Arthur Berman: "Peak Oil - The Hedonic Adjustment"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
00:00
Natural Gas Plant Liquids - Is That a Good Idea?
Methane is the simplest hydrocarbon molecule, it's just carbon and hydrogen. You can't burn it at 300 degrees below zero and 10 times the atmospheric pressure. And once you've allowed that to come back to room or surface temperature, it has no liquids in it to begin with. So if we hypothetically were running low on oil and society is fundamentally dependent on oil, not natural gas or coal, though those are also important, could we boost, dramatically boost our natural gas production and turn it into a liquid? Well, I mean, so just turning it into aliquid, like I just explained with methane into LNG, wouldn't be very effective.
Transcript
Play full episode
