Oil Farming
Heribert Hoover is one of the most misunderstood presidents of the US ever. His presidential term was overshadowed by the fallout of the world economic crisis as he took the reigns of the country right after the fateful year 1928.…
Category Terra Methanum
They call it a pollutant. A “super greenhouse gas.” The devil’s own flatulence. But methane isn’t some demonic vapor rising from the pits of industrial sin — it’s the earth’s own perfume. A geological gift, not a biological accident. Forged beneath the crust, odorless, clean, and ready for duty.
Methane is the quiet workhorse of civilization. It burns without fanfare, leaves almost nothing behind, and thrives where other fuels fear to go — from the densest city grid to the most remote outpost. And when liquefied into LNG, it becomes the true heir to oil: mobile, dense, global.
This section reclaims the narrative. It’s not about emissions hysteria or policy games — it’s about restoring respect for the planet’s most elegant molecule. If there’s a future worth having, methane’s in it — not as a problem, but as a solution everyone’s too ideological to notice.
The end of effortless oil
German literature knows the expression “Schlaraffenland”. A rough and dirty translation into English would be “the land of milk and honey”. German literature and fairy tales used it to describe a fictional land. Everything exists in excess in this land. …
Who will pull the curtain on the first gas-electric 18 wheeler/excavator/locomotive
Lads, it’s crazy. I have always asked myself why there is so much diesel-electric but there is so little gas-electric. Ever since I have discovered the great potential of LNG (CNG) as fuel at least. Do you need an economic…
Is LNG more expensive than pipeline gas?
This is my last post for this year as I go into Christmas recess. I will be back on January 9th, 2017 with tons of fresh analysis poured onto the fabric of global energy. It’s going to be a fantastic…
Distributed electricity Generation with LNG
This blog post was written a long time ago and it was sort of sitting on my computer all this time. As I was asked how LNG works for a small flare to LNG to power project, I undug it,…
Methane 3.0 – or should we say LMG
After wood, coal, oil, and its derivatives, it’s methane gas that will rule the energy world. If you need reasons why this is so, you are a first-time visitor to this blog. Piece of advice: clean your schedule for the…
We must suffer – from here until Methanopolis coming
After the collapse of communism in 1989, Fukuyama famously predicted the end of history. His words were some of the most egregious blunders in the predicting business as from where I am standing, history is currently making large strides. It’s…
City farming or the hanging gardens of Methanopolis
A couple of years ago (I don’t remember the precise year) I read an article on hydroponic farming and also that no more than the area of Vermont would suffice to feed the world if it would be farmed to…
Forget Goldilocks – we won’t need terraforming
It’s a part of popular science today. One day the human race would leave planet Earth and go to other places and to make them a little more palatable to our balmy needs, we would terraform those places. There are…
World – meet Methanumorphosis
It’s almost 9 years ago I was asked to perform an in-company introductory course on LNG for the employees of the company I worked for at the time. It was a short 3-hour affair and I threw in everything I…