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One of my high school teachers retired and bought a river paddle boat to put a restaurant on it. The idea was to cruise the local bay and provide a nice dining experience. Two years into owning it, the hull started leaking quite substantially. Apparently, the hull had not been maintained properly over the years and was now dangerously thin. The boat ended up being scrap. I guess they weren’t bringing in enough profit with it sailing, they didn’t even try to land lock it.
Damn, I’m in my late 30s, too late *sadface
Be me Get job as Outbound Sales Consultant for ENGIE No idea how to sell LNG tankers to general public Post to LinkedIn that people should just buy one
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For some reason the bank won’t let me take out an 8 figure loan to start my international piracy business. I’ll be starting up a gofundme.
All you need to do is find a stretchy guy made of rubber
You’ve got to stare hard at the bank manager and say, “look at me. I’m the borrower now.”
Hello I would like to go into $19.990.000 debt please. I need to buy a LNG tanker for reasons…
Look at you with $10,000 spare. Show-off
I am living the dream!
Am about $140k in debt right now. Housing ain’t cheap
Hi, is this product still available?
I have 20 cents for a down payment.
Dump terrifying greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere at industrial levels, go into debt if you have to.
I’m contributing valiantly to this cause with my farts
You basically just described the energy/economic strategy of most of the world’s countries…
“I bought cardboard when it was 14 cents a ton.”
(ha - getaway car)
I eat enough beans that my body qualifies
Hereby I name you “The Vessel”
Oh my
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Ima just leave this here, Climate Town’s discussion of Natural Gas (or what we call Methane. Fart gas.)
He explains how it’s a LNG is really fucking everyone over. Some points:
- NG infrastructure is leaky and causes lots of non-point-source pollution.
- Methane was supposed to be a transitional energy source as we moved towards renewables, but instead we’re leaning heavily on methane while China is securing all the science patents and materials for solar.
- LNG is super inefficient. I think like 20% of it is used up in the liquification process, which is required for transit overseas. This is to sell it to nations abroad.
- Since we’re really trying to get to renewables, everyone buying LNG is a jerk, and everyone selling it is also a jerk.
- If even one of these supertankers has a rupture incident, it will fuck the Earth, and I’ll be sore as I watch wildfire ravage California, and by east coast buddies get hammered by hurricanes. Also we’ll be closer to permanent drought and then global famine.
- Seriously, Methane is bad. NG infrastructure should be moved away from as quickly as possible. LNG is really extra super bad, and can ruin our kids’ futures.
For anyone seriously considering this: don’t.
“The LNG market is set to rapidly grow” is a lie. Economies are shifting away from fossil fuels, and i guess by 2040 no metric ton of fossil fuels will be transported anymore.
This is a waste of money. They just want to get rid of their end-of-use LNG tankers. So they are looking for idiots to buy them.
I dunno about that. Based on this US data, its use seems to be expanding, even more so than renewables: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/
This graph in particular shows this:
Me when I spread misinformation online!
Could LNG tankers be retrofit to move Hydrogen? I could see some potential there.
Too late, already bought 5
Wow, you must be loaded. My bank only allowed me to take out a loan for 3.
Pfft idk, seems like maybe you just want to buy up all the tankers for yourself.
no no, in fact i can sell you mine, too, if you want to, for a meager $24 million. same model as in the picture
$18,500,350 and you got yourself a deal!
For anyone seriously considering this: how the fuck did you end up with that kind of money in your early twenties? Either you’re business savvy in which case you won’t consider this or daddy’s rich in which case you should talk to your dad first.
Considering the value of the cargo, if you had that type of money to throw around, you could probably make a pretty profit. Fully loaded one of these tankers holds between $100,000,000 to $200,000,000 of LNG.
Assuming a modest 3% profit margin, though I suspect that you could achieve 5% easily, you’d pay back the ship with 4 full shipments. Since at 3% you’d have 6 million in profit per trip.
You get a small loan of 20 million dollars from your patents, obviously
I’ll assume you mean parents because you’d have to be one heck of an inventor
or find the right sucker
by 2040 no metric ton of fossil fuels will be transported anymore
I seriously doubt it. Many countries are decarbonising like the UK has by getting rid of coal fired power stations and switching to renewables plus gas, because gas is a good way to solve the intermittency issues you get with many renewables. 2040 is not very far away, on that timescale the demand for LNG may actually go up.
Economies are shifting away from fossil fuels, and i guess by 2040 no metric ton of fossil fuels will be transported anymore.
We’ve got far too much legacy infrastructure and far too little public investment to ditch the vast number of small, cheap, highly lucrative LNG electricity plants scattered through North America and Western Europe.
And with energy demand continuously outpacing supply in the near future, even the green power we do build will be absorbed by the electricity ravenous date centers we’re constructing.
I’ve definitely had natural gas that turned out to be liquefied. Luckily, I was on the toilet already.
Buying a boat is a famously good investment
Thanks for the advice!
It’s such a good investment that it’s why insurance was invented.
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