Peter Saundry

Energy & Climate - science, technology, policy, economics & law. Innovation & optimism, not habit & fear. Adjunct Prof of Energy, @JHU

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#Energy rule #1 The energy system is complex & connected. Diverse sources, processes, & uses - issues of economics, science & tech., environment, culture & politics, security, access & equity & much more are all connected. Beware of simple, silver bullet, "just do this" answers.

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@BenBoardma97122 @RichardAmofa I appreciate that the linesman does not have a clear view, but if the linesman cannot see Bali offside, he shouldn’t call it. That is poor officiating or ‘big team bias.’

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@OfficialTomKirk @podforpilgrims 🤣 why am I not surprised? 0-1 Hardie (Pen)

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@NigelRick @Argyle @JackLeslieCamp @ArgyleUsa Brilliant. Albeit 98 years late, but still brilliant. 💚

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8. The transition away from oil is underway. In June 2023, the International Energy Agency announced that it expected the use of oil for transport fuels to decline after 2026 (because of EVs, biofuels, & efficiency) with peak oil demand in 2028-2030. https://t.co/bALaLXpHel

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It is amazing how little most people know about the basics of oil in the United States. A few fundamentals for the interested. 1. Oil production in the U.S. is at record levels (still slightly below pre-pandemic levels)

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7. The U.S. continues to import "heavy" crude oil for refining because it has significant infrastructure (esp. "cokers") to "break" long-chain hydrocarbons. Thus, the U.S. imports heavy crude, refines it, and exports finished petroleum products.

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6. Only about one-quarter of U.S. oil production occurs on federal/public lands, most of it offshore. However, onshore oil production on federal lands has tripled in the last decade.

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5. The U.S. is a net exporter of oil. In 2005 & 2006, the U.S. net importer (60% of the volume of petroleum products provided to consumers) while in 2022 it was a net exporter (6% of the volume of petroleum products provided to consumers).

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4. Note the difference in numbers between the first and second graphs. Reason? The U.S. gets a lot of oil from natural gas production. Natural gas comes out of the ground "wet" with "Natural Gas Liquids" which are separated and added to the flows of crude oil to refineries.

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3. The U.S. is the largest oil producer in the world, well ahead of Saudi Arabia and Russia. Again, note the increase after 2008 because of fracking.

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2. The reason for the sharp increase in production around 2008? Fracking. Fracking utilizes two technologies (hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling) which were decades in development. https://t.co/5LR5yScq3z

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@podforpilgrims @callammacca97 👏 excellent!

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@BoSondrup Bo: For home games contact @NigelRick or @JamesBreeden They have season tickets which will be available if they are not visiting.

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@andrewsaundry I am hoping there is a functional equivalent to Twitter run by sane adults that we can switch to. Actually a site run by sane children would be a improvement too.

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@mike_trembath @SimonHallett @Argyle Every pound spent on flare fines is a pound unavailable for players. It is sickening when our own fans do things to hurt the club. If you are a fan of the club don’t hurt it.

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@andrewsaundry Happy Birthday!

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@andrewsaundry Correction. This is the most substantial climate change legislation ever.

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Attention Montgomery County voters, the Democratic Central Committee may be “downballot” but please vote for Andrew. I may be biased, but if you know him, you know what a great person he is and how devoted to making our community a wonderful place to live for everyone.

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So, my lovelies, I just dropped Version 4 of the Clean Hydrogen Ladder! For anyone new to all this, the ladder is my attempt to put use cases for clean hydrogen into some sort of merit order, because not all use cases are equally likely to succeed. 1/10

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@andrewsaundry Thanks! ❤️