RE: Helium transportation?20 Apr 2024 22:29
Ok this is additional lateral thinking along the lines I posted before about the US onshoring lithium, ergo helium. And the DOE + Ford buying into Thacker Pass (a huge lithium project) to tune of +$2.4bn to secure US lithium supplies. (I posted the links earlier)
So here you can see another parallel, this time ‘gunpowder and the associated cotton’ that comes from China. Ergo helium!
https://www.politico.eu/article/saab-ceo-warns-against-reliance-china-make-weapons-europe/
It seems unbelievable that Europe ‘could end up asking for a truce’ coz a potential adversary, China, won’t supply weapons propellants to Europe during a hypothetical future conflict! Crazy eh….
Well actually due to the Ukrainian war there is now a queue as China is prioritising selling propellant to Russia whilst Europe waits!
So we cant pass on shells to Ukraine coz we don’t produce our own propellants at any scale so we now have to wait for deliveries from China which will occur after the Russians have their orders filled !!
Well that’s the gist of this fking madness!
But still it’s cheaper for us!
Also if production is in ‘honest’, green’ China and it’s not in our back yard then that makes it greener as well!
So now extend the narrative and you will see that is the reason why the US will secure their own domestic helium supplies.
Weapons, space, chips and medical! That seems a pretty good incentive!
The US are serious about independent security of supply. Not like the UK under any govt or Europe for that matter. We think it’s fine not to develop gas in the North Sea, a key transition fuel that enables a move away from coal.
Instead we greenwash our own narrative and then import gas from Qatar, US or even Russia at premium prices and higher footprint and worse still use coal power as a backstop!
This country is bonkers!
When will we realise that as an island we have independent, fisheries, farming, energy + green energy, financial services, infrastructure, water and even mining! Etc!
We need to follow the US onshoring model of supply security!
Oops,
Usual caveats,
Trek