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Luís F. Simões

Shell energy scenarios to 2050 - 6 views

www.shell.com/...shell_energy_scenarios_2050

energy future forecast politics economy climate_change

shared by Luís F. Simões on 09 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Luís F. Simões on 09 Mar 11
     
    just in case you were feeling happy and optimistic
  • ...7 more comments...
  • Francesco Biscani on 09 Mar 11
     
    An energy scenario published by an oil company? Allow me to be sceptical...
  • Joris _ on 10 Mar 11
     
    Indeed, Shell is an energy company, not just oil, for some time now ... The two scenarii are, in their approach, dependant of economic and political situation, which is right now impossible to forecast. Reference to Kyoto is surprising, almost out-dated! But overall, I find it rather optimistic at some stages, and probably the timeline (p37-39) is unlikely with recent events.
  • Luís F. Simões on 10 Mar 11
     
    the report was published in 2008, which explains the reference to Kyoto, as the follow-up to it was much more uncertain at that point. The Blueprint scenario is indeed optimistic, but also quite unlikely I'd say. I don't see humanity suddenly becoming so wise and coordinated. Sadly, I see something closer to the Scramble scenario as much more likely to occur.
  • LeopoldS on 12 Mar 11
     
    not an oil company??? please have a look at the percentage of their revenues coming from oil and gas and then compare this with all their other energy activities together and you will see very quickly that it is only window dressing ... they are an oil and gas company ... and nothing more
  • Joris _ on 14 Mar 11
     
    not JUST oil. From a description: "Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies." Of course revenues coming from oil are the biggest, the investment turnover on other energy sources is small for now. Knowing that most of their revenues is from an expendable source, to guarantee their future, they invest elsewhere. They have invested >1b$ in renewable energy, including biofuels. They had the largest wind power business among so-called "oil" companies. Oil only defines what they do "best". As a comparison, some time ago, Apple were selling only computers and now they sell phones. But I would not say Apple is just a phone company.
  • LeopoldS on 14 Mar 11
     
    window dressing only ... e.g. Net cash from operating activities (pre-tax) in 2008: 70 Billion$ net income in 2008: 26 Billion revenues in 2008: 88 Billion Their investments and revenues in renewables don't even show up in their annual financial reports since probably they are under the heading of "marketing" which is already 1.7 Billion $ ... this is what they report on their investments: Capital investment, portfolio actions and business development Capital investment in 2009 was $24 billion. This represents a 26% decrease from 2008, which included over $8 billion in acquisitions, primarily relating to Duvernay Oil Corp. Capital investment included exploration expenditure of $4.5 billion (2008: $11.0 billion). In Abu Dhabi, Shell signed an agreement with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to extend the GASCO joint venture for a further 20 years. In Australia, Shell and its partners took the final investment decision (FID) for the Gorgon LNG project (Shell share 25%). Gorgon will supply global gas markets to at least 2050, with a capacity of 15 million tonnes (100% basis) of LNG per year and a major carbon capture and storage scheme. Shell has announced a front-end engineering and design study for a floating LNG (FLNG) project, with the potential to deploy these facilities at the Prelude offshore gas discovery in Australia (Shell share 100%). In Australia, Shell confirmed that it has accepted Woodside Petroleum Ltd.'s entitlement offer of new shares at a total cost of $0.8 billion, maintaining its 34.27% share in the company; $0.4 billion was paid in 2009 with the remainder paid in 2010. In Bolivia and Brazil, Shell sold its share in a gas pipeline and in a thermoelectric power plant and its related assets for a total of around $100 million. In Canada, the Government of Alberta and the national government jointly announced their intent to contribute $0.8 billion of funding towards the Quest carbon capture and sequestration project. Quest, which is at the f
  • Joris _ on 14 Mar 11
     
    thanks for the info :) They still have their 50% share in the wind farm in Noordzee (you can see it from ESTEC on a clear day). Look for Shell International Renewables, other subsidiaries and joint-ventures. I guess, the report is about the oil branch. http://sustainabilityreport.shell.com/2009/servicepages/downloads/files/all_shell_sr09.pdf http://www.noordzeewind.nl/
  • LeopoldS on 16 Mar 11
     
    no - its about Shell globally - all Shell .. these participations are just peanuts please read the intro of the CEO in the pdf you linked to: he does not even mention renewables! their entire sustainability strategy is about oil and gas - just making it (look) nicer and environmentally friendlier
  • Joris _ on 16 Mar 11
     
    Fair enough, for me even peanuts are worthy and I am not able to judge. Not all big-profit companies, like Shell, are evil :( Look in the pdf what is in the upstream and downstream you mentionned above. Non-shell sources for examples and more objectivity: http://www.nuon.com/company/Innovative-projects/noordzeewind.jsp http://www.e-energymarket.com/news/single-news/article/ferrari-tops-bahrain-gp-using-shell-biofuel.html thanks.
LeopoldS

Enhanced Oil Recovery Powered by Solar - 0 views

cleantechnica.com/...hanced-oil-recovery-technology

renewable solar oil

shared by LeopoldS on 16 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 16 Sep 14
     
    instead of using the solar generated steam to generate electricity, it seems to make economic sense to use it to pump more oil out of the ground ...
Luís F. Simões

Robert Newman's History of Oil - 2 views

video.google.com/videoplay

history oil politics fun

shared by Luís F. Simões on 07 Apr 11 - Cached
  • Luís F. Simões on 07 Apr 11
     
    as discussed at lunch: "Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at school, he places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion."
santecarloni

Rolling microcapsules repair damaged surfaces - physicsworld.com - 0 views

physicsworld.com/...48259

materials technology

shared by santecarloni on 13 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • santecarloni on 13 Jan 12
     
    Researchers in the US have unveiled a new technique to repair nanometre-sized defects using oil-based microcapsules filled with a nanoparticle solution.
ESA ACT

The Utopia Experiment - 0 views

www.dylan.org.uk/index.htm

NRG SoS Sustainability

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    how life will be affected by climate change and the end of cheap oil during the next few decades?
ESA ACT

euronews | Oil demand 'to fall this year and next' - 0 views

www.euronews.net/...and-to-fall-this-year-and-next

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    only 1 day difference from the other one, someone is not accurate here..
ESA ACT

Oil Price Predictions - Now vs. Seven Months Ago - 0 views

economics.about.com/...ns-now-vs-seven-months-ago.htm

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    triggered from the other posts, just to show the uncertainty
LeopoldS

MIT develops a 'paper towel' for oil spills - MIT News Office - 0 views

web.mit.edu/...oil-paper-0530.html

NAN environment

shared by LeopoldS on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 15 Jul 09
     
    nice use of nanotechnology (link from José)
johannessimon81

Amazon's New Truck Can Haul Five Copies of the Internet-With Room to Spare - 1 views

www.wired.com/...-truck-hauling-huge-hard-drive

data

shared by johannessimon81 on 05 Dec 16 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 05 Dec 16
     
    I guess this is for data what oil tankers vs. pipelines are for hydrocarbons. Isn't ESA doing something similar for satellite data? I seem to remember that Leopold mentioned that at some point.
Athanasia Nikolaou

Polymer scientists jam nanoparticles, trapping liquids in useful shapes - 1 views

phys.org/...sts-nanoparticles-liquids.html

fluids nanoparticles PHY

shared by Athanasia Nikolaou on 30 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 30 Oct 13
     
    Inserting a droplet of polymer enriched water into oil and manipulating its shape by applying an electric field. The shape remains intact after cease of the forcing. <br /> "Russell (...) points out that the advance holds promise for a wide range of different applications including in drug delivery, biosensing, fluidics, photovoltaics, encapsulation and bicontinuous media for energy applications and separations media."
Thijs Versloot

Taking the internet underwater - 0 views

phys.org/...13-10-internet-underwater.html

technology

shared by Thijs Versloot on 15 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 15 Oct 13
     
    University at Buffalo researchers are developing a deep-sea Internet. The technological breakthrough could lead to improvements in tsunami detection, offshore oil and natural gas exploration, surveillance, pollution monitoring...
jcunha

Maze-solving automatons can repair broken circuits - 1 views

scitation.aip.org/...1.4916513

technology PHY space

shared by jcunha on 09 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • jcunha on 09 Apr 15
     
    Researchers in Bangalore, India together with the Indian Space Research organization come up with an intelligent self-healing algorithm that can locate open-circuits faults and repair them in real-time. They used an insulating silicon oil containing conductive particles. Whenever a fault happens, an electric field develops there, causing the fluid to move in a 'thermodynamic automaton' way repairing the fault. The researchers make clear it could be one advantage for electronics in harsh environments, such as in space satellites.
Thijs Versloot

Black Hole Analogue Discovered in South Atlantic Ocean - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...overed-in-south-atlantic-ocean

science physics

shared by Thijs Versloot on 23 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • Thijs Versloot on 23 Aug 13
     
    Vortices in the South Atlantic are mathematically equivalent to black holes, say physicists, an idea that could lead to new ways of understanding how currents transport oil and garbage across oceans Black holes are regions of spacetime in which gravity is strong enough to prevent anything escaping, even light.
Juxi Leitner

Sea Swarm - 3 views

senseable.mit.edu/seaswarm

swarm technology oil spill cleanup autonomous robots

shared by Juxi Leitner on 05 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Juxi Leitner on 05 Sep 10
     
    nice idea and very nice video ;) using applied swarms
Joris _

Japan plans to send a robot to the moon | The Australian - 1 views

www.theaustralian.com.au/...story-e6frg8y6-1225947783972

robot space moon

shared by Joris _ on 04 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • the little android's oil bearings and ultrasonic sensors will not work in the lunar vacuum
  • The one-sixth gravity presents problems for stable movement, and Moon dust clogs joints.
  • the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa), the country's space agency. It runs the rockets needed to deliver their robot to the Moon and, so far, has been distinctly cool on the idea.
  • Joris _ on 04 Nov 10
     
    Interesting! I like the quote "Maybe China would allow that to be a one-way trip but, in Japan, it would have to be a return ticket" talking about a human mission ....
pandomilla

Bioinspired self-repairing slippery surfaces with pressure-stable omniphobicity : Natur... - 3 views

www.nature.com/...nature10447.html

biomimetics plant self-repairing

shared by pandomilla on 22 Sep 11 - No Cached
LeopoldS liked it
  • a strategy to create self-healing, slippery liquid-infused porous surface(s) (SLIPS) with exceptional liquid- and ice-repellency, pressure stability and enhanced optical transparency. Our approach—inspired by Nepenthes pitcher plants13—is conceptually different from the lotus effect, because we use nano/microstructured substrates to lock in place the infused lubricating fluid. We define the requirements for which the lubricant forms a stable, defect-free and inert ‘slippery’ interface.
  • ts capability to repel various simple and complex liquids (water, hydrocarbons, crude oil and blood),
  • pandomilla on 22 Sep 11
     
    ...This slippery surface was bio-inspired by the carnivorous plant I showed you sometimes ago! I was sure it was a good idea! next time I will be quicker!!
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  • LeopoldS on 22 Sep 11
     
    Shit. I am sure that there is more to do on this. Let's have a closer look.
  • LeopoldS on 22 Sep 11
     
    And a good lesson that it is important to proceed quickly when you have an idea and don't wait ...
  • pandomilla on 23 Sep 11
     
    Yes, I will see what we could do, but they really did a good job, from the biomimetic of the surface, up to the realization of the material, and the tests...
Christos Ampatzis

Academic publishers make Murdoch look like a socialist - 4 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...c-publishers-murdoch-socialist

science

shared by Christos Ampatzis on 02 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Christos Ampatzis on 02 Sep 11
     
    Who are the most ruthless capitalists in the western world? Whose monopolistic practices make Walmart look like a corner shop and Rupert Murdoch a socialist? You won't guess the answer in a month of Sundays. While there are plenty of candidates, my vote goes not to the banks, the oil companies or the health insurers, but - wait for it - to academic publishers.
  • LeopoldS on 11 Sep 11
     
    fully agree ... "But an analysis by Deutsche Bank reaches different conclusions. "We believe the publisher adds relatively little value to the publishing process … if the process really were as complex, costly and value-added as the publishers protest that it is, 40% margins wouldn't be available." Far from assisting the dissemination of research, the big publishers impede it, as their long turnaround times can delay the release of findings by a year or more." very nice also: "Government bodies, with a few exceptions, have failed to confront them. The National Institutes of Health in the US oblige anyone taking their grants to put their papers in an open-access archive. But Research Councils UK, whose statement on public access is a masterpiece of meaningless waffle, relies on "the assumption that publishers will maintain the spirit of their current policies". You bet they will. In the short term, governments should refer the academic publishers to their competition watchdogs, and insist that all papers arising from publicly funded research are placed in a free public database. In the longer term, they should work with researchers to cut out the middleman altogether, creating - along the lines proposed by Björn Brembs of Berlin's Freie Universität - a single global archive of academic literature and data. Peer-review would be overseen by an independent body. It could be funded by the library budgets which are currently being diverted into the hands of privateers. The knowledge monopoly is as unwarranted and anachronistic as the corn laws. Let's throw off these parasitic overlords and liberate the research that belongs to us."
  • Christos Ampatzis on 12 Sep 11
     
    It is a really great article and the first time I read something in this direction. FULLY AGREE as well. Problem is I have not much encouraging to report from the Brussels region...
ESA ACT

Russia Pours Billions in Oil Profits Into Nanotech Race - 0 views

www.wired.com/...russian_nano

NAN technology StrategicPlanning

shared by ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    José - I think that we might have a look and find out where are the exactly investing and how they spend the money ....
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