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“If you are to burn natural gas in in an appliance in a home, for example, like a home boiler or in, in, in an oven And you take that two and a half percent leak rate upstream as a given, then it's actually even a little bit worse in the next 20 years from a gl…”

“In places like the Permian where, you know, the number is seven percent, then eight percent, then nine percent, those are tragically high fugitive, fugitive, fugitive levels. You might as well be doing coal.”

“Well, it is a very big disruption in the energy markets, and in a sense, it's global, or maybe you can even say all-encompassing, because it involves not only oil as previous crises, but natural gas and coal.”

“Countries that were counting on LNG in Asia, for instance, developing Asia, can't afford it. So what do they do? They burn coal, or they have blackouts.”

“Half of the power generated in, in Africa is from South Africa. A lot of that is coal dominated as well.”

“I strongly suspect that there will be more solar in Indonesia than we forecast. Solar will get cheaper than coal there. It will find places to ease in. The government will probably even change its policy.”

“Today we have about 1.3 terawatts of installed operating hydropower. And that represents about the it's the majority of renewable energy produced in the world today. It's the third largest source of electricity after natural gas and coal.”

“And so Watt Time, that is the general methodology that they use. They found that 85% of incremental load from Bitcoin mining comes from coal and natural gas plants.”

“Even on a net zero pathway, critical minerals demand does not top thirty million metric tons in 2040, according to the IEA, and by comparison to thirty million metric tons, oil production last year was 4.4 billion. Metric tons. Coal was seven and a half billio…”