Natural gas is only 42 years away

A gas meter on the pipeline system in Ukraine on January 1, the day that Russia's Gazprom cut gas supplies to its neighbors.(Mr. VTV)

When cooking rice is out of gas, just call, after a few minutes, the service will wait for a new gas tank to come to your house. Too convenient. But 42 years from now, digging up the whole earth doesn't have any gas anymore. The gas clash between Ukraine and Russia once again caused people to be alarmed about the limited availability of this fuel source.

Confucius knew how to use gas

Of course, there were no convenient gas stoves like today. But according to Khong Tu's record, perhaps the first Chinese people to take advantage of the gas emitted from the cracks in the soil. Gradually, they dug deep into the soil to exploit gas vents, making bamboo pipes. The gas areas near the sea also know to use gas to evaporate seawater to get salt.

Today, this fast-growing Chinese hoobae has reached 1.3 billion and is considered to be the main reason for the global gas price increase. Remembering the concept of "oil crisis" that was born three decades ago, the world first learned how to shudder when it came to realize how energy-dependent today is.

But the cause for the conflict in the oil well was political, that is, there was a cure. "Gas crisis" is probably also a new phrase. It was noticeable when Russia threatened to cut gas supplies to Ukraine in the middle of a cold winter. Fortunately, the two sides came to an agreement, but many American families this year began to suffer from gas shortages, not just because of the hurricanes off the Gulf of Mexico.

May God "warm up"

The US gas crisis is different from the nature of conflict between Russia and its neighbor or the OPEC countries' artificial price policy. Gas, a natural resource that needs millions of years in special conditions to form, is running out!

Never before has the US energy industry spent as much money and effort as it does today to exploit gas inland as well as in the sea - that's the amount of gas needed for current production and consumption needs. Not to mention development.

To this day, the northern neighbor, a large, sparsely populated country with rich minerals, is still considered a strong rear, but even Canada has felt a concern rising like dark clouds. energy horizon: 2003 was the first year on Canada to consume more gas than it had discovered, so the reserves of exploited gas sources were considered to be more than they really were, in other words, Canadians nibble on dry food.

This winter has just begun to be predicted as a major cold spell for the North American continent. There have been and will be many families who do not have enough energy to run a heater, and many companies would rather fire workers than produce things through the winter. American land has a lot of devotees, and in their prayers they have added the phrase "May God be warmed up", like Diana Munns of the Chamber of Commerce told "US News" magazine.

Gas market

Since 1983 the amount of gas consumed on the earth has increased by 75%, partly because of being "known" as a (relatively) clean energy because it does not produce sulfur causing acid rain. In an age where the awareness of protecting the ecological environment is growing, from the 1970s, many techniques of using coal and oil have been changed to gas.

The gas market differs from the oil market, concentrating in three regions: the US, Europe and Asia / Pacific. The simple reason is that the gas is only transported economically through the pipeline, and so the Gulf oil operators burn gas away with kerosene, not thinking about trading it.

Qatar, an Arab emirate, ranks third after Russia and Iran on gas exploitation, following a different path. In 1971 on the coast of Qatar discovered the world's largest gas reserves, and they knew how to turn "useless" gas into a terrible source of interest. At Ra Laffan port, there is the largest gas liquefaction technique in the world. At minus temperature 160oC gas shrinks to only 1/615 initial volume and liquefaction, can transport by large ships around the world, of course to the United States. This new road of Qatar creates a "fashion" to close gas tankers. This year, the number of special vessels to carry liquid gas will double that of the previous century.

Future

Unlike oil, the amount of gas used does not occupy much of the total exploited. But beware of the oil nightmare, mankind makes calculations with today's consumption momentum, how much longer it will take to run out of gas. The predicted number of 67 years is not allowed to make us less impatient, because experience shows that such models of calculation are wrong because the fact of developing more dynamically conjectures, not to mention the habit of using gas is increasing. Paying attention to that dynamism, gas reserves will be depleted by humans in the next 42 years. Oil is twice as fast.

The situation cannot be different that in the coming years customers will increasingly pay higher gas prices. There are no potential sources of energy for oil and gas, including nuclear energy.

Whereas the Chinese 2,500 years ago knew how to use gas, in another civilized cradle, such as Greece or Persia, people still panicked and fell to the "eternal" fire caused by lightning created by the flow of air. out on the ground. Today we know that the fire cannot burn "forever", but when it turns out after 42 years, what will happen - nobody knows .