• Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
    6·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    7 days ago

    Hang on, I’ll ask my bank to give me a small loan of $20 million. I’m sure they will not laugh in my face and tell me to go fuck myself.

    • ReanuKeeves@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      The guy I had told me to pull myself up by the bootstraps and I ended up finding $20 mil in my sock

      • don@lemm.ee
        2·
        7 days ago

        Power of hard work and sacrifice right there, a true testament to the spirit of capitalism. If you can, all can.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
    3·
    7 days ago

    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.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • febra@lemmy.world
    1·
    7 days ago

    Yeah I’ll just take a small loan of 20 million dollars from my normal worker parents…

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      I love the idea of a bunch of rando’s purchasing LNG shipping and just thinking… step one, done… step two, profit!

      it’s so fantastically complex it’s hilarious

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
    0·
    6 days ago

    Hello I would like to go into $19.990.000 debt please. I need to buy a LNG tanker for reasons…

      • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
        0·
        7 days ago

        Eh. Methane is worse when it’s released as a gas than when it’s burned and released as carbon dioxide. If you drive by oil refineries in Beaumont, TX, you’ll see them burning off methane–flaring–because it’s a byproduct of oil refining. Is any of this great, or even good? No; any way you slice it, it’s all greenhouse gasses. OTOH, there are far fewer other pollutants with LNG than there are from coal-fired plants, and we don’t yet have the capacity to generate sufficient power using renewables or nuclear. (Meanwhile, a lot of hydro power is at risk because climate change has shifted rain and snow patterns so that rivers and reservoirs are drying up so that we’re losing that source of renewable power.)

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          7 days ago

          yeeeah but:

          the impacts of methane releases which spike with burnoff impact the atmosphere for decades. we’re continuing to feed it.
          coal - for all it’s wretched problems from heavy metals to black lungs - added particulates that cut down on absorbed heat in the atmosphere.

          we’re seeing the same unanticipated effect with the move from the worst bunker fuel (high sulphate) may let in more heating energy because we’re taking the worst fine particulate exhausts out… https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-how-low-sulphur-shipping-rules-are-affecting-global-warming/

          some times you’re damned if you do and you’re damned if you don’t. That said, both the transition to cleaner fuel and the end of coal need to happen, but also we need to start planning for the end of LNG as well.

          good luck, have fun friends

          • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
            0·
            6 days ago

            I remember the 80s when high sulphur coal was the norm, and we had problem with the sulphur emissions causing acid rain; I def. don’t want to return to that…

            Related - I saw a science alert that speculated that we could buy time to cut carbon emissions by seeding the atmosphere with superfine diamond dust; it would both block and reflect solar radiation. The downside? About $250T in cost.

            • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              6 days ago

              I remember the 80s when high sulphur coal was the norm, and we had problem with the sulphur emissions causing acid rain; I def. don’t want to return to that…

              ah yes, my youth…

              edit: $250 per ton sounds cheap if it works.

              of course it’ll probably blind the penguins or some other horrible shit. monkey’s paw we live in and all.

  • MsPenguinette@lemmy.world
    0·
    7 days ago

    You can’t argue with that price. A new one will set you back 80-250 mil. Crazy that people are sleeping on opportunities like this

      • pencil_nerd@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        7 days ago

        I’m $100k in the hole due to boomer parents telling me to get student loans for college since they blew all their money on stupid investment schemes, so can I give you an IOU or maybe like a hug or a handshake or something?