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…
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.
Escape velocity – are we going to see Emerald city?
Those reading blogs on the future have all asked themselves the same question. Will I see the great (or sometimes horrible) things we futurists predict? Or am I going to die before it comes to happen? Will I stand on…
Microbial Coal Conversion – putting lignite coal to good use
Good ideas are born incredibly frequently and it’s even more astonishing how long they hover around without ever producing any noticeable impact. Most great ideas, that have gone on to change the world, did not do so because the ideas…
Is shale a blessing in disguise for OPEC
How many times have I written about the implications of shale on oil? For an LNG guy I have a strange obsession with that but look at the fundamentals and the picture is clear. Oil is still the big bully…
Was shale a frackin bubble?
Those who have spent the last 10 years in oil and gas were in for the ride of their lifetime. Those who have spent far longer in the industry will look back at the nuttiest 10 years of their entire…
The third reign of life – clean energy from another realm
Most of us will remember from our time at school that life is divided into different reigns. One of them belongs to Bacteria, scientifically called Prokaryotes. They are simple singular cell life forms with no cellular core and RNA swimming…