tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19508699.post1736159687887410246..comments2024-03-13T18:55:49.391+00:00Comments on Energy Balance: U.K. to Store Gas Under Irish Sea.Professor Chris Rhodeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12060542089215379056noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19508699.post-51739366453958767162009-01-10T14:43:00.000+00:002009-01-10T14:43:00.000+00:00Hi Dave,no 5 days extra isn't much is it? I am als...Hi Dave,<BR/><BR/>no 5 days extra isn't much is it? I am also scared at how vulnerable this country is and I agree we won't be able to catch up with Germany or Denmark.<BR/><BR/>Interesting that we are pledged to a low-carbon economy for Britain but I suspect that has more to do with curbing our use of depleting oil and gas than global warming.<BR/><BR/>That must have been one hell of an explosion to get a mushroom cloud. As you say, it doesn't have to be an atomic explosion but just a very, very big bang!<BR/><BR/>I guess much of that gas will come as liquid NG, probably from Qatar.<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/><BR/>Chris.Professor Chris Rhodeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12060542089215379056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19508699.post-2092993319043997002009-01-09T11:30:00.000+00:002009-01-09T11:30:00.000+00:00I have got too the point where I bloody despair of...I have got too the point where I bloody despair of our Politicians and the desiccated bean counters of the Treasury. I think they are so stupid that they don't know if they are on this earth or Fullers earth. They remind me of Napoleons comment about the Austrians, “ they always come with too little too late” a time line of five years 600 million pounds investment and what do you get an extra buffer of 5 days. The whole f**king affair is laughable. They need a reality enema. I wonder if any of the idiots have asked the simple question of whether they will be any gas to pump into the caverns when they are finished, or whether the country will be able to pay for the gas if it goes bankrupt. Britain is so far behind the curve that there is simply no way we will be able to catch up with countries like Denmark or Germany. When we had an energy strategy in the 60 we planed for the future. We were being proactive <BR/>I don't know if you know Chris that one of the Patents we picked up for free from the Germans after the last war was the Lurgi process for the gasification of coal. Dr. Bronofski was in charge of the project for the N.C.B. They built a pilot plant at a mine next too ours then they built a 30,000,000 pound production facility at Coleshill. The mine I was working at was chosen to supply the coal and was modernized. I wont go into the details but it was a hell of a lot of money. North Sea Gas came on line a couple of years later and the whole think became so called unprofitable whatever that may mean. They closed the plant down and our mine went with it. In doing so they sealed in 40 years of coal reserves. When you leave the countries energy supply to the world market, when you are a buyer and not a supplier, which has an attention span of perhaps 3 months, you are asking to be shafted. This is nothing more than a piece of reactive nonsense <BR/><BR/>Another point of interest you might ponder Chris, I was in Qatar when the Um Said gas/ urea plant blew up, I was 30 miles away in the desert when it blew up. I might not have seen an Atomic explosion but I have seen a mushroom cloud. The gas was pumped from the Um Bab oil field. Most of the Gas from Qatar now comes from a large field at the north of the peninsula stretching out into the gulf towards Iran, the largest in the world I think. I have no difficulty imagining what would happen if that went up either by accident ( murphys law ) or deliberately. All this investment will do is delay the end by 5 days.Yorkshireminerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03364251607711042067noreply@blogger.com