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The last couple of weeks were a real rollercoaster. When I went…


The industrial revival of North America
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Better than pie in the sky – Venus
Thanks for all the feedback I got on this space series so far.…


The problem with fuelling rockets
The last few years have gotten us in touch with new, radical…

Russia is trying to save what cannot be saved
I love quotes and of all quotes, those from Nicollo Machiavelli…

Cherrypicking reference periods
2011 a new mountain pass was discovered in the Lomseggen mountains…

Is the current oil market mayhem beneficial for shale
Wow, the last couple of weeks have been on the very wild side…

Why the world needs a Trump
The last decade has seen a veritable explosion of new superhero…

The Compliance Industrial Complex
Whoever has been to South Africa and really engaged up close…

LNG for free – who can take it?
Ever since the very first cargo of LNG was shipped a little more…

Will the OPEC++ oil deal do any good?
If you are an oil and gas professional I want you to make a little…

Border Adjustment Tax – Control Knob for Free Trade
Last week we saw that unchecked free trade leads into the abyss…

How free shall trade ever be
In nature, it often happens that two organisms form a mutually…

How COVID-19 will reshape energy
In 1347, a ship of the Genoese merchant fleet arrived in Messina…


The 5th Climate wave
Years ago, a friend of mine wanted to perform a financial transaction…

A flawed world economy laid bare by COVID-19
In 1955, the then North Korean leader Kim Il Sung gave a speech.…

Show me – the problem with evidence
On May 8th, 1978, the Austrian/Italian Reinhold Messner and his…


There is (an old) a new sow in the village …
In the beginning - there was light. Many creation myths have…


Helios – The weather machine in the sky
My hometown Vienna currently experiences the coldest time of…

The first LNG Market Maker
Late in 2008, the foundational agreements for the GATE terminal…

Terra Methanum – the methane machine
In early summer 2019, the scientific world was elated. They thought…

Is wine a good proxy for temperature changes
To all those reading my articles for the first time, a word of…

The wonderful world of methane 2
So, what will the new breed of methanopreneurs be hatching under…

The wonderful world of methane 1
Another year comes to a close. We all have a good hard look back…

Europe – from LNG’s killing fields to its innovation hub
During the 1950ies, the energy world started to understand that…

The LNG seesaw is out of whack
In part 2 of this series, I have described the events that have…

LNG – Banishment from paradise
Anyone studying the history of humankind from its beginnings…

The original sin of LNG
Every business person - secretly - dreams of controlling a monopoly.…

LNG – The nature of the beast
The greatest enemy that any human ever faces lies within oneself.…

Gas Rails – The next level of LNG distribution
Who invented railways? Easy, you say. It's the Brits when the…

Life after reliable energy
In April 2009, the History channel aired the Pilot for the series…

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 entierly occupied by…

A bigger planet – Fossil free transport
In 1873, Jules Verne published his most acclaimed novel. “Around…

Electric Anarchy – Life without fossil fuels
Imagine you had demanded world leaders 10 years ago to stop using…





The Holy Church of Climatology
In May 1969, almost exactly 50 years ago, the Soviet space program…

The gas of life and the climate
I was a bookish child. While others honed their skills on the…



Is it smart for the US to export LNG
Oscar Wilde once observed that there are two tragedies in life:
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The road to hell is paved with discarded business models
15 years ago, North America was any LNG seller's wet dream. It…




The fallacy of external costs
The International Monetary Fund released a new report on fossil…

Sleeping in the pendulum clock
The funny battle against so-called zero-emissions vehicles
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Destination Clauses – Japan got it all messed up
Anyone following the current flurry of activity in the Asian…

LPG producers – act now or go away forever
About two years ago I was deeply involved in some LPG project…

Could Russia be importing US LNG soon?
Yeah, I know what you are going to say when reading the title.…

Who will pull the curtain on the first gas-electric 18 wheeler/excavator/locomotive
This article is more than 1000 days old and has been remastered.
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