And many on including the us of the volume the how do they do the secret life. But stats may 22nd on the d, w the these 3, let us steering up the world of energy. D l n g o Energy Exports l n g i n g n g liquefied natural gas as hailed us the magic solution to lots of our problems in europe. Thats getting much less gas from russia. Its supposed to keep the lights on in asia. Its supposed to do away with such a cold, and then the west could tie the strain, the where most of the stuff is coming from. Its supposed to make a lot of people, a lot of money. All these places are frantically bolstering the infrastructure to ship ever larger amounts of liquid gas around the world. But is this really a good idea . The 1923 british scientist michael sarah. The experimented with different gases to discover that when he called and compressed them by tons of liquids. Today we use essentially the same process to make l n g, which youll natural gas. So mainly me thing to about minus 160 degrees celsius. Thats when it becomes liquids and 600. 00 times small and volume. That makes it possible to ship and trade it overseas. The substitute for showed up when you want to transport gas across the Long Distance east. This is the answer few coble research as natural gas markets. If you want to transport natural gas from say, train. Yeah. Which of 520 to very north. I think thats. Thats enough. In 1969, the new find pioneer became the 1st ship to deliver ellen g across the atlantic. Today, more than 610 coast carry the stuff around the world. Trade volumes had been growing steadily over the last few decades, and then in 2022. Ellen g took center stage, and the russian invasion of ukraine is underway. Russias full scale invasion of ukraine. Russia invaded ukraine. Russia is shutting down gas supplies, a complete halt to the flow of natural gas as a response to economic sanctions from the west, russia south. Its main pipeline and delivering natural gas to europe. Europe, which at that time, but 40 percent off, its natural gas through pipelines from russia scrambling to find new supplies. And so it will suddenly in the market for more energy do t o n g is that these fixing the so shes getting the basic key retiring take away. So it is useful so you wont be as, as being so kind of saves you as to what went on europe started building more input to him and those elements coastline. This is where the tank of stocks the energy gets read. Yes, a fights and then pet into the local network. In the us. Now the worlds biggest exports on spot to building will export terminals. This is where the natural gas gets liquefied and been loaded onto ships. But the one ukraine is really only half the story behind the current elegy. The biggest amount actually lies in asia, china and india in particular, and mass of the expanding the input infrastructure to secure enough energy for the growing economies. This map shows all those and to determine those that are already operating, those that are under construction and those that have been proposed. There are enough projects in development to triple google export capacity with energy and increase Effective Work capacity by 2 thirds. This is robin rosanne sky. Hes a research for Global Energy monitor of the n g o which compiled the map. Probably not all of that is going to be built. But even if just some of that gets built, its very cons. Hes huge vcs activity jacob, which begs the question, what does it mean for Global Warming as being this assumption that transporting liquefied natural gas. And these must have congress ships, is extremely low emissions. This is pull balcony chemical engineer who measures the gas industries, methane emissions, and i think were just understanding in the last couple of years that maybe does not quite say true. Heres the thing. When you burn natural gas in the power station, it admits only half as much c o 2 as cold. Thats great, but it ignores what happened before on the way to the power station and for an n g. And thats a pretty long way. You 1st have to get natural gas out of the ground, then turn it into l. N. G at the liquefaction plant, then ship it where it needs to go from thousands of kilometers away. Then turn it back into a gas and only then can you bring it in the power station. All these steps use energy, for example, the initial cooling of the gas and the fueling of the ship. This that c o 2 emissions to make meant as was Something Else might be escaping at every step of the way. Be facing a problem with me by the machines is that its a very power Greenhouse Gas journey need. Very small amounts of methane emissions to have a big climate impact. Thats because it initially traps more heat than c o 220. 00 is after its been released. Me things, woman power is still more than 80 times greater. And the problem is we still dont really know how much of this stuff is escaping along the elegy, supply chain or so companies havent really been required to measure that right. Or emissions side, which is that really has the dates. And so rece relatively recently when we start to expand academics and other other organizations, we started getting on the ships to go and collect some of the methane emissions states. And so weve got maybe sort of 5 percent of the way into it and we need to need to do the rest of the 95 percent to really get a better understanding of the images. One of his recent studies, for example, i found more me thing them previously. Thoughts slipped through analogy, ships engines. The thing is this, if me find emissions along the supply chain and turn out to be quite high, and then these climate benefit of other fossil fuels shrinks. A recent study even claims, its worse for the climate than digging up and burning coal. They must be set low. This hasnt been Peer Reviewed yet. And many similar studies conclude energy is still the cleaner way of generating power. The, i mean, the, the, the secondary question. So that is a guy. So its better, is it good enough . And the answer is, invariably, no, its not good enough to me out of time to talk its, its hard to see how you can keep building always Energy Infrastructure and youre calling because at the same time we reached out to 2 Energy Industry groups to he a valve, you one this, the center for island g and the International Group of liquefied guessing process. The 1st never go back to us, but the 2nd degree to an interview. So how do they bring together our climate goals and more energy is not symmetric contradiction. If you go to the fact that the gas and energy again failed in the energy transition, the industry has so long argued that natural gas is vital in lowering emissions by replacing coals, particularly in asia where its still used widely. Of course, at the end, if you want to reach the need 0, need to move to newest one. Move away from chain to for some future. Natural gas is pure. But yes for the medium them. You know, im telling you the switch is very important. The risk of building more fossil fuel infrastructure of any kind. So is that we look in emissions for decades and Energy Terminals have a life span of 20 years or more. Delta right does also often find long term supply contracts guaranteeing their one for decades. If we make a massive investments right now and such that it makes continuing, these fossil fuels or a cheaper way, cheaper than other investments and we have to be really careful about that. So energies, climate credentials are questionable. At the very least thats to be fair. Climate action hasnt really been that the top of the old and gas industry is agenda. One thing has though, money look at this charge. The predict how energy trade will evolve until the 25th, the assuming governments will do what they promise to protect the clients. Now this is the Energy Infrastructure already in place, and this is the one were currently building more than we actually need. So whats going to happen with these new terminals . Theres the risk that if we do me stay on track to meeting our climate goals, deluxe, obviously still these new new facilities to be built, not use much. They do most of stranded assets. That means theyve shut down before they made back the money. It cost to build the that could mean billions of invest uh and government money down the drain. Again, we put this to the industry groups. It really depends on, you see it is you demand eroding and its very odd to predict. Should have a page on 6065. Before that we Energy Release needed even increase the google gas demand is decreasing. So the silver capacity, we dont make any scenarios or predictions at the jr idea now, but i would say there is a risk, but this should be the easiest. And thats the problem with predictions. This is only one scenario with which governments live up to the excitement pledges. Gas Companies Might see a different future. Maybe theyre bidding that this wont happen after all. And probably that by having the infrastructure in place like rolling the market, there will be some to sustain themselves. Full cost as a full cost is a full cost. This one from show predicts l. N. G. The mines, the blue line to keep growing. You christian, east coast, east and then green to lead forward all the states. And this is the question 3, which is when i enter so many forecasts of the names. But though i used to think thats the state thats and theres another reason for specifically building the input terminals in sheet info, skip a seat as well. So there is 1240 sense of security of subtract because, you know, we can be of as soon as you need us to be very careful because she thinks that means how much Financial Sense it makes. Takes a backseat to you. Its more about having the infrastructure in place. If other supplies dry up like it happens in europe with restaurants, pipeline guess. So. Well, so that leave us, should we push ahead with the l m g expansion or pump the brakes . Well, thats a tricky question. Energy does have its benefits, its flexible, versatile, and fairly cheap bucks. It also raises 2 major concerns. Firstly, we need to make a 100 percent. Sure. Its actually better for the climates than other fossil fuels. What we really need to do is emissions. We need to prove it. If it isnt, we need to work out how we can drive them down because it seems that all of the fossil fuel and categories, it seems that energy may well be. Theres a, the last one that we, that we rely on. And secondly, we need to get a better idea how much energy we really need and for how long the alternative cell, the 0 after year were seeing new was become cheaper and cheaper, easier to build. And its clear, at least in the power sector and that renewables could be a great replacement from all of this potential gas demand. When all of a sudden done and in g remains of fossil fuel. If we have serious about slowing climate change, we need to ditch it the sooner the better. And every time i know we built makes that hot a what about you . Does the whole country rely on lindsey . How do you feel about it . Let us know in the comments and dont forget to hit subscribe for more videos like this every friday. The way, every car tires drive deforestation. 70 percent of the worlds rubber harvest goes to the tire industry. Massive tire makers are turning towards cycling and using alternative raw materials. A real change of heart for just more 3 washing shows up next on d, w, africa. 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