Scott Tinker
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And if you're gonna get out the SOX and the NOX and the particulates and the mercury and the CO2, each one of those things is a bolt-on system that runs on more energy. So you're lowering your EROI the more you clean up that coal. And it's still useful. It still has a decent return even after all that, but it's expensive because every one of those things isn't just energy, it's money.
And if you're gonna get out the SOX and the NOX and the particulates and the mercury and the CO2, each one of those things is a bolt-on system that runs on more energy. So you're lowering your EROI the more you clean up that coal. And it's still useful. It still has a decent return even after all that, but it's expensive because every one of those things isn't just energy, it's money.
And if you're gonna get out the SOX and the NOX and the particulates and the mercury and the CO2, each one of those things is a bolt-on system that runs on more energy. So you're lowering your EROI the more you clean up that coal. And it's still useful. It still has a decent return even after all that, but it's expensive because every one of those things isn't just energy, it's money.
So now I've taken coal from affordable and reliable to kind of expensive, more expensive and reliable. China doesn't do all those things. Sometimes their scrubbers are on, sometimes they're off. Depends on what their economy is needing and the cost of electricity. We don't do that here. You turn off those here in regulated societies, you get massive fines or go to prison as you should.
So now I've taken coal from affordable and reliable to kind of expensive, more expensive and reliable. China doesn't do all those things. Sometimes their scrubbers are on, sometimes they're off. Depends on what their economy is needing and the cost of electricity. We don't do that here. You turn off those here in regulated societies, you get massive fines or go to prison as you should.
So now I've taken coal from affordable and reliable to kind of expensive, more expensive and reliable. China doesn't do all those things. Sometimes their scrubbers are on, sometimes they're off. Depends on what their economy is needing and the cost of electricity. We don't do that here. You turn off those here in regulated societies, you get massive fines or go to prison as you should.
So that's the nice part about density again, oil a little bit less of those scrubbers, natural gas, you don't need any of that. You don't need CO2 if you wanna remove it, but there's a little bit of particulate in natural gas, not much, not much mercury, a little sulfur. Sometimes there's sulfur gases scrubbed out, but a lot less work needs to be done to make natural gas clean.
So that's the nice part about density again, oil a little bit less of those scrubbers, natural gas, you don't need any of that. You don't need CO2 if you wanna remove it, but there's a little bit of particulate in natural gas, not much, not much mercury, a little sulfur. Sometimes there's sulfur gases scrubbed out, but a lot less work needs to be done to make natural gas clean.
So that's the nice part about density again, oil a little bit less of those scrubbers, natural gas, you don't need any of that. You don't need CO2 if you wanna remove it, but there's a little bit of particulate in natural gas, not much, not much mercury, a little sulfur. Sometimes there's sulfur gases scrubbed out, but a lot less work needs to be done to make natural gas clean.
And we clean it up in our, and we cook with it in our homes. You know, it's not, I don't worry about that. There's some studies that say you should, I'm not. So that's the beauty of energy density.
And we clean it up in our, and we cook with it in our homes. You know, it's not, I don't worry about that. There's some studies that say you should, I'm not. So that's the beauty of energy density.
And we clean it up in our, and we cook with it in our homes. You know, it's not, I don't worry about that. There's some studies that say you should, I'm not. So that's the beauty of energy density.
Depends on what you have to worry about.
Depends on what you have to worry about.
Depends on what you have to worry about.
Looking pretty good.
Looking pretty good.
Looking pretty good.
Looking pretty good if you're cooking with wood. LPG is saving so many lives in this world, replacing wood and charcoal and huts and homes. And I'm not talking a few lives. There are 3 billion people and 2.8 billion people in the world today that cook indoors with solid biomass. And 3 million of them die every year still, Jordan. 3 million people from breathing indoor smoke, particulates.
Looking pretty good if you're cooking with wood. LPG is saving so many lives in this world, replacing wood and charcoal and huts and homes. And I'm not talking a few lives. There are 3 billion people and 2.8 billion people in the world today that cook indoors with solid biomass. And 3 million of them die every year still, Jordan. 3 million people from breathing indoor smoke, particulates.