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washing rule bill billions to be made out to pub documentary, deep sea greed, stats, june 7th on t w. the these 3, let us steering up the world of energy. d l n g o energy exports, l n g o n g n g liquefied natural gas as hailed us the magic solution to lots of our problems in europe. that's getting much less gas from russia suppose to keep the lights on in asia. it's supposed to do away with 30 calls, and then the west coast time, the strain the where most of the stuff is coming from. it's supposed to make a lot of people, a lot of money. all these places are frantically bolstering the infrastructure to ship ever larger amounts of liquid gas around the world. but is this really

a good idea of the 1923 british scientist, michael sarah. the experimented with different guesses, to discover that when he called and compressed them by turns liquids. today we use essentially the same process to make l n g. which yield natural gas. so mainly me thing to about minus 160 degrees celsius. that's when it becomes liquids and $600.00 times small and volume. that makes it possible to ship and trade it overseas. the substitute for sure. when you want to transport gas across the long distance east. this is answer few cobalt researches, natural gas markets. if you want to transport natural gas from say, train, yeah, which of $520.00 to very long. i've been in 1969 the need find find the became the 1st ship to deliver ellen g across the atlantic. today, more than 610 coast carry the stuff around the world. trade volumes had been

growing steadily over the last few decades and then in 2022 and indeed took center stage. and the russian invasion of ukraine is underway. russia's full scale invasion of ukraine. russia invaded ukraine. russia is shutting down gas supplies a complete hold to the flow of natural gas. as a response to economic sanctions from the west, russia south, it's main pipeline and delivering natural gas to europe. europe, which at that time, good 40 percent off, it's natural gas through pipelines from russia was scrambling to find new supplies . and so it was suddenly in the market for more. and then g, d o n g, is that these fixing the so she's getting the basic key retiring take away. so it is useful so you won't be as, as being so kind of saves you as to what went on europe starts with building more info to him and those elements coastline. this is where the tank of stocks the energy gets read. yes,

a fights and then fits into the local network in the us. now the world's biggest exports on spots of building will export terminals. this is where the natural gas gets liquefied and been loaded onto ships. but the one you crane is really only half the story behind the current l. n g be the biggest demand actually lies in asia, china and india in particular. and so for the, expanding the input infrastructure to secure enough energy for the growing economy . this map shows all those and to determine those that are already operating, those that are under construction and those that have been proposed. there are enough projects in development to triple total export capacity with energy and increase effective work capacity by 2 thirds. this is rosanne sky. he's a research for global energy monitor of the n g o which compiled the map. probably not all of that is going to be built. but even if just some of that gets built,

it's very tough. he sees huge. this is absolutely key jacob, which begs the question, what does it mean for global warming? there's been this assumption that transporting liquefied natural gas and these must have congress ships, is extremely low emissions. this is pull balcony chemical engineer who measures the gas industries, methane emissions. and i think with just understanding in the last couple of years that maybe does not quite say true. here's the thing. when you burn natural gas in the power station, it admits only half as much c o 2 as cold. that's great, but it ignores what happened before on the way to the power station and for n g. and that's a pretty long way. you 1st have to get natural gas out of the ground, then turn it into a l. n g at liquefaction plant, then ship it where it needs to go from thousands of kilometers away, then turn it back into a gas and only then can you bring it in the power station. all these steps use energy. for example, the initial cooling of the gas and the fueling of the ship. this,

that c o 2 emissions. to make matters worse, something else might be escaping at every step of the way. the same big problem with me by dimensions is that it's a very power greenhouse gas. you only need very small amounts of methane emissions to have a big time. in fact, that's because it initially traps more heat than c o 2. 20 is off. that's been released me things woman power still move in a t times. great. so the problem is we still don't really know how much of this stuff is escaping along the l n. g supply chain or so companies haven't really been required to measure that, right? or emissions side, which is that really has the dates and so res, relatively recently, when we start to expand academics in other other organizations, we started getting on the ships to go and collect some of the methane emissions space. and so we've got maybe sort of 5 percent of the way into it and we need to me to do the rest of the 95 percent to really get a better understanding of the issues. one of his recent studies, for example,

i found more me thing than previously, thoughts slipped through analogy, ships engines. the thing is this, if maintain emissions along the supply chain and turn out to be quite high. and then these climate benefits of other fossil fuels shrinks. a recent study even claims it's worse for the climate than digging up and burning cold enough to set low. this hasn't been peer reviewed yet. and many similar studies conclude. and then g is still the cleaner way of generating power. the, i mean, these are the secondary questions that is a guy. so it's, but is it good enough? and the answer is, invariably, no, is not good enough to me on time to talk it's. it's hard to see how you can keep building, always elegy infrastructure and you're calling because at the same time, we reached out to 2 energy industry groups to he a value on this, the center for island g and the international group of liquefied guessing process. the 1st never go back to us,

but the 2nd degree to an interview. so how do they bring together our climate goals and more? n g is not symmetric contradiction. if you go to the fact that the gas and energy can elton the energy transition, the industry has long argued that natural gas is vital in lowering emissions by replacing coal, particularly in asia where it's still used widely. of course, at the end, if you want to reach the need 0, need to, to, to know some move away from chain this as an fuse and natural gas is secure. but yes, for the medium of them, you know, i'm telling you that the switch is very important. the risk of building more fossil fuel infrastructure of any kind. so is that we look in the emissions for decades. and then g terminals have a life span of 20 years or more delta, right? so it's also often signed long term supply contracts guaranteeing that one for

decades. if we make a massive investments right now, such that it makes continuing, these fossil fuels right, cheaper, more, cheaper than other investments, then we have to be really careful about that. so energy is climate credentials of questionable, at the very least to be fair, climate action hasn't really been that the top of the old and gas industries agenda . one thing has though, money look at discharge. the critics, however, g trade will evolve until the 25th, the assuming governments will do what they promise to protect the climates. now this is the energy infrastructure already in place, and this is the one we're currently building more than we actually need. so what's going to happen with these new terminals? there's the risk that's if we do me stay on track to meeting our climate goals. deluxe, i've used facilities in new facilities to be built, not use much, maybe left a strange analysis. that means they'd shut down before they made back the money. it

cost to build the that could mean billions of investor and government money down the drain. again, we put this to the industry groups between you depends on your cdn energy demand ring and it's very odd so pretty we should have a page on the move. so t $65.00. before that we energy release the needed even piece, the global gas demand is decreasing. so the silver capacity. we don't make any a scenarios of predictions at the jr idea now, but i would say there is a risk, but that should be the needed. and that's the problem was predictions, this is only one scenario with which governments live up to the excitement pledges . gas companies might see a different future media. they're betting that this won't happen after all. and probably that by having the infrastructure in place by growing the market, there will be some tend to sustain themselves. a full cost as a full cost is

a full cost. this one from show predicts l. n. g. the mines, the blue line to keep growing. you christian, east coast, east demet and green twin both, both the company changed. and this is the question, the 3 which is really improved. and so i and assuming you forecast of the names. but though i have used to take that feed because think that's and there's another reason for specifically building more input terminals in sheet info, skip a seat as well. so again, these 1240 tens of security of subtract because it can be done as soon as you need us to be very careful because 6 that means how much financial sense it makes takes a backseat to you. it's more about having the infrastructure in place. if other supplies dry up, like a type of in europe with restaurants, pipeline gas so well, so that leave us, should we push ahead with the lindsey expansion or pump the brakes? well, that's a tricky question. energy does have its benefits. it's flexible versus tile and

fairly cheap bucks. it also raises 2 major concerns. firstly, we need to make a 100 percent. sure. it's actually better for the climates than other fossil fuels . what we're renting a stay is emissions. we need to prove it. if it isn't, we need to work out how we can drive in down because it seems that all of the, the fossil fuel and categories, it seems that energy may well be. this is the last one that we, that we rely on. and secondly, we need to get a better idea how much energy we really need and for how long the alternative self director year we're seeing new was become cheaper and cheaper, easier to build. and it's clear that we send the power sector that renewables could be a great replacement from all of this potential guesstimate when all are said and done . and in g remains of fossil fuel. if we're serious about slowing climate change,

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