Emeritus Prof Christopher May4d ago

In the next week or so, shipments of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) will reach their destinations marking the end of supplies from the Middle East now halted by the US/Israeli attack(s) on Iran & the Iranian response.

After that (given the damage to LNG facilities in the region of the war), there will be between three to five years of constrained supply & higher prices.

Essentially exactly what's needed to drive an accelerated green transition (ironic, huh?)

#Iran #LNG #GreenTransition
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Show threadMandelbroccoli4d ago
@ChrisMayLA6 unfortunately, the green revolution won’t come to fertiliser production in that time - a lot of staple foods could get very expensive rather soon, and no amount of electric cars or solar panels will help with that. We really are pretty screwed I think
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@mandelbroccoli @ChrisMayLA6 there are ways to farm more sustainably than covering the ground in often plastic coated pellets. Its done for cost reasons way more than yields. We will have to change soon anyway as we are running out of minerals to strip mine and poison rivers with when it runs off
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Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell4d ago

@etchedpixels @mandelbroccoli @ChrisMayLA6

Yes, totally agree on this. I’ve seen a couple of studies now in an area that researchers all acknowledge needs a lot more, but intercrop farming, which a specific version of multi crop farming is demonstrably more productive per unit land, because mixing different species together actually improves soil micro biome, and better utilizes acreage.

Permaculture has been demonstrated to match commercial farm productivity and probably beats it..

Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell4d ago

@etchedpixels @mandelbroccoli @ChrisMayLA6

The consequences to these different practices is the elimination of inputs, vastly reducing cost and debt risk.

The difference is intensive industrial farming, maximizes a yield of a particular crop, but demands a lot of expensive inputs, alternative farming techniques, work best on small scales and locally.

Exposure to global supply chains is an increasingly precarious risk