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#Bestof2022: 2/2: #Energy: Port of Corpus Christi preps for global demand. Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, Contributing Editor, & author, Spaceport Earth. @PappalardoJoe (Originally posted May 22, 2022)

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#Bestof2022: 2/2: #Energy: Port of Corpus Christi preps for global demand. Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, Contributing Editor, & author, Spaceport Earth. @PappalardoJoe (Originally posted May 22, 2022)

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This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bats for visiting with Joseph Papalardo,

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writing at popular mechanics and other distinguished publications about energy at Corpus Christi, Texas.

0:36.0

We've spoken of oil and the oil pipelines and where it comes from.

0:40.0

And big tankers, very large container tankers coming into the expanding channel.

0:47.0

But LNG, Europe needs LNG. They need to build facilities to receive it.

0:53.0

And they're waiting in the transition from dependent upon the extremely predatory Russian energy fields.

1:01.0

LNG has to be processed. Joe takes me to Chenier.

1:06.0

Is that how I say a Joe Chenier? That's correct. Chenier.

1:09.0

And what is there for the cost 15 billion dollars? What am I looking at?

1:15.0

It is a free standing gas processing facility.

1:18.0

It's a basically a huge distillery that takes natural gas in Texas oil fields and converts it into liquid natural gas that can be shipped out to customers around the globe.

1:30.0

And that has, that's a new industry down here since 2015.

1:36.0

But you know, the stakes are extremely high and it's now a global epicenter of liquid natural gas exports.

1:45.0

It looks like a construction set of played by a child and said, how many different ways can you put a pipe together?

1:53.0

What's it like to be inside Joe? Do you get lost?

1:57.0

It's extremely disorienting. Everything is built enormous.

2:01.0

It reminded me of a science fiction movie set in that, you know, the valves were enormous and the pipes were enormous.

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