Robert Howard

[Robert Howard @RobHowardT]

@FMichel50 @ShounenFans @spirituality751 @TheDefiantGhost Your devices are always listening 😉

[Robert Howard @RobHowardT]

@danielmullen @Object_Zero_ Will the oxygen they produce throug ionic reaction with water be an issue for the golal environment? I.e. Do we need tbis on the bottom of the ocean so we can breathe?

[Robert Howard @RobHowardT]

@rcolvile @LoftusSteve The UK north sea is a meture depleted basin. If the UK imports gas. How do we pay for the import without creating an unsustainable trade deficit?

How do we avoid eventually destroys the currency and causing high inflation? Eventually losing imports due to bankruptcy.

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@LoftusSteve Steve, would you please provide a source for your numbers. Hydro is shown as more expensive than onshore wind.

For the past 200+ years hydro was the cheapest source of electricity ever invented. That is why it is used in very energy intensive industries e.g. aluminium smelting

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@pati_marins64 Good luck trying to maintain global trade by sea when every small littoral state can threaten shipping.

If we are not careful global trade will be set back 500 years to before the age of sail opened up global trade. And we know who controls the new land based silk road.

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@pati_marins64 The madness of the two main global powers, both dependent on global trade for their power and economy, promoting technologies that can threaten maritime trade.

There were no lessons learned from the impact of small states like Ukraine and Yemen aquring navel drone technology.

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@ChinainEnglis This has immense geopolitical implications. No diesel for tractors means reduced need for heavy oil imports from the middle east.

US military doctrine of blockading shipping to China will become much less effective. Huge changes in global balance of power outside public notice.

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@hakflo @danfaggella @sudo_silly Please explain what "duck and cover" looks like in the context of ASI's controlling all the technology, and infrastructure on the planet. With access to biotechnology and perhaps nanotechnology.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

[Robert Howard @RobHowardT]

@TRR1_CR @LootCritter @zhao_dashuai Yes, and submarine drones are a rapidly expanding threat to most navies and maritime shipping.

Navy fleets and maritime ships may soon require a halo of defensive drones above and below the water as protection from enemy drones. A nasty, nightmarish development.

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@MurielBlaivePhD @imaMFbird @yanisvaroufakis Please explain the war of 1812 between Britain and the US. When British troops attacked Washington and burnt down the White House.

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@AlekYerbury @aswren Here I disagree with Adam. If you look and biophysical economics I.e. flows of energy, raw materials, food, manufacturing capacity you can see the trend clearly.

European geopolitical strategists correctly predicted the rise of Russia and US in the 19th century.

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@basedlewis @aswren Does anyone understand the target audience for talk of sending troops to Ukraine?

Governments understand the UK military situation. Does the UK public care or understand? What am I missing?

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@basedlewis @aswren I think it was after the Azerbaijan Armenia war that a defence think tank calculated a UK armoured brigade would only last a week if attacked by the limited drones used in that war. The Ukraine war is using orders of magnitude more drones. Rapidly destroying men and equipment.

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@YaoZBird @jcchristopher @chamath Declining US birth rates and constrained immigration will reduce unemployment rate. However, it may be inflationary.

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@MikeGil61338704 The EROI quotes on renewables is not accurate. Almost 20 years ago a detailed analysis on wind turbines showed and Energy Return On Invested of 20:1 for well sited onshore wind. The study included all the energy inputs for the concrete. 40:1 for solar back then.

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@MikeGil61338704 @SRSroccoReport @SantiagoAuFund Perhaps US domestic energy production is mostly fake and low EROI so there is no choice but to import part of China's 4.5 billion metric tons per year of high EROI coal energy as imports.

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@couldasaid @DougChapmanSNP @SSETransmission @SSE @ofgem @nationalgriduk Would you please elaborate in more detail. It would love to learn the error in my reasoning.

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@aeberman12 How much diesel can be produced from that? How much of that is less than API 40?

If 1/3 is NGL, does the rest have an API low enough for diesel production? Does removing the NGL reduce the average API enough for diesel production?

[Robert Howard @RobHowardT]

@aeberman12 Hi Art, slight tangent.
How much Diesel can be produced from domestic US oil production? Approximately 2/3 is API 40+. Assuming 1/3 of light shale oil "total liquids" is not NGL and can be refined, what is the diesel fraction of the remaining light oil? Does anyone know?