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from my very cursory examination, there’s about 3.5x more fat in almond butter vs heavy cream on gram per gram basis. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the plant based ice cream has more fat than dairy based but it certainly raises the possibility.
On the good side, I suspect that the plant based ice cream will require less energy to maintain in solid state. So all the fat vegans can at least feel better about their contributions to climate change (although I doubt harvesting, transporting and processing coconuts has any advantage to maintaining dairy cows)
Is the fat content of the plant based ice cream higher than the dairy based?
“The rhetoric in the announcement by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce is long but the details are practically non-existent....”
Also note the word “net” - not “full”
Would be interesting to see how the envisaged PV units will be manufactured, transported and installed in a fully decarbonized world.
The Indian payload is minuscule compared to what folks like Bezos are trying to do. The Indian approach to getting to the moon is also primitive. There’s something to be said for effectiveness versus sophistication but sophistication can sell capabilities that primitive cant.
Geesh. My last experience with Eclipse was “CMG is the enemy” and their stuff has more arbitrary bandaids than Eclipse.
As for wellbore modeling, that was supposed to b part of what came with MI Swaco. I suspect that the softwares are intentionally not integrated because some geniuses thought they could maximize revenue that way. Of course, in principle, they could be leased as separate modules.
Although SLB is fond of buying companies, they tend to b terrible at integrating and maintaining the good parts. In some cases they’ve completely destroyed acquisitions that were profitable prior to and after acquisition.
Rental rates are listed in terms of “rentable square ft” and per sq ft. There’s ~10x difference between the two. The units appear to b the same; what’s the difference?
intersect apparently alive
https://www.software.slb.com/products/intersect
SLB’s ‘big data’ push was corporate wide and not limited to software integration and sales. Some of it involved what was in the CVX article, eg rather than some local person/group acquiring data and putting that information in some random form that is only known to and available to a small group, the information would go into a centralized storage facility that is discoverable and usable by a wider population (including folks that might want to integrate it into Petrel, Eclipse, etc).
That is a noble idea but very ambitious. Such projects get defeated by the scale and complexity of making it work. In addition they lack the competency and dedication and there are always tribes in large companies that refuse to share their data. In a company where managers don’t oversee any project for longer than 2 years, nobody owns a project that takes >2 years. Consequently, nothing but bandaid projects get completed.
CVX and SLB made a couple of stabs at jointly developing a successor to Eclipse. Both efforts died identically for the reasons above. Those exercises occupied ~10 years and 100s people. Doing what was outlined in the article you linked is far more ambitious and consequently I think it’s ill-fated.
I think what was described is very useful and should be necessary to sustainability and growth but the oil industry is ill-suited to accomplishing the task. They either have to pony up the guts, money, and dedication to do the job internally or sacrifice some payback to somebody who can do the job (eg Google). I don’t think any large oil E&P or service company will do the latter and their cultures make it difficult to do the former so they’re doomed to status quo.
I’ve tried to push such things in various places for less ambitious, specific projects (not just in SLB) and there is always resistance. The only place I’ve seen useful implementation of such ‘big data’ projects was in CHK. In its nascent stage it was more impressive than anything I saw in SLB. Many good things were sentenced to death when Aubrey was whacked.
Somewhat related is the conflict between automation of data acquisition and managers who like to pad their reporting pyramid. Folks who collect data are frequently adverse to automation cuz human tasks are eliminated. Some folks actually like manually inputting data and some managers like having subordinates who like to manually input data. Getting around or through those folks is where some higher level managerial oversight, intelligence and guts is required. Unfortunately, the folks building the firing squads tend to arrange them in circles and disclaim responsibility.
this is something Kibsgaard pushed in SLB and it was a disaster. While maximizing data availability is obviously good this quote demonstrates where the folks driving such exercises are clueless:
“Subject matter experts will have more time to focus on higher-value activities ...”
Firstly, the “subject matter experts” should be involved in how and what information is harvested and stored. They usually are not. Secondly, saying the subject matter experts will have more time to focus on higher value activities means: a) the data centralization exercise ain’t that important after all and b) somebody who ain’t a subject matter expert is going to be utilizing the information. How much sense does that make?
If folks have a bazillion types of unstructured reports, that says management has been sleeping at the wheel for a long time and why anybody thinks they are now going to successfully drive a ‘big data’ operation is living on hopium.
The folks who can make ‘big data’ work are working for ‘big data’ companies for a lot more money than the oil industry pays for such jobs and the big data jobs tend to be in nicer places than Houston (SLB’s op was in Bay Area but I suspect SLB got the dregs who couldn’t get jobs at Google, Apple, Amazon, etc )
This is going too far. Now they want to put dairy cows out of work
;^)
the energy saving arguments are ludicrous
no snowflaking 8^) for sincere misperceptions and prompting the dispensation of information
anybody with a backup camera on their car and drives in a place with snow or rain knows that the camera gets crapped up. How r lidar sensors going to cope with that problem?
brain, nervous system, and muscles. One of the reasons why I think fully autonomous driving systems r a fantasy.
Appears so but folks may be able to get around relatively steady state problems like fog or steady rain. What I would worry about is gusts of blowing dust/smoke/exhaust, flock of birds, and other ephemeral events that can trigger or escape detection.
Not to mention that having the Chinese navy in there would not be much different from having a bigger, better equipped Iranian navy and higher likelihood of negative unintended outcomes. Having multiple navies in the mix would almost guarantee additional problems.
It’s still a saying but the version I know is “better living through better chemistry”. I’m not sure if fake meat is better chemistry cuz I suspect it is inherently less efficient wrt human involved energy transformations. Of course if folks want to argue that it avoids denudation etc, then fine but I doubt if fake meat is being targeted at places like sub Saharan Africa and Haiti.
The governor is forward thinking. With all of the forthcoming “free” tuition, why should he further increase state debt?
What technology developed in the PRC has been stolen by US entities?
Your 2nd sentence doesn’t follow from the 1st. Are you saying that chemical toxicity to plants is also necessarily toxic to some fraction of humans?
Between executives getting sent to jail and the CEO getting fired, not too surprising she was only there 9 months.
It’s kind of like an evolutionarily immature virus - lots of mutations before it becomes just another boring material
“People are assuming that setting up a core and fluid analysis lab is easy.”
I completely agree. That was SLB’s problem from the beginning.
Aubrey McClendon had a beautiful lab built at CHK in order to get into that business but they were a tad over-extended
Von Gonten was/is trying to provide the services. Don’t know how well it’s working. There r some other small ops
sugarcoating is a too pervasive problem. Like the word suggests, it's stuff that's often used to make something less pleasant more palatable, but that underlying stuff is still present.
In his time as CEO, Kibsgaard has degraded SLB's stock price by >50% and the company's prestige and capabilities - all while paying himself $15M-$21M/year. The stock price hasnt been as low as it is now since they offloaded Sema and the CEO responsible for that acquisition. The SLB BoD has effectively allowed themselves to be neutered but they need to get some little blue pills and pony up to the bar and do some wholesale cleaning out of the top level executive suites. The suits are already empty.
HAL, CLB et al havent been sterling performers over the same time frame but not nearly as bad as SLB.
the guy that was driving SLB's rock and fluids analysis service lab operation was shifted elsewhere. In addition, SLB has effectively destroyed other parts of that operation thru neglect and mismanagement. They closed profitable rock and fluids operations in Utah and Edmonton and most of the capabilities and personnel in those operations were lost and the replacement operation in Houston never came close to making a profit. They pushed development of analytical tools that were uneconomic and didnt support or destroyed tools that were economic. I think they made some acquisitions more to handicap HAL and BHGE than to make use of the acquisitions. Of course, competition didnt just sit on their asses so those acquisitions became wasted money. Just flat out incompetent management of that entire part of their business from about 2010 onward. Kipsgaard and company are the worst things to happen to SLB since their Sema debacle.
SLB’s attempt to compete with some of CLB’s business has effectively been abandoned
“ a couple of 9th grade girls fighting over a girl”
Aren’t u the alternative, inclusive, diverse individual. ;^)
$10 worst case scenario? What happened to $0?
have u ever seen these things on the interstate? I suspect transportation is a little appreciated problem for these huge turbine blades. On rails and roads there r turning radius problems. I’ve seen sections of interstates shut down so state police and transporting companies can deal with them. They can kill an entire rest area while the drivers get their regulated driving breaks and wait for night so less traffic. Quite annoying to 1000s of other folks on the roads.
“Good to stumble onto a good geochemical discussion. ”
There’s something not seen very often 8^)
thx for the comment. Again, quite reasonable
Quite possibly. Here’s the paper I was looking at
https://res.mdpi.com/geosciences/geosciences-07-00033/article_deploy/geosciences-07-00033.pdf?filename=&attachment=1
I’ve only looked at a single study but it said the Mozambique gas was strictly thermogenic. I would expect biogenic gas to have more CO2.
In any case, the Mozambique gas is remarkably clean of problematic accessory gases (CO2 H2S). The only significant non hydrocarbon seems to b N2 at avg about 3%. The N2 is probably helpful for reducing clathrate formation if there’s any water in the stream.
Does look like TOT is a winner on the deal.
I don’t find it surprising at all. Lithium is not particularly uncommon or difficult to obtain.
as i stated previously, cameras are easily defeated. In addition, cameras must be monitored which raises costs and that is the point.
criminals an be quite imaginative and i'd bet that fully autonomous rental vehicles will be put to use for many illicit purposes. if u dont like mobile brothels, then think drug trafficking. A credit card creates a trace to a person but the credit card owner is not necessarily the passenger. In addition, for the case of drug trafficking, if the police do catch on to an uber/lyft being used illicitly and they stop the vehicle (that in itself will require some technology and cost) - can the vehicle be seized by the police and what is uber's/lyft's liability in that case?
used many times and am a big fan. the presence of a driver in a personal car makes a world of difference and that was the point. The driver is the monitor who can prevent the problems from occurring or recurring. I explicitly stated that i was referring to problems occurring for "fully autonomous" vehicles. In that case it's not necessarily clear who is responsible for the problems unless the vehicle is inspected after every client.
having lived a good fraction of my adult life without a car i'd be the last person to disagree that a person can get along without a car as long as the person lives in an urban area.
If the urban dweller can dial up uber/lyft and the car self-drives to the urbanite, then that should work (caveat below). In the vast fraction of the US that is rural, i dont think that fully autonomous uber/lyft vehicles will make up a significant fraction of vehicles.
I'll also stick to my pessimistic and skeptical outlook on human behavior and the inability of programmers and sensor manufacturers to deal with fully autonomous driving in a 10 yr timeframe. I figure if Boeing cant get an angle of attack sensor and its software to function properly in a passenger airplane, then the more complex, vehicle and organism dense environment that automobiles move in is hopeless.
I'll also stick to my belief that in your envisioned scenario, drunks and other bad actors will be a serious problem for uber/lyft. They should constitute a prolific customer base but i'm confident that they will present a significant and creative set of liabilities and costs. As another example, I can picture autonomous uber/lyfts as mobile brothels. The response might be to install cameras and microphones but those will also be defeated.
Without a monitor or personal vestment, some folks will not behave in ways that other folks find acceptable and those bad actors will kill the benefit that would otherwise exist for the majority.
the iron must be in a protein. my WAG would be a nitrogenase Fe-S protein, probably from legumes or ferritin (algae?).
wow. sounds almost defensive. whoever would've thought heme would be controversial. I have a feeling that some folks think heme molecules only exist in animals and therefore the heme-bearing veggie burger isnt vegan compatible.
bottom line, impossible burger if you want some iron in your veggie burger; beyond foods if you want a different polynuclear, aromatic molecule that is metal free.
i suspect that the beyond foods folk have a cheaper pigment source.
ps: re the defensive comment, i was referring to the beyond meat response
I’d venture that driverless Uber’s/Lyfts would result in cost increases due to vandalism and other forms of mischief and liabilities. People being as they r, I think drunks r more likely to obtain and vomit in a driverless car than 1 in which the owner is present. That’s just 1 example amongst many that I envision as being a problem.