and the Free World. We need to produce what we can, why do you think that Russia wants to explore for oil and gas and sell it. Why do we grow corn and soybeans for the world? Europe is selling its freedom and strength to Russia because they did not want to produce energy from their own land. Maybe wind and waves will work, but when and at what cost? China makes the components needed for decent prices. In the meanwhile LNG and Piped gas will be essential, either from Russia or from non threatening partners. The Germans are selling out all of the European Union just as our corporations sell out to China. 

Those corporations are international and are beholding to their share holders. Not the US. We sell businesses to foreigners all the time and brag about it. PS those soybeans, wheat and corn exports come at the expense of our water Aquifers which our future generations will be pissed about. 
The Europeans made their own energy related mess. In the US where renewables are the most popular the price of btu is very competitive with FF. Unlike the doom and gloom bs posted here. Texas for example kills folks keeping prices down but is much cheaper per btu than many northern states that rely on nat gas. You just don’t like to research those facts. Texas is still adding renewables along with most of the south. 
There will be a point that current tech can’t help. I just hope we don’t sell all our nat gas that we will need for that remaining base load.  You might need some money for freedom files baked in patriot cake to get the prez out of jail. Lol 

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9 minutes ago, Boat said:

Those corporations are international and are beholding to their share holders. Not the US. We sell businesses to foreigners all the time and brag about it. PS those soybeans, wheat and corn exports come at the expense of our water Aquifers which our future generations will be pissed about. 
The Europeans made their own energy related mess. In the US where renewables are the most popular the price of btu is very competitive with FF. Unlike the doom and gloom bs posted here. Texas for example kills folks keeping prices down but is much cheaper per btu than many northern states that rely on nat gas. You just don’t like to research those facts. Texas is still adding renewables along with most of the south. 
There will be a point that current tech can’t help. I just hope we don’t sell all our nat gas that we will need for that remaining base load.  You might need some money for freedom files baked in patriot cake to get the prez out of jail. Lol 

Too bad that the wind turbines are subsidized and can't handle the shortage of Chinese components. Same with solar. For my part, I will promote natural gas, as an alternative fuel that is readily available wherever it is needed. It is available throughout the world wherever anyone wants to find it. America cannot thrive buying Chinese goods and helping them thrive while stealing our technology, buying our farmland, and spreading their atheistic beliefs while persecuting religion. 

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On 2/8/2022 at 6:21 PM, ronwagn said:

https://www.oilandgastoday.com.au/hunter-power-project-receives-approval/

Australian project approved. 

Gas-fired power falls to lowest level since 2005 as Coalition pushes ahead with its ‘gas-fired recovery’

Renewable energy provided 31.4% of electricity within the national market covering the eastern states and South Australia in 2021

The exponential rise of renewable energy led to it providing more than 30% of Australia’s electricity in 2021, while gas-fired power fell to its lowest level in 16 years.

Data collected by OpenNEM, an open source platform, shows renewable energy provided 31.4% of electricity within the national market covering the eastern states and South Australia last year. It was 32.2% in the separate West Australian grid.

Gas-fired power – which is being backed by the Morrison government through hundreds of millions of dollars in funding as part of what it calls a “gas-fired recovery” from the pandemic – has fallen to its lowest level of generation since 2005.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/10/gas-fired-power-falls-to-lowest-level-since-2005-as-coalition-pushes-ahead-with-its-gas-fired-recovery

Edited February 13, 2022 by Jay McKinsey

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1 hour ago, Jay McKinsey said:

 

Gas-fired power falls to lowest level since 2005 as Coalition pushes ahead with its ‘gas-fired recovery’

Renewable energy provided 31.4% of electricity within the national market covering the eastern states and South Australia in 2021

The exponential rise of renewable energy led to it providing more than 30% of Australia’s electricity in 2021, while gas-fired power fell to its lowest level in 16 years.

Data collected by OpenNEM, an open source platform, shows renewable energy provided 31.4% of electricity within the national market covering the eastern states and South Australia last year. It was 32.2% in the separate West Australian grid.

Gas-fired power – which is being backed by the Morrison government through hundreds of millions of dollars in funding as part of what it calls a “gas-fired recovery” from the pandemic – has fallen to its lowest level of generation since 2005.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/10/gas-fired-power-falls-to-lowest-level-since-2005-as-coalition-pushes-ahead-with-its-gas-fired-recovery

https://www.oilandgastoday.com.au/conference-to-discuss-future-of-csg-in-victoria/

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https://www.oilandgastoday.com.au/lck-lodges-patent-for-syngas-technology/

LCK lodges patent for syngas technology

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1 hour ago, Jay McKinsey said:

 

Gas-fired power falls to lowest level since 2005 as Coalition pushes ahead with its ‘gas-fired recovery’

Renewable energy provided 31.4% of electricity within the national market covering the eastern states and South Australia in 2021

The exponential rise of renewable energy led to it providing more than 30% of Australia’s electricity in 2021, while gas-fired power fell to its lowest level in 16 years.

Data collected by OpenNEM, an open source platform, shows renewable energy provided 31.4% of electricity within the national market covering the eastern states and South Australia last year. It was 32.2% in the separate West Australian grid.

Gas-fired power – which is being backed by the Morrison government through hundreds of millions of dollars in funding as part of what it calls a “gas-fired recovery” from the pandemic – has fallen to its lowest level of generation since 2005.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/10/gas-fired-power-falls-to-lowest-level-since-2005-as-coalition-pushes-ahead-with-its-gas-fired-recovery

Natural gas makes the most sense for Australia, it is still the most cost effective way to go in the long run. Customers won't take high prices. Chinese products are not in the best interest of Australia. Fine if Australia produces their own wind turbines, solar panels, chips, etc.