Good thing the world has quit using coal.

 

A very interesting article about the origin of coal on Earth:

Why was most of the Earth’s coal made all at once?



It wasn’t because fungi couldn’t break down early trees, study argues.​

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...oil-executive-oligarch-mikhail-rogachev-dead/
Former Russian oil executive found dead after ‘fall’
Mikhail Rogachev is the latest of nearly a dozen Russian energy executives to die in mysterious circumstances over the past two years

A former Russian oil executive has been found dead after apparently falling from the window of his Moscow flat...

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-n...oil-executive-oligarch-mikhail-rogachev-dead/
Former Russian oil executive found dead after ‘fall’
Mikhail Rogachev is the latest of nearly a dozen Russian energy executives to die in mysterious circumstances over the past two years

A former Russian oil executive has been found dead after apparently falling from the window of his Moscow flat...

If I were a Russian oligarch, I'd board up all my windows.

 

If I were a Russian oligarch, I'd board up all my windows.

It won't protect you from "Sudden Russian Death Syndrome"

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/russian-tycoons-body-found-putin-33931455

His relatives insisted there were no signs that he was suicidal and he was in a “good mood” shortly before his death. His body was found in the courtyard of his tenth floor flat by an SVR employee linked to a former Russian spymaster. He was the personal driver of Sergei Vinokurov, ex-deputy director of the foreign intelligence service. The SVR operative said he had been walking his boss’s dog when he saw the body.

 

If I were a Russian oligarch, I'd board up all my windows.

But then the claustrophobia will set in and drive you to shoot yourself in the back of the head three times.

 

Sorry for the paywall.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/a...energy-transition-more-than-we-d-like-to-admi

How's that transition going???

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/busines...power-fall-zero-miliband-prepare-cut-gas-use/

"Neso, the UK’s National Energy System Operator, which runs the grid, expects the UK to have its first periods of complete decarbonisation, when no gas is needed, in 2025."

LOL.

 

drill baby drill...! need some dinosaurs in my car tank...

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/busines...power-fall-zero-miliband-prepare-cut-gas-use/

"Neso, the UK’s National Energy System Operator, which runs the grid, expects the UK to have its first periods of complete decarbonisation, when no gas is needed, in 2025."

LOL.

It's hilarious that politicians pat themselves on the back and make all these pledges and agreements, as if they have any authority over any aspect of it, or any responsibility when their predictions fall flat. Where is the punishment mechanism? Meanwhile reality marches on, blithely unconcerned.

 

Yawn.

 

It won't protect you from "Sudden Russian Death Syndrome"

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/top-russian-ballet-star-who-34131442

 

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/top-russian-ballet-star-who-34131442

"Ruled a natural death, after all gravity is a part of nature right?"

 

"Ruled a natural death, after all gravity is a part of nature right?"

Accidental. I heard he overdosed on concrete.

 

Interesting story ... but what's its relation to "Peak Oil" ?

 

but what's its relation to "Peak Oil" ?

I was replying to a previous, related, @nsaspook post.

Edit: I should have just replied, "Scroll up."

 

The "hydrogen economy" was always a grifting fraud.

One day, we'll realize the entire green energy economy is also a huge grifting fraud.

How many will have to die before we get there? That is the question.

 

The "hydrogen economy" was always a grifting fraud.

One day, we'll realize the entire green energy economy is also a huge grifting fraud.

How many will have to die before we get there? That is the question.

https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/hydrogen-as-fuel.70001/post-486293

That debate, is a settled issue as I stated back then.

 

Having worked with hydrogen and its foibles I have no desire to use it for fuel. Unlike most gases, when a leak occurs, it can and will autoignite without any other source of ignition. Much like an alcohol fire, it is almost invisible and hard to detect. You can douse it with water, but as long as it is leaking it has its own source of ignition. Which requires some special engineering as to shutoff and high temperature materials.

 

Having worked with hydrogen and its foibles I have no desire to use it for fuel. Unlike most gases, when a leak occurs, it can and will autoignite without any other source of ignition. Much like an alcohol fire, it is almost invisible and hard to detect. You can douse it with water, but as long as it is leaking it has its own source of ignition. Which requires some special engineering as to shutoff and high temperature materials.

I haven't worked with hydrogen very much, but when I have I've never had it autoignite. Even when it was in a stochiometric mix with oxygen, I had to provide an ignition event. At normal temp and pressure, the autoignition temperature is something like 500 °C. which is considerably higher than things like isopropyl alcohol, butane, acetylene, or propane.