nikospan

Professor, Google Research Scholar(DNI), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. "Planting trees, knowing that might or will never sit in their shade"

[Athens Voice @athensvoice]

Υπογραφή Μνημονίου Συνεργασίας μεταξύ Αριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου και INSP

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Οι Πανελλαδικές και η κρίση της επαλήθευσης στη σύγχρονη δημοσιογραφία https://t.co/SvmCe2PGvm

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@emirates Vs @qatarairways 1-0

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H είδηση της ημερας: Θεσσαλονίκη: Η ΕΛΑΣ συνέλαβε 17χρονο για παράνομη μεταφορά αλλοδαπών με... πατίνιhttps://t.co/jzhiuMCTOp

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Σαν σήμερα ο Μπρους Σπρίνγκστιν εμφανίζεται σε συναυλία στο Harvard και ο John Lado του περιοδικού Rolling Stone γράφει είδα το μέλλον του ροκ και ονομάζεται Μπρους Σπρίνγκστιν

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Κριτικοί αναγνώστες @ipjlab Γενική Γραμμματεια Ενημέρωσης και Επικοινωνίας, Υπουργείο Παιδείας

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Τεντ Τέρνερ: Ο άνθρωπος που έβαλε τον κόσμο σε «ζωντανή σύνδεση» | Νίκος Παναγιώτου - Χρήστος Φραγκονικολόπουλος https://t.co/4tIPLuSbjt

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Το πρόγραμμα «Καλλιεργώντας Κριτικούς Αναγνώστες» με την υποστήριξη της ΓΓΕ και του Υπουργείου Παιδείας
δημιουργεί ενεργούς πολίτες με κρίση, δεξιότητες και ευθύνη απέναντι στην πληροφορία. Ευχαριστούμε τη @spapadopoulou @amna_news https://t.co/EJj5IdrIzY

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Μαθηματική ολυμπιάδα: Ένα χρυσό και τρία χάλκινα μετάλλια κατέκτησαν φοιτητές του ΑΠΘ https://t.co/LWgOqhHWCl

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Κείμενο μας στην. @Kathimerini_gr με @ChristosFrango1 https://t.co/t0jk3gw2BV

[Bloomberg @business]

Egypt agreed to buy all the gas that will be produced from the Aphrodite deposit in Cyprus, as the North African country looks to ensure long-term supply and reduce reliance on Israel https://t.co/btSenbZnmX

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

There are no words.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Everyone is covering the force majeure. Everyone is covering the 13 million tonnes. Everyone is covering the gas prices and the geopolitics and the five-year timeline.

My good friend Veron Wickramasinghe just asked the question nobody else is asking: how do you rebuild when the machines that make the molecules take three to four years to manufacture, ship through a closed strait, and commission in a war zone?

Read what he found.

Every LNG train at Ras Laffan requires high-purity nitrogen from Air Separation Units: cryogenic plants cooling air to minus 190 degrees to distil it into component gases. Pearl GTL needs 30,000 tonnes per day of pure oxygen from eight Linde-built ASUs. Each cold box: 470 tonnes, 60 metres tall. Lead time from contract to commissioning: three to four years. If destroyed, replacement arrives no earlier than 2029.

But here is the choke point that Veron identified that nobody else has. The heart of every cryogenic ASU is a brazed aluminium plate-fin heat exchanger called a BAHX. These exchangers operate with temperature differentials of one to two Kelvin and require precision brazing in vacuum furnaces. Only five companies on Earth are qualified to manufacture them. Five. For every cryogenic heat exchanger in every air separation unit, every LNG train, every industrial gas facility, and every hydrogen plant on the planet. Fives Cryo in France. Kobelco in Japan. Linde in Germany. Sumitomo in Japan. Chart Industries in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Current lead times: 12 to 18 months or more. And their order books are already full.

Veron was honest about what is confirmed and what is not. QatarEnergy CEO al-Kaabi confirmed LNG Trains 4 and 6 are damaged: 12.8 Mtpa offline, 3 to 5 year repairs, $20 billion annual revenue loss, force majeure up to 5 years. Shell confirmed Pearl GTL Unit 2 needs roughly one year of repair. What has NOT been confirmed is whether the ASUs themselves were destroyed. Shell’s one-year timeline is inconsistent with total ASU loss, which would require four to five years. Veron flagged this honestly and gave you the analysis both ways.

And then he showed you the cascade nobody else sees.

Qatar produces one-third of the world’s helium from the same facility. Helium is irreplaceable in semiconductor fabrication: cooling wafers, purging chambers, detecting leaks. Samsung and SK Hynix import 64.7 percent of their helium from Qatar. Spot prices have doubled. Liquid helium vaporises within 35 to 48 days. Fourteen percent of capacity is permanently damaged.

The LNG trains, the ASUs, and the helium plants all sit on the same rock, fed by the same gas field, accessed through the same strait. One set of missile strikes on March 18 to 19 took out 17 percent of global LNG, threatened one-third of global helium, and exposed a supply chain that runs through five workshops in Germany, France, Japan, Italy, and Wisconsin with three-year lead times and full order books.

This is what Veron understood that the headline analysts missed: the recovery is not constrained by money or political will. It is constrained by vacuum furnaces, aluminium metallurgy, and the physics of brazing at tolerances measured in single-digit Kelvin. You cannot accelerate physics. You cannot surge-produce a 470-tonne cold box. You cannot commission cryogenic equipment in a war zone.

Five companies. Five workshops. Three-year lead times. Full order books. A closed strait. An active war.

That is not a recovery timeline. That is a sentence. Read Veron’s full analysis. It is the most important thing written about this war that does not involve a missile.

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Στη Θεσσαλονίκη το 3ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο για την Ασφάλεια των Δημοσιογράφων https://t.co/RjTKcbhv8r

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Στενά του Ορμούζ: «Οι Ευρωπαίοι ίσως δεχτούν στο τέλος έναν περιφερειακό ρόλο για να αντέξουν την πίεση Τραμπ» https://t.co/4jJqm3Dm4b

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Όταν ο τιτλος ειναι όλη η ειδηση Εφοδος της αστυνομίας στο κελί φυλακισμένου στις φυλακές Μαλανδρίνου Γκρέμισαν την πόρτα γιατί την είχε ασφαλίσει καθώς όχι απλά ήταν κλειδωμένο από την μέσα πλευρά αλλά είχε βάλει και έναν τάκο έτσι ώστε να δυσκολεύει ακόμα περισσότερο την είσοδο

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Thessaloniki waited almost 20 years for its metro. Now it runs without drivers, doubles as an underground museum and takes on the city’s biggest problem. https://t.co/scgZjSR8x5

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Η ενημέρωση σε σταυροδρόμι https://t.co/PwUz9YSJn0

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«Καλλιεργώντας Κριτικούς Αναγνώστες» μια καινοτόμα παρέμβαση στα ελληνικά σχολεία https://t.co/vTHx1IUfhU

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Men, Where Have You Gone? https://t.co/ND7Tdx3Kte