Chris Pedersen

Primarily focused on natural gas/LNG. Also interested in oil, coal, nuclear, renewables, batteries, energy policy, energy poverty, int'l affairs, geopolitics.

[Sulekha Tripathi @sulekhat95]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 27-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

MACRON MEETING ALTMAN IN PARIS

The guy with the most spare nuclear capacity in the world just sat down with the guy who says he needs the most of it.

A friend sent me this pic he took in Paris. It happened two hours ago.

We can guess what this meeting is for: @sama wants French nuclear energy, and/or @EmmanuelMacron wants to sell it.

France has one of the worst-performing nuclear fleets in the world, wasting enough power each year to power at least two of Sam's proposed 5GW "Stargate" superclusters.

French nuclear costs about €60 per MWh to produce versus $30 in the USA. Same reactor technology! Poor reactor uptime explains most of the difference.

How does France waste its nuclear?

- Runs many plants on a yearly refueling cycle; global standard is 1.5-2 years l

- Takes two months to refuel. In the USA we do it in 3 weeks on the same reactor type.

- Tons of random breakdowns and reactor halts. Indicates poor incentives for high performance.

- No reactor uprates. Their reactors could make 15% more power for little extra cost

- Shut down a great nuclear plant in 2021 just to amuse the greens and the Germans

- Frequently turn down the nuclear plants to make money for fossil plants and renewables; insane practice

- Insane and destructive regulatory practices from the regulator being captured by anti-nuclear forces. Should revert to the US NRC standards which are plenty strict.

[Stephen Stapczynski @SStapczynski]

CHINA WILL IMPOSE A TARIFF ON US LNG AND OTHER COMMODITIES 🇨🇳🚨

⚠️ The country will impose a 15% tariff on LNG and coal imported from the US, as well as a 10% tariff on oil
🇺🇸 The move is in retaliation to US measures against China

[Chris Pedersen @pedersen18]

Natural-gas drillers are looking ahead to new export hubs and easier regulations under the coming Trump presidency https://t.co/M6oj5PTInm

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

Evergreen tweet

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Bitcoin mining is the poster child for environmental irresponsibility & reckless disregard for human health, climate & energy security

Should be banned

Bitcoin miner purchases 112-MW North Texas wind farm to take it off grid and use it for coin mining
https://t.co/eAj5RKvMoH

[Alessandro Palombo @thealepalombo]

I'm Italian.

Over the years, it's been painful seeing Europe’s demise:

1960 - EU was 36% of global GDP
2008 - US GDP surpassed EU
Today - US economy 50% larger than EU

But why such a decline and is there any hope?

Here's everything you need to know about the fall of Europe:

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

As Markus Krebber went viral by begging for power plants on LinkedIn, I received these ominous texts from a Dutch power expert, half a bottle of wine deep and despairing for his country and continent.

Read it and you'll see why.

Europe may be lost barring a dramatic awakening.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

This is the only known footage to exist of the incredibly rare box jellyfish Chirodectes maculatus, encountered off the coast of Papua New Guinea.

📽: Scuba Ventures

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

10 Shocking Stories the Media Buried Today

#10 - Joe Rogan Goes Quiet as Dr. Casey Means Drops a Series of Disturbing Health Stats

• “74% of Americans are overweight or obese.”

• “Young adult cancers are going up 79% in the last 10 years.”

• “25% of men, now, under 40 have erectile dysfunction.”

• “Alzheimer's and dementia are going through the roof.”

• “Young adult dementias have increased, like, three times since 2012. So early onset dementias.”

• “One in two Americans are expected to have cancer in their lifetime now, one in two.”

• “One in 36 children has autism now, in the United States. That was one in 150 in the year 2000.”

• “In California, where I live, [Autism rates are] one in 22. One in 22 with a lifetime neurodevelopmental disorder.”

• “Infertility going up 1% per year.”

• “77% of young Americans can't serve in the military because of obesity or drug abuse.”

• “Autoimmune diseases. Some studies are saying they're going up 13% per year.”

• “Heart disease, which is almost totally preventable, is the leading cause of death in the United States, killing around 800,000 people per year.”

“It's basically like all of us are a little bit dead while we're alive,” @CaseyMeansMD said.

(See more revealing stories below)

[Richard Meyer @RichardMeyerDC]

Wind and solar are among the fastest growing energy sources in decades.

Then I wondered, what would it look like if I included U.S. shale gas?

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

3 out of 5 students now attending a postsecondary program are female.

[Stephen Stapczynski @SStapczynski]

China is expected to leapfrog France and the US as the top source of atomic power. And that’s not all

“China likely stands 10 to 15 years ahead of the US in its ability to deploy fourth-generation nuclear reactors at scale”

☢️ ♥️ 🇨🇳

https://t.co/zCSGi7U814

[Stephen Stapczynski @SStapczynski]

Global LNG demand outlook changes drastically depending on pace of energy transition, says BP report
🚢 🤷‍♂️

📈 LNG trade set to nearly DOUBLE by 2050 under “current trajectory,” driven by demand from emerging nations
📉 In contrast, trade peaks in 2030 in a net-zero scenario

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

If you enjoy this thread, please share it, and don't forget to check out my profile @wolfofx for a wealth of fascinating posts daily. ♥️

https://t.co/TsZjs3jfwN

[CoffeeWithTheClassics @CoffeewClassics]

Dostoevsky understood people so well, it's ridiculous:

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

CHART OF THE DAY: The annual @EnergyInstitute 'Statistical Review of World Energy' is out.

Among other things, it shows that global coal consumption hit an all-time high in 2023, boosted by China and India.

Does anyone remember the #COP26 slogan of "consign coal to history"?

[Neel Parekh @NeelBParekh]

I just hiked for 9 grueling days to Mt Everest.

I’m a desk jockey business owner with no prior hiking experience and only trained for 3 weeks.

If Everest Basecamp has ever been on your bucket list, bookmark this thread.

Here’s the story and everything you need to know👇

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

🇨🇳 China's life expectancy

1961: 40 years

2021: 78 years