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Why are North American natural gas prices so much lower than rest of world?

ByRod Adams

…/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/ElectricPower/8935475 Note the sensitivity of gas prices to nuclear output, and the fact that $8 gas was just seen in New England. Of all Llindsey’s arguments, I found the stuff about gas produced from oil wells to be most (potentially) compelling. In a recent post at the ANS Nuclear Cafe, I listed four reasons why current low gas prices won’t last. They are 1) the fact that oil costs ~6 times what gas does on an energ…

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Natural gas burners file suit challenging fairness of New York Zero Emission Credts

ByRod Adams

…prices below the level necessary to keep some nuclear plants operating. If gas prices rise faster than currently expected by most market observers, energy prices will quickly rise to levels that are sufficient to keep nuclear plants operating. NYSDPS recognized and accounted for this possibility when it designed the ZEC; the price for the ZEC phases down gradually once prices exceed a certain level and disappears completely once prices hit a secon…

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Smoking gun – German president of Environmental Protection Agency touts natural gas instead of nuclear

ByRod Adams

…another piece of evidence for my assertion that Flasbarth is, in effect, a natural gas salesman. In Germany, that is equivalent to being a strong advocate for additional profits for Gazprom, Germany’s largest gas supplier. Flasbarth also rebutted suggestions that Germany’s nuclear phase-out could increase its greenhouse gas emissions, which it plans to cut 40% by 2020. Stephan Kohler, head of the German Energy Agency, has criticised the phase-out,…

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Shale gas – boom, bubble, financial manipulation or smoking gun attack on competition?

ByRod Adams

…gun in a somewhat convoluted way. The article suggest that the low natural gas prices that have prevailed in North America during the period from mid 2008-2013 have been partially due to financial manipulation. Here is a sample quote: She explores both of these findings and their implications in a new report, “Shale and Wall Street: Was the Decline in Natural Gas Price Orchestrated,” which was released in February. Rogers reveals how Wall Street d…

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FERC Proposal Supporting Coal And Nuclear Prompts Howls From Gas, Wind, Solar, Antinuclear

ByRod Adams

…store as electricity > Here is a graph of the monthly variation in natural gas prices for the past 20 years at the most commonly cited trading point in the U.S.[showing large gas, not electricity, price variations] Am I the only one who sees these natural (gas, and oil, coal, and uranium) supply/demand price variations as being similar to the natural variations in wind and solar supply (at earth surface)? Natural phenomena we should be adapting to…

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Saving the Environment from Environmentalism

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…ine desert area . 2) Existing natural gas pipeline infrastructure: Natural Gas Natural gas supply for ISEGS would connect to the Kern River Gas Transmission Company (KRGT) pipeline about 0.5 miles north of the Ivanpah 3 site. Therefore, only new feeder lines were needed instead of an entire new pipeline system. 3) Proximity of SCE 115kV transmissions lines also played a part in the decision where to site Ivanpah. http://www.energy.ca.gov/sitingcas…

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Why are nuclear plants losing money at an astonishing rate?

ByRod Adams

…wrote. The temporary effect of reducing gas burn and driving down natural gas prices in the here and now versus is what is driving both coal and nuclear out of the market. Coal plant shutdowns are less permanent than nuclear plant shutdowns, but they still do not allow for immediate return to operation in the case of market price spikes when competitive supply destruction goes too far and leads to a supply/demand imbalance that favors suppliers….

Professional Anti-Nuclear Activists Using San Bruno Fire-Inspired Concerns About Natural Gas Pipelines Against the Indian Point Nuclear Plant

ByRod Adams

…e is true. They’re complete morons as this example proves yet again. Jerry Natural gas is increasingly used synonymous with “renewable”. A gas that comes out of the ground in some places, that carries the name “natural“… it must be just as infinite a resource as water – that is the illusion that Greenpeace et al want us to believe in. Yet natural gas is less “natural” and more “gas” like in “gasoline”: it’s a fossil fuel, is found along with oil…

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Combine domestic coal with nuclear energy to make oil

ByRod Adams

…fuel price numbers normalized to a consistent unit of measure: FUEL Market Price Price per MMBTU coal $40 per ton $1.80 natural gas $2.50 per 1000 cubic feet $2.50 oil $120 per barrel $21.00 diesel fuel $4.00 per gallon $30.00 commercial nuclear fuel 0.5 cents per kw-hr $0.65 NOTE: MMBTU = million BTU (M – Thousand, MM is thousand x thousand) My pitch to the coal industry would be to use cheap, clean nuclear heat to convert H2O and their carbon ri…

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Naval Reactors should be empowered to show the way – again

ByRod Adams

…keep producing its wonderful, newly accessible treasure troves of oil and natural gas but not fritter away that resource in a burst of short-lived prosperity akin to the UK’s short, 20-year “dash for gas”. That dash, by the way, is coming to an end as North Sea abundance peters out. If he accepts the modest proposal the President would make a big impact on our ability to reduce the risk of climate change and in building the prosperity that enable…

This optimistic – scary to multinational petroleum interests – pair of graphs were on the last slide in a March 1956 presentation by M. King Hubbert to the American Petroleum Institute
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Trump’s Energy Policy Is Scary To Multinational Petroleum Interests

ByRod Adams

…energy from actinides like uranium, plutonium and thorium, prices for oil, natural gas, and coal would be several times lower than they are today. It is often in the interest of existing suppliers to suggest and support rules that slow or stop their competitors. The most egregious examples of these anticompetitive actions often include grandfather clauses that exempts the existing suppliers from the most costly provisions of new regulations. As pa…

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I do not hate oil companies; I hate their business model and the way they dismiss nuclear energy

ByRod Adams

…rade of politicians promising energy independence, and the rapid run up in natural gas and liquid petroleum prices in the period from 2005-2008 – we saw those events through very different lenses of education and personal experience. We run in different crowds and have different values; that have also had an influence on our perspective. Hofmeister most likely started off in roughly the same middle income economic status as I did; he mentions that…

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