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In 1991 I had my second tour as a United Nations soldier in Syria…
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Are human rights treaties a scam
Few events have shaped human history like the French Revolution…
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The day after Globalisation
In 1983, at the height of the Cold War, the world was exposed…
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The slow death of the Cold War
In 1999, just one year shy of the Millennium, I lived in Paris.…
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Surviving Idiocracy
My twenties were dominated by traveling. Not to your next Spring Break you…
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How idiots make it to the top
I lived in Middle Eastern countries for many years. Those were…
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Idiots – the nature of the beast
In the 2006 movie Idiocracy, the American filmmaker Mike Judge…
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Are you having fun yet
In the 2008 film Hurt Locker, Jeremy Renner plays a Staff Sergeant…
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Come with me if you wanna live …
The last couple of weeks were a real rollercoaster. When I went…
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The industrial revival of North America
Last week we have seen that COVID-19 might have been the wake-up…
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Better than pie in the sky – Venus
Thanks for all the feedback I got on this space series so far.…
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The problem with fueling rockets
The last few years have gotten us in touch with new, radical…
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Russia is trying to save what cannot be saved
I love quotes and of all quotes, those from Nicollo Machiavelli…
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Cherrypicking reference periods
2011 a new mountain pass was discovered in the Lomseggen mountains…
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Is the current oil market mayhem beneficial for shale
Wow, the last couple of weeks have been on the very wild side…
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Why the world needs a Trump
The last decade has seen a veritable explosion of new superhero…
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The Compliance Industrial Complex
Whoever has been to South Africa and really engaged up close…
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LNG for free – who can take it?
Ever since the very first cargo of LNG was shipped a little more…
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Will the OPEC++ oil deal do any good?
If you are an oil and gas professional I want you to make a little…
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Border Adjustment Tax – Control Knob for Free Trade
Last week we saw that unchecked free trade leads into the abyss…
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How free shall trade ever be
In nature, it often happens that two organisms form a mutually…
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How COVID-19 will reshape energy
In 1347, a ship of the Genoese merchant fleet arrived in Messina…
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The 5th Climate wave
Years ago, a friend of mine wanted to perform a financial transaction…
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A flawed world economy laid bare by COVID-19
In 1955, the then-North Korean leader Kim Il Sung gave a speech.…
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Show me – the problem with evidence
On May 8th, 1978, the Austrian/Italian Reinhold Messner and his…
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There is (an old) a new sow in the village …
In the beginning - there was light. Many creation myths have…
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Helios – The weather machine in the sky
My hometown Vienna currently experiences the coldest time of…
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The first LNG Market Maker
Late in 2008, the foundational agreements for the GATE terminal…
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Terra Methanum – the methane machine
In early summer 2019, the scientific world was elated. They thought…
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Is wine a good proxy for temperature changes
To all those reading my articles for the first time, a word of…
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The wonderful world of methane 2
So, what will the new breed of methanopreneurs be hatching under…
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The wonderful world of methane 1
Another year comes to a close. We all have a good hard look back…
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Europe – from LNG’s killing fields to its innovation hub
During the 1950ies, the energy world started to understand that…
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The LNG seesaw is out of whack
In part 2 of this series, I have described the events that have…
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LNG – Banishment from paradise
Anyone studying the history of humankind from its beginnings…
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The original sin of LNG
Every business person - secretly - dreams of controlling a monopoly.…
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LNG – The nature of the beast
The greatest enemy that any human ever faces lies within oneself.…
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Gas Rails – The next level of LNG distribution
Who invented railways? Easy, you say. It was the Brits when the…
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Life after reliable energy
In April 2009, the History Channel aired the Pilot for the series…
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The smallest LNG lobbying organisation does the heavy lifting to change excise taxes in Austria
The year is 2019 A.D. The energy world is entirely occupied by…
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A bigger planet – Fossil free transport
In 1873, Jules Verne published his most acclaimed novel. “Around…
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Electric Anarchy – Life without fossil fuels
Imagine you had demanded world leaders 10 years ago to stop using…
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The Holy Church of Climatology
In May 1969, almost exactly 50 years ago, the Soviet space program…
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The gas of life and the climate
I was a bookish child. While others honed their skills on the…
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Is it smart for the US to export LNG
Oscar Wilde once observed that there are two tragedies in life:
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