Chris Adams

Simple table comparing scale of different oil crises Supply disrupted is one column Available spare capacity is the next column Availability spare capacity & location is the final column The 2026 Gulf War crises has by far the highest disruption (20%) and lowest spare capacity (0%, although I think this is a slight exaggeration)

Again this table via @70sbachchan.bsky.social
I am not so sure that current spare capacity is really *zero*; and it doesn't list SPRs, but still shows the extreme potential of this situation

Great quotes in military history.

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they said the green politics decade was over, but funnily enough what the far rights are effectively engineering is a huge build-up against fossil fuels.

that is, of course, if the fossil fuels don’t kill democracy in the mean time. which i would not bet on.

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Attacks leave dead vs killed

Iranian journalist reports in front of the flames of a burning Oil depot.

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

Normalise the second question when you meet an American outside of America being “who did you vote for?”

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

If you were investing in the future would you like to spend a billion or more dollars a day on a war for oil or would you like to spend that money to rapidly reduce your dependence on oil?

Now we get to see both of those approaches in real time.

Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

A witless parody of authoritarianism.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.

Thank you! At an event last night I said "If the word hope doesn't work for you try, 'Never fucking surrender.'" The word hope seems too sunny to a lot of people, but the heart of it as I'm interested in it is: we make the future in the present, if we show up, and that never surrender part.

Australian gas producers reap windfalls as Iran war chokes global supply Angela Macdonald-Smith Angela Macdonald-Smith Senior resources writer Mar 6, 2026 – 1.38pm Save Share Gift this article Listen to this article 7 min Australia’s biggest gas producers are cashing in on the conflict in the Middle East and the suspension of Qatari LNG production, which has disrupted global supply, with deals struck at more than double recent market rates. Santos, the country’s second-biggest listed oil and gas producer, finalised a deal with a commodities trader on Wednesday for the sale of an LNG cargo at about $US25 ($35) per million British thermal units (MMBtu), according to market sources, who were not authorised to speak publicly.

Not a single soul on the planet happier about bloodshed, conflict, uncertainty, rising energy bills, fuel shortages and cost of living collapse than the CEO of a fossil fuel company

The worse the death and destruction, the happier they (and the shareholders) get

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So according to the WSJ a US Senator conspired with another country to manipulate the US into starting a war, am I getting this right

China Is Developing a Taste for Fake Meat Alternative proteins have floundered in the U.S., but investors are leaning in elsewhere.

in the U.S., the fake meat industry has been struggling for years. but over in china, the sector is gaining traction as the govt incorporates "future foods" such as alt proteins into its 5-year plan. could this be the latest U.S.-born innovation that china takes mainstream? i ~explore~

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Cricket’s revenge.

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

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CNN: Three US fighter jets accidentally shot down by Kuwaiti air defenses, military says By Haley Britzky , Helen Regan Helen Regan , Eyad Kourdi , Isaac Yee , Teele Rebane , Lucas Lilieholm Updated 13 hr ago

Reuters: Fire at US embassy complex in Riyadh after blast heard, sources say By Reuters March 2, 20266:23 PM CSTUpdated 13 mins ago

New York Times: U.S. military death toll rises to 6

CNN: State Dept urges US citizens to "DEPART NOW" from countries throughout Middle East

Two days into the war:

- three F-15s shot down

- U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia in flames

- six U.S. service members confirmed dead; more wounded

- State Department tells Americans to flee the entire Middle East

Just last week the German government gutted the heating law which was supposed to drive a transition away from gas.

The timing could not have been worse: Gas prices are up 50% today and this crisis could worsen significantly. This will happen again and again and the consumer pays the price.

All Europeans will pay the price for their leaders' reaction to the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran this weekend.

European leaders (all except Pedro Sanchez) have now accepted the end of international law.

The consequences of this will be felt not for weeks, not for years, but for decades

I cannot overstate what a massive component of big tech's AI data centre boom leans on these exact loopholes and problems with emissions standards --->>>

FWIW, I read and enjoyed the minimum viable scale paper you recently published recently, but I totally missed the bit about different methods of collecting the info from FF industry actors when I did.

At the risk of sounding naive, are there some good examples of “gather data and recover costs” that you like to cite and could point me too?

I haven’t seen the two approaches framed this way and I’m now v interested, as it’s relevant to my line of work.

“We thought we were living in a politically neutral slave state.”

If you're concerned about climate / environment impacts, do not listen to this random account

Anthropic (a) discloses no env or energy data of any kind and (b) has been urging the US gov't to build out fossil fuel infrastructure for their data centres