>>18469751

Maritime sites have it, accident during hot work for dismantling, not an active rig

Rig Fire at Mobile, Alabama Scrapyard

Mike Schuler March 8, 2023

A fire has broken out on a semi-submersible rig that is being dismantled in Mobile, Alabama.

Multiple fire units arrived on scene to discover a “multi-story, oil rig-like structure” with heavy smoke and flames, the Mobile Fire-Rescue Department reported.

The platform is said to contain diesel, hydraulic fluid, and oil with other potential hazards on board.

Local news reports indicate the platform is being scrapped and the fire was sparked during hot work.

?#BREAKING: Large fire breaks out at a multi-story oil rig with hazardous materials burning ???#Mobile | #Alabama??Currently Multiple firefighters, accompanied by several other companies are battling a large fire that has erupted at an oil rig situated on east side of… https://t.co/P2hRTVv5uh pic.twitter.com/XLoNs8ydvH

— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) March 8, 2023

The platform is the MSS3 oil rig that is being dismantled at the Alabama Shipyard. The shipyard posted a video of the 130-foot tall derrick being taken down just the other day.

gCaptain is told there are no injuries.

The Mobile Fire-Rescue Department said crew are working in tandem to mitigate the incident as quickly as possible.

https://gcaptain.com/rig-fire-at-mobile-alabama-scrapyard/

>>18469892

Meh, it's jpost as sauce again, kinda like Real Raw News but in Hebrew

NextEra CEO Says Offshore Wind a Bad Bet

Reuters March 8, 2023 By David French

HOUSTON, March 8 (Reuters) – Offshore wind is a bad bet due to the complications of installing and maintaining infrastructure at sea and the high cost of transmitting electricity back to shore, NextEra Chief Executive John Ketchum said on Wednesday.

“It’s very capital intensive,” he said during an event at the CERAWeek energy conference in Houston.

U.S.-based NextEra is the world’s largest producer of renewable power, with a focus on solar and onshore wind.

The administration of President Joe Biden is hoping to grow U.S. offshore wind power as part of its multipronged effort to decarbonize the economy to fight climate change. It has auctioned leases in federal waters. But most of the interest in those leases has so far come from European companies with years of experience in the offshore wind sector, which took off in Europe decades ago.

Ketchum said some of the industry’s complications included salt water corrosion, the threat of hurricanes, the availability of ships and the installation of subsea transmission cables, and added that supply chain issues have driven up the costs.

“We find it hard enough just to take care of a fleet onshore with some of the issues that we deal with as a company, and we’re best in class,” he said.

Ketchum said NextEra expects its power generation capacity – excluding its regulated utility Florida Power and Light – to grow dramatically in the next few years, from around 25 gigawatts now to around 70 gigawatts in 2026.

“And that installed capacity is going to come from renewables only,” he said.

He said the company’s plans assume huge advancements in battery storage technology needed to provide power to the grid when the sun is not shining and wind is not blowing. Batteries for power storage currently only last around four hours.

“You’re going to see significant innovations that come to market for the next, I’d say, five to seven years that are going to dramatically change how we think about batteries,” he said.

He said the electric vehicle industry was driving much of the innovation in batteries.

Ketchum said the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, which provides some $370 billion in incentives for clean energy, was a significant boost to the industry and that NextEra was well-placed to take advantage of it because of the company’s scale.

Despite having the largest renewable power fleet, Ketchum believed natural gas would play an important role in generation until storage technology improves.

“I mean it’s just putting your head in the sand to believe that the energy transition that this country is embarking on will work without natural gas power generation.”

https://gcaptain.com/nextera-ceo-says-offshore-wind-a-bad-bet/

>>18470063

How many gallons of this magic enzyme are needed to power one X-box?

>>18470074

What chemicals are used to make this material and how hazardous are the waste byproducts?

>>18470074

Lutetium was discovered in 1907–08 by Austrian chemist Carl Auer von Welsbach and Georges Urbain, working independently. Urbain derived the name for the element from Lutetia, the ancient Roman name for Paris, to honour his native city. The name lutetium became widely accepted except in Germany, where it was commonly called cassiopeium until the 1950s. One of the rarest of the rare earths, lutetium occurs in rare-earth minerals such as laterite clays, xenotime, and euxenite. Though lutetium composes only trace mounts (less than 0.1 percent by weight) of the commercially important minerals bastnasite and monazite, it has proved feasible to extract the metal as a by-product. Lutetium is also found in the products of nuclear fission.

https://www.britannica.com/science/lutetium

So we need nuke reactors, Jane Fonda gonna lose it

>>18470258

>>18470263

Was posted last bread

General Research #22647 >>18469262

Riots Break Out, Strikers Block Fuel Refineries as Millions Protest in France Against Pension Reforms

Violent riots and economically damaging activist actions broke out in France on Tuesday as the country saw one of its biggest mass mobilisations of protesters in years in response to President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to raise the pension age from 62 to 64 years old.

Millions of people took part in protests across 200 towns and cities in France on Tuesday, with the organising CGT union claiming that up to 3.5 million people flooded out onto the streets, while the French Interior Ministry put the number at around 1.28 million.

The protests and accompanying trade union strikes were the sixth such demonstration since January against President Macron’s planned pension age hike to 64, which would still be lower than other major European nations such as Britain, Germany, and Spain. Nevertheless, the proposal has sparked outrage among the French public that has been suffering under economic hardship caused by rampant inflation.

According to President Macron, the raising of the pension age is required to keep the programme solvent given the the independent Pensions Advisory Council has predicted that large deficits will hit the system over the next 25 years. In addition to raising the pension age, the Neo-liberal president and former Rothschild banker has also called for workers to have put into the system for 43 years before becoming eligible for full retirement benefits.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/03/08/watch-riots-break-out-strikers-block-fuel-refineries-as-millions-protest-in-france-against-pension-reforms/

>>18470274 (me)

France pension protests: Fuel deliveries blocked by strikers

By Hugh Schofield & Paul Kirby

In Paris & London

Fuel deliveries were blocked from all French refineries, according to union officials, as protesters again took to the streets over government plans to raise the pension age from 62 to 64.

"The strike has begun everywhere," said Eric Sellini of the CGT union.

Tuesday marked the sixth day of strikes and protests since mid-January and trade unions said it would be the biggest yet.

Most train and metro services were cancelled and many schools closed.

Police estimated between 1.1 million and 1.4 million would taking part in the 260 protests highlighted by unions. The hardline CGT said as many as 700,000 demonstrators had turned out in Paris alone, although police figures were likely to be far lower.

With the government showing no sign of backing down on its pension plan, one union leader, Emmanuel Lépine, said last week that the aim of blocking fuel deliveries was to "bring the French economy to its knees".

It was unclear how long the refinery blockades would last. There are eight refineries in mainland France and the CGT said strikers had blocked the exits to all of them, including those run by TotalEnergies and Esso-ExxonMobil.

In the days ahead, there will be calls to extend the strikes to include power generation too.

So far, for all the noise and sporadic disruption, the campaign has caused little damage to the economy and the bill is proceeding through parliament.

Unions and the Left know time is running out before the reform becomes a reality - which is all the more reason for them to up the pressure now.

French plan to raise pension age by two years to 64

One million join French retirement age protests

French protests intensify against pension age rise

President Emmanuel Macron has called the reform "essential" because of deficits forecast for France's pension system over the next 25 years, according to analysis by the independent Pensions Advisory Council.

As well as raising the pension age by two years, the government says workers would have to contribute for 43 years into France's shared pension fund before earning a full pension.

Very few French workers have personal pensions linked to capital investments.

More:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64870836

Others reporting it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/world/europe/macron-france-retirement-protests.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/07/france-braced-for-huge-disruption-as-transport-workers-start-rolling-strikes

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/7/pension-reforms-protests-in-france-what-you-need-to-know

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/france-strike-transit-pension-reform-bill-protest-emmanuel-macron/

>>18470327

Imagine being in Beijing right now. Gorillions of yuan spend on aircraft carriers and fifth generation fighters and the Department of Balloons shows all it takes is a couple of bulk carriers launching soldiers in ultralights from the deck hatches. Value Added: once the strike force has taken off in Los Angeles Harbor, the bulkers can proceed to Vancouver to offload

>>18470431

Are ya kiddin?

Wait until the ones that wrote the checks for the development find out what their precious software did upon contact with anons.

C'mon Man! All those grants to take down anons with AI and the fucker comes back making jacked up webbed feet

>>18470470

A few

https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/