Canadian postdoc in Japan. Energy, sustainability, unrelated ramblings.
Growing up ~800 km from the nearest large city is the source of many many stories I am not posting on social media.
dannyodwyergrowing up in a remote city is months and years of utter banality, pierced with the most nutso, random shit you will ever hear about. I didn't realize until I moved away. like the time I found a man and woman stuck inside of one of those clothes donation bins. funniest 999 call I ever made.
The city I live in really does have the funniest airport code.
Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash!An argument I have made for almost a decade at this point lol. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGjA... In general, if anyone says they want to be "the Saudi Arabia of [topic]", they do not understand resources, supply chains, logistics, or the unique historical accidents that enabled the Gulf.
Canada’s Energy Superpower Dream Is a Delusion, Economist WarnsYouTube video by Energi Mediawww.youtube.comI remain very curious what prices, discounts, and dilutions are necessary to take dilbit into refineries built for light sweet crudes from the Gulf. As far as I’ve ever been able to find no one in Asia has refineries built around this.
Al Jazeera EnglishUncertainty over crude oil supplies via the Strait of Hormuz is pushing Asian states towards Canada's TMX crude oil.
