Trump planning to lift Biden's LNG pause, increase oil drilling during 1st days in office: report

[Truth Detector]

This is a very interesting and thoughtful post. I’d enjoy discussing this further with you but JPP probably isn’t the best forum to have an intelligent conversation on environmental sustainability because the overwhelming majority of posters on this topic have a political point of view based on arguments from authority and don’t really understand the ecological laws involved and by that I mean the laws of thermodynamics as applied to how energy is transferred and transformed by biological systems.

I have to admit that in a lot of cases I cringe often when the word “sustainability” is used because it’s become a part of MBA jargon that is pretty empty and meaningless but makes you sound like you’re a savy business person with a corporate conscience (which in America is pretty much an oxymoron).

Having said that on the three pillars of environmental sustainability; ecological balance, resource conservation and long-term environmental quality, I am a true subject matter expert on resource conservation with 35 years of experience in the field.

The reason I don’t really care to discuss environmental sustainability here is that it is a subject matter in which part of it is hard science and part of it is social science and most lay folk don’t know where that dividing line is.

End result is the discussion would be distracted by the witless bomb throwers and mudslingers who abound on JPP. Which is why I tend to shy away from discussions on environmental topics on this forum.

I cringe whenever you hacks bloviate about sustainability and man caused global warming. None of which are backed by serious science.

 

[Kurmugeon]

Also, the environmental impact of mining and smelting Thorium ore is a bit less destructive than the same process for Uranium Ore.

Also, the possibilities of Accelerator Remediation of Thorium Waste is higher than the same mass of Uranium Waste.

Also, the ability to stabilize and vitrify Thorium Wastes is easier to achieve than it is for Uranium wastes. (Encase it in various types of glass beads, to make it easy to safely long term store in a Waste Dump like WIPP)

Yes, I worked for a bit in those scientific efforts too.

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[Libhater]

Biden's pausing LNG permits and new plant construction on two plants helped Russia.

Put him in a psychiatric ward, but make room for every other one on his administration panel so he won't get lonely.

 

[The Trump Administration]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1860713901467238428

 

[Goyboy]

He3. Not just Helium. It is a rare isotope of Helium that does not exist at all on the surface of planet earth.

Normal Helium is no use at all in achieving fusion energy.

He3 is produced in the outer few hundred miles of the Sun's photo-sphere, and blows out in fair quantities in the solar wind.

Some of that stream has been intercepted by the surface Regolith of the Moon, for the last few billion years.

Each square KM of the moon, has several kilograms of He3 in the top few centimeters.

If you look at the temperature needed to get to two hydrogen atoms within a distance for a fusion event to occur, and call that 100%. Then the He3-He3 reaction only takes 4% of that temperature to achieve fusion.

The D-D reaction (Deuterium) takes 63%. The D-T reaction take 42%.

( I used to work at the national labs, operating a 40 MJ nuclear reactor. I was the guy who charged and fired the machine over 400 times! )

He3 is fusion the easy way.

The Moon will be the Saudi Oil Fields of the 2040s.

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Lord have mussy @Kurmugeon , I've never seen this side of you. You sound like a real scientist.

 

[Goyboy]

Leftist halfwit thinks he knows how economics works.

Hey, dimwitted wonder dunce, is that why you voted for morons like Joey and Kamalalala?

MTH may know something about the green industry but I don't think he has a grasp on economics.

 

[Into the Night]

It will help and is the correct thing to do.

However, the fossil fuel era is coming to a close.

Fossils aren't used as fuel. Fossils don't burn.

We will use all of the available oil, coal, and natural gas.

Coal is cheap and plentiful. Oil and natural gas are renewable fuels.

Before the infrastructure from the fossil fuel era is gone, we need to use that foundation to build its replacement.

Fossils aren't used as fuel.

I think that means a series of Thorium-Ion power plants,

Thorium is not a renewable fuel. Who are YOU to decide what type of energy everyone buys?

with modern transmission lines to the high electric usage areas,

Transmission lines are already modern.

but also, liquid aire production plants, and synthetic hydrocarbon fuel / lubricant / plastic plants, using atmospheric CO2,

It takes MORE energy to synthesize these fuels than you get by burning them. Further, it's unnecessary. Earth naturally produces hydrocarbon fuels.

close coupled to the nuclear power plants.

All of this has to be built while we still have the plastics, steel, mortar, and semiconductors provided by the Fossil Fuel Era.

Fossils aren't used as fuel. Fossils don't burn.

Building the sustainable infrastructure will take some 40 years, if we work swiftly and stay focused.

There's that Marxist 'we' again! A sustainable electric power already exists in the United States, thanks to the ERIC, the TRIC, and the WRIC. However, the SDTC is notably unable to produce it's own electric power and must import almost all of it (on heavily overloaded lines) from the WRIC.

Must longer if we get distracted by stupid things like huge arrays of less than unity energy gain solar voltaic panels.

You cannot create energy out of nothing. See the 1st law of thermodynamics.

We don't have 40 years left of clean Fossil Fuels,

Fossils aren't used as fuel.

and part of the build up of the sustainable system will need to be done burning the dregs of the available fossil fuels,

Fossils aren't used as fuel.

stuff high in sulfur and nitrates,

Nitrate is not a chemical. Sulfur's effects are generally to lower ignition temperature of some oxidizers when combined with fuel. It's really a lousy fuel in it's own right.

Chemicals such as potassium nitrate or sodium nitrate are fertilizers as well as oxidizers. They are synthesized from potassium carbonate or sodium carbonate in a double exchange reaction.

Other oxidizers, such as potassium chlorate or potassium perchlorate are synthesized using an electrolysis process.

Some of these can also be produced via the Haber-Bosch process, which produces ammonia and reacting lower energy salts with the ammonia.

Better fuels are hydrocarbons. While they CAN be synthesized, it's not necessary since the Earth is a natural Fischer-Tropsche reactor, making the stuff continuously. All we have to do is drill for it.

that will do much damage, before the new systems can begin to take the place of the fossil fuels infrastructure.

The Thorium-Ion is an okay approach, but in time, He3 fusion, and eventually D-T fusion will become practical. Maybe 20 years for He3, and 60 years on for D-T fusion.

Yes, drilling and harvesting the fossil fuels is a good thing.

But not building a long term replacement, while we still can, would be asinine!

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No need for replacement. Hydrocarbon fuel is continuously produced by natural conditions under Earth's surface. All we have to do is drill for it.

Thorium is not a renewable fuel. Hydrocarbons ARE, and they are also a lot cheaper!

 

[Into the Night]

Good luck convincing the petroleum industry to do that. If anything they will be cutting domestic production to prevent prices from falling. Don’t you blow hards pay any attention to the market like a good capitalist should?

You aren't describing capitalism. You are describing an oligarchy. Such attempts have been made before. Capitalism always destroys such oligarchies and prices will fall again.

 

[Into the Night]

Or, they'll have plenty of buyers in Europe since the supply from Russia is largely cut off and many European nations are cutting back on production because they elected Greentards to ruin their countries.

Several nations in Europe are going back to coal.

 

[Into the Night]

Dude, cutting out fossil fuels and going to compounded helium? Helium is very rare as it is. No.
That's likely to run out before fossil fuels do.

Since fossils aren't used as fuel, there is nothing to 'run out' of.

You are correct that helium is rather rare. It's even harder to transport (this tiny little molecule REALLY likes to leak through most any tank!).

The solution is again, capitalism. Let people buy what they want. Don't forget cheap hydrocarbon fuel. This renewable resource is available anywhere you care to drill for it.

 

[Into the Night]

Compared to Uranium, Thorium is 5X more abundant in the earths crust.

That's one of the primary reasons to use it, instead of Uranium.

But there are other reasons, particularly in an Ion Reactor configuration.

The byproducts of Thorium consumption are different than those from Uranium, and the bio-uptake of most of them is considerably smaller, and the type of emission from the waste is higher in photon energy, making it less harmful to humans, in most cases. The emitted ray has much less chance of interacting with an atom inside a person, rather than just passing through.

Higher mu, lower REM. ( REM is Radiation Equivalent Man, a measure not just of energy, rate, and total potential, but of how destructive it is to human being. This is different than the measures of Curies, or Rads. )

The wastes from Thorium, are not harmless, and cannot be treated casually, but they are less likely to cause human harm, than the Uranium stream. The Ur->Cesium stream is particularly deadly.

But building a Thorium Reactor in America, is currently illegal. I know that sounds strange, but, consider the political environment at the time in which that law was made. It was during the peak of Nuclear Bomb Enthusiasm peak during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The Powers that Be, wanted only Ur Reactors, because the spent fuel rods, could be gleaned through, for weapons grade Ur to make Bombs.

That's why we have Nuclear Reactors all over the nation with 7-12 sets of spent fuel rods in cooling ponds. Those are weapon pits, in an emergency.

Thorium and its byproducts, are useless for Bomb Production.

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Oh, you can certainly put thorium in a bomb. It explodes conventionally, but showers the target with radioactive material. It would therefore be considered a nuclear weapon.

 

[Kurmugeon]

Oh, you can certainly put thorium in a bomb. It explodes conventionally, but showers the target with radioactive material. It would therefore be considered a nuclear weapon.

I could explain why Thorium doesn't work for bombs, but then some very serious men would cart me away.

Trust, Thorium isn't good for bombs.

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[ExpressLane]

Good luck convincing the petroleum industry to do that. If anything they will be cutting domestic production to prevent prices from falling. Don’t you blow hards pay any attention to the market like a good capitalist should?

God you sure don't know what you are talking about

 

[ExpressLane]

Thorium-Ion... not Ur Rickover Piles.

There really is a huge difference, both in real-time waste separation and over-all safety.

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what ever that works the best but nuclear is the way to go for sure.

 

[Althea]

Trump planning to lift Biden's LNG pause, increase oil drilling during 1st days in office: report​

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly planning to focus heavily on two policy changes to boost natural [gas] energy production during his first days in office, according to a new report.

As his second-term agenda takes shape, the president-elect is eyeing immediate changes to current policies on liquefied natural gas (LNG) permits and oil and gas drilling leases, sources familiar with the transition plans told Reuters.

President Biden initiated a pause on new LNG export permits in January, a move which has been widely criticized by the oil community and bipartisan lawmakers in the House. The National Association of Manufacturers conducted a study on the ban that found nearly 1 million jobs would be threatened by the LNG pause over the next two decades if the restriction remains in place, Fox News Digital previously reported.

However, Trump reportedly "plans to go strong on the issue" of LNG exports when he assumes office, sources told Reuters.

President-elect Donald Trump reportedly plans to lift President Biden's pause of liquefied natural gas export permits. (Evan Vucci)

The Republican president-elect plans to lift Biden's pause and allow permits for new LNG exports next year, fulfilling a promise he made frequently while on the campaign trail.

Trump will also seek to increase lease sales for drilling along the coast, expedite permit approval, and expand drilling on federal land, the outlet learned.

The latest report comes as several of Biden's climate-focused initiatives appear to be in jeopardy under the incoming Trump administration.

Trump has talked for months about his plans to roll back Biden's green policies, such as the tax credit for electric vehicle purchases. He also plans to withdraw from the Paris climate accord for the second time, expand fracking, and revive the Keystone XL pipeline, which was canceled on Biden's first day in office. ..

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Expanding LNG permits creates more American jobs and helps Europe and hurts Russia.

LMAO

There is no 'pause'.

 

[Althea]

Good luck convincing the petroleum industry to do that. If anything they will be cutting domestic production to prevent prices from falling. Don’t you blow hards pay any attention to the market like a good capitalist should?

The idiot doesn't even realize that there was no 'pause'. A trump judge put it on hold in July.

In other news, I just moved $10k from fixed income into a pipeline company.

Might as well enjoy the ride until trump fucks everything up again.

 

[Into the Night]

Lord have mussy @Kurmugeon , I've never seen this side of you. You sound like a real scientist.

Nah. He just reads stuff from Google.

No theory of science is being discussed here.

 

[ExpressLane]

So with all this assumed over production going on, why are prices so high?

And a lot of Biden,s oil production are from DUCs that were drilled during the Trump administration. At the end of Trump's first administration there were 8,800 DUCs now there are 4,400 DUCs..

 

[Kurmugeon]

what ever that works the best but nuclear is the way to go for sure.

Its the only real option. You could blanket the entire surface of the planet with wind turbines and solar arrays, and it would not be near enough energy.

The second piece of the puzzle, is Transport energy storage. Two good options, than I've seen anyway:

1] Liquid Aire

2] Use nuclear power, and molecular sieves, compressors, and chillers, to take atmospheric CO2, electrolysis it, catalytically combine the now free carbon with Hydrogen from Water, and you have methane.

Use classic petro-refinery cracking and combining plant tech to combine the Methane into butane, then pentane, all the way up the chain to gasoline, diesel or AvGas.

Synthetic Fuel from nuclear power.

I've got a working mock-up of a machine to do just that in my garage. It has made a whole two drops of gasoline. And for now, very inefficiently (though I know a dozen ways to fix that).

If you're worried about CO2 as a green house gas... well, its carbon neutral. What goes out the car's exhaust this week, is back in the fuel tank next week. Round and round, just an energy storage system. No new carbon added.


The Future for Humanity is bright and happy, we just need to embrace it.

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[Into the Night]

I cringe whenever you hacks bloviate about sustainability and man caused global warming. None of which are backed by serious science.

The Church of Global Warming and the Church of Green both deny science and mathematics.

They both advocate arguments on what 'we' (the Marxist 'we') should use for energy sources, rather than letting people simply buy the energy source they want.

The Church of Global Warming ignores the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics and the Stefan-Boltzmann law.
The Church of Green ignores the renewable nature of hydrocarbon based fuels and the plentiful supply of coal.