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Doesn't work with gas pipeline, especially not with undersea ones. They scale down terribly poorly, becoming incredibly expensive to build and operate per bcm/y
by anovikov 2y ago
Doesn't work with gas pipeline, especially not with undersea ones. They scale down terribly poorly, becoming incredibly expensive to build and operate per bcm/y if made thinner/"smaller" to have many of them for redundancy. Also too long, equally well attacked at any point, thus impossible to defend, and impossible to fix once attacked (saltwater getting inside -> pipes are wrecked after a few days, long before they can be sealed and drained).
- voytec 2y agoMy point is that you don't need gas specifically, but energy. Find ways to get energy without dependency on gas if the source is unstable.
- anovikov 2y agoThat's true. We should depend less on things that are so vulnerable. LNG is partially a solution though - a liquefaction or regasification terminal is easier to protect, and defence of shipping at sea is a well-debugged thing since WWI.
- CRConrad 2y ago> defence of shipping at sea is a well-debugged thing since WWI. When (presumably) the Royal Navy was in charge of it. Since WW2 it's been the US one that's handled it, but... Some pundits *cough*PeterZeihan*cough* have been saying for a while now that America is withdrawing from the role of World Police.
- nradov 2y agoYou need gas specifically if you want to have a chemicals industry that uses natural gas as a feedstock. https://cen.acs.org/business/Germanys-chemical-industry-survive-gas/101/i19 https://cen.acs.org/business/Germanys-chemical-industry-surv...