Chris Bruce

I'm gonna be honest with you energy twitter - and I've already told the nuke bros - I used to be a big fan of feed in tarrifs for wind power. Back in 2015 when I ran for the NL NDP it was my central energy policy. I was looking at Germany with stars in my eyes. (1/x)

@mmm_btus I got this tweet two days late but it just means your dust bowl post if REALLY gonna pop when it does

portfolio LNG supply contracts gonna go extinct

@CTVNews The coalition of 'Horny for War' steps up for another task they literally do not have the capacity to do

#BREAKING: Canada, allies ready to ‘contribute to appropriate efforts’ on Strait of Hormuz blockage ctvnews.ca/world/mideast-…

Mark Carney: Horny for War

BOMBSHELL: Epstein's accountant testified that the estate settled with Jane Doe 4 for BOTH Epstein and Trump. Her files were completely hidden until Trump bombed Iran to change the subject. The coverup is unraveling on live TV.

Everyone who loves planes knows the odd videos of the propellor spinning backwards. This is a very interesting example of some thing similar to what happens when you try to do vibration analysis using a signal which has been captured at an insufficient data-rate, when the sample points are taken at just under the actual frequency, Aliasing begins, the effect of this is to give a "false return" that a source signal contains a lower frequency than it actually does. Here the propellor frequency is higher than the frame rate of the camera, the frames are taken at the position of the yellow dots in the image below, whilst the actual propellor frequency is the pink curve. To (nearly) guarantee this doesnt happen, you need to sample at ABOVE TWICE the highest source frequency. At certain relationships between the source and sample frequency, the blade can appear not only to spin too slowly, but actually spin backwards. Picture it like watching a propellor spin, and give your eyes an infinitely fast shutter speed, now if you "blink" at a speed just a bit SLOWER than the propellor blade passing frequency, it will appear to spin backwards. The "frames per second" of the video camera, is you blinking. This is known as the Nyquist Rate, which was just the name of the person who figured this out, Harry Nyquist, he was born Swedish and so has an "odd" name, later setting in the USA. Its essentially common sense really, but Nyquist conducted the early work, it was later formalised in 1949 and thereafter known as the Nyquist-Shannon Theorem. This is one reason why it is very important if you are interested in serious damage prevention and analysis, that your data logger is sampling at the highest practical frequency, and needs some internal cleverness, to "chop away" any frequencies which are above the Nyquist limit, before they are stored, because if you dont, you can store false vibration frequencies. In an air accident investigation, this may become very problematic, especially when audio from amateur video is used as a data source where it has very possibly been recorded without being first passed through an anti-aliasing filter. Interestingly much the same thing happens in 2D images ! Which is why the term "anti aliasing" is known to all computer nerds in a non-audio context.

Carney is rat fucking us on not going to war with Iran. A military operation in the strait is joining the war.

@DeepDishEnjoyer Bro wanted two birthdays in a row

im what you can call a trading vet. ive seen this story before ill call everything right and then somehow miraculously fail to make any money

Helium is the only element that escapes Earth’s atmosphere permanently. Once released, it rises through the troposphere, passes the stratosphere, and leaves the planet. It cannot be manufactured. It cannot be synthesised at industrial scale. It accumulates over billions of years in the same geological reservoirs as natural gas. And one third of the world’s supply just went offline because Iran hit the facility that extracts it. Qatar produced roughly 63 million cubic metres of helium in 2025, accounting for 30 to 36 percent of global supply from a total of approximately 190 million cubic metres. QatarEnergy’s three large helium purification plants at Ras Laffan form the world’s biggest helium production base. When LNG production stopped after Iranian drone strikes on March 2 and the subsequent missile damage on March 19, helium extraction stopped automatically because helium is recovered during natural gas liquefaction. You cannot produce helium without producing LNG. The byproduct dies with the primary product. Spot helium prices have roughly doubled since the crisis began. Industry consultants warn that prolonged disruption could push contract prices toward $2,000 per thousand cubic feet. A major industrial gas supplier has already begun assessing customers a helium surcharge. Phil Kornbluth, the most cited helium market consultant, stated the assessment directly: the world cannot compensate for the loss of a third of its helium supply. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. SK Hynix and Samsung operate high-volume fabs producing the DRAM and high-bandwidth memory that power every AI accelerator, every data centre GPU, and every cloud computing cluster on Earth. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication. It serves as a carrier gas in deposition and etching tools. It enables leak detection in vacuum systems. Modern extreme ultraviolet lithography requires helium-cooled environments for precise temperature control. Without helium, the fabrication process degrades or stops. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Two to three months is not a buffer. It is a countdown. If Ras Laffan remains offline beyond that window, South Korean memory production faces rationing. TSMC in Taiwan is somewhat more diversified but still uses Qatar-linked supply chains. The entire AI hardware supply chain, from HBM3E memory stacks to advanced logic chips, sits inside helium-dependent ecosystems. Beyond semiconductors, helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines operating worldwide. It pressurises rocket fuel tanks and purges propulsion systems in aerospace. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider depends on helium cryogenic systems. There is no substitute for helium in any of these applications at industrial scale. The United States and Qatar together account for more than 70 percent of global production. The US federal helium reserve and private suppliers offer partial relief, but global prices and spot availability are still governed by Qatar’s market share. Japan’s Iwatani has drawn on US reserves. Canada and the Rockies are seeing renewed investor interest. None of this replaces 63 million cubic metres in weeks. The war hit uranium first. Then oil. Then nitrogen. Then water. Then plastic. Then medicine. Then sulfur. Now helium. Eight layers. Each one deeper. Each one closer to the infrastructure that sustains modern civilisation. The chip that processes your data, the magnet that scans your body, and the rocket that launches your satellite all depend on an atom that leaves the planet when you lose it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

*deep breath* Let's fucking go

QatarLNGの船舶運航会社、Nakilatが追加でLNG船をリース市場に出す規模によって、停止期間がある程度予測できそう。10-30隻なら数か月、40隻以上なら施設損傷は重大で、Qatar Energyは復旧まで年単位と考えている可能性があると推測。

@MalcolmRaw99915 Being wrong is great, you get to be right later.

@nukefoundland Chris, it is very rare for someone to admit they are wrong, let alone politicians. So while our political views are far apart I applaud you for your courage. It is always wise to consult with people who know how these systems actually work before jumping of the bandwagon.

I'm gonna be honest with you energy twitter - and I've already told the nuke bros - I used to be a big fan of feed in tarrifs for wind power. Back in 2015 when I ran for the NL NDP it was my central energy policy. I was looking at Germany with stars in my eyes. (1/x)

@MatthewWithy @ScottLuft I can't say they never gave me anything

@nukefoundland @ScottLuft The hat and sandwiches gag had me chuckling too.

beautiful 🧵 quotes: -Wow, that's a lot of not-money; -the bag has showed up and it's pretty big; -Students who studied wind turbines are left without work -I got a hat and a few free sandwiches out of it and I think I did better than anyone else in the province on the deal;

@kogasman yeah but whats a bag of 100 yuan even worth?

@nukefoundland You probably thinkin this dummy hustling everyday for scraps when I'm sitting on a 100 bagger

lil long at 94.5 looks like it wants to hold for lil bit

@kogasman Literally yes

@ScottLuft @ProfAvenarius The North Atlantic project is something like 1/10th the size the full scale wegh2 build out. It's a much more appropriate scale, and they have infrared across the pond already.

@ProfAvenarius @nukefoundland you may be right, but imo the next project is just going to be perceived by many as the next grift - if we don't sanction bad actors.

@hibakod You'll sleep better without the humming of electronics!

One strong electromagnetic pulse can send us back 100 years. That’s what keeps me up at night.

@RBehiel @croissanthology Make em fold proteins and save lives

@croissanthology Any electric heater that’s not mining bitcoin is leaving money on the table.

"crypto and tulip farming" is a very funny bit

@northgowerwind Some day I'll tell the tale of the Stephenville airport

Incredible. Diary of a scam. Read the whole thread.