i am expecting finance to become scarce and very predatory , now FMG has a fair chance of being self-funding from here , so maybe down-sized future projects should be factored in ( and you can be delighted by any over-achievement )Yep, firstly Forrest says it’s $50 Billion not $100’s of Billions.
But what is your point, I read that announcement the day it was released, it’s a non binding MOU, they aren’t locked into anything. Both companies are just committing to work with each other towards the goal of shipping hydrogen from Australia to Europe. If 2030 comes and FMG is only shipping 1 million tonnes instead of 5 million tonnes there is no penalty.
As I said FMG will just crunch the numbers on each project, line them up in order of most profitable, and start working on them, and as long as each one produces decent returns on capital FMG will do very well and financing them will be easy.
But, there is no penalty if they don’t achieve all projects they can dream up in the next 10 years, a big part of a company like FMG, BHP, RIO etc etc is lining up as many possible projects as you can and then have them compete for capital, and you allocate capital to each project based on its merit, when you have the funding to do it.
Well we will have to see I guess, I think there will still be a very active corporate bond market in the USA and Europe, interest rates will probably return to more normal levels, but there will be no change to the old system of financing companies and projects with both equity and bonds.i am expecting finance to become scarce and very predatory , now FMG has a fair chance of being self-funding from here , so maybe down-sized future projects should be factored in ( and you can be delighted by any over-achievement )
If needed they could do that, but nothing fundamental about the investment world is going to change, there will still be loads of people looking to invest money and earn a return, and if they don’t want to do so by investing in bonds, then they will do so by investing in equity, and there is nothing stopping FMG bringing on equity partners if they needed to.yes FMG has the ability to say slash the div. payout to say 40% and progress these new projects
but maybe you need to watch the discussions in the recent WEF meeting , the gathering of senior bankers ( and former bankers ) including Mark Carney , on the planning of future finance and 'net-zero'
maybe , time will tellAndrew lays down a challenge to the fossil fuel industry.
Not sure what your point is there, in the video I posted Andrew says he is also grateful for what the fossil fuels have provided over the last couple of hundred years, but it’s time to change, nostalgia over stories of relatives finding spilled coal won’t bring our economy into the future.maybe , time will tell
maybe that is just me because my parent and grand-parents were grateful for they coal the found near the train-tracks in the Great Depression
I don't know about that, energy coal use has been in decline everywhere except Asia, and in Asia it has plateaued and looks like it’s about to begin declining to.i think coal's demise has been forecast prematurely ,
but time will tell , i also think Twiggy will regret this as there is a rather large untapped coal deposit right next door on the NST lease
That sounds rather amazingly excessive doesn't ? That "somehow" the cost of the world going totally renewable will be $86,237 Trillion dollars. Particularly when the figure for the whole world GDP is $75.59 trillion dollars.Here is some interesting math. 14420 Mtoe (Million tonnes of oil equivalents) was reported as being used in the world...
1 Mtoe = 11.63 TW...
1 TW = 1,000,000 MW. So 1.677X 10^11 MW is how many MW the world uses... About 11% of the world energy production is renewable... So 1.49X10^11 MW of additional renewable energy is needed. If it costs $260 billion for 450 MW... Then $86,237,432 Billion ($86,237 trillion) would be needed to go all renewable energy... The gross world product is $75.59 Trillion dollars... If all of the gross world product would be used to convert to renewable energy, it will take 1140.85 years....
The human race better learn how to adopt to a greener earth with more water and more plant life if CO2 is that detrimental...
it might be worth considering that we are on the edge of runaway inflation , $US 86 trillion might be Australia's national debt by 2032 , interest rates of 20% p.a. are not unheard of even in the developed world ( go back to the 1970's )That sounds rather amazingly excessive doesn't ? That "somehow" the cost of the world going totally renewable will be $86,237 Trillion dollars. Particularly when the figure for the whole world GDP is $75.59 trillion dollars.
This is an impossible figure. Just common sense would cause one to reject the figure as clearly a mistake. Do you want to recheck your figures dat 111111111.. ?
For a more realistic appraisal check this out. (But lets stick to FMG ok ?)
Renewable energy is cheaper than previously thought, says a new report - and could be a gamechanger in the climate change battle.
Technological innovation has led to dramatic price reductions of wind and solar energy and helped to boost demand. But will prices continue to fall?www.weforum.org
Dat1111111111 is going to freak out when he realises that if everyone in the world bought a $5 Starbucks every day for a year it’s going to cost the world $14 Trillion dollars, and between now an 2032 that’s going to be $140 Trillion dollars, the world can’t possibly afford that many pumpkin spiced lattes, there fore Star bucks business model must be bunk.That sounds rather amazingly excessive doesn't ? That "somehow" the cost of the world going totally renewable will be $86,237 Trillion dollars. Particularly when the figure for the whole world GDP is $75.59 trillion dollars.
This is an impossible figure. Just common sense would cause one to reject the figure as clearly a mistake. Do you want to recheck your figures dat 111111111.. ?
For a more realistic appraisal check this out. (But lets stick to FMG ok ?)
Renewable energy is cheaper than previously thought, says a new report - and could be a gamechanger in the climate change battle.
Technological innovation has led to dramatic price reductions of wind and solar energy and helped to boost demand. But will prices continue to fall?www.weforum.org
Divs, imagine you go to a supermarket and fill up your trolley as per normal. You know that normally the ticket would be $140-$180.it might be worth considering that we are on the edge of runaway inflation , $US 86 trillion might be Australia's national debt by 2032 , interest rates of 20% p.a. are not unheard of even in the developed world ( go back to the 1970's )
Also, Inflation isn't an argument against investing in infrastructure at all, given that the price you could sell the energy for over the next 30 years would be increasing with inflation, then such an investment would be an awesome inflation hedge, much like someone that bought a house in 1990 for $70,000 is now renting it out for $20,000 per year, its much better than a term deposit or holding cash.Divs, imagine you go to a supermarket and fill up your trolley as per normal. You know that normally the ticket would be $140-$180.
The checkout assistant punches out a bill for $823.55c or ,say, $1506.80 or $10,643.55. You don't need a maths degree to realise there is something seriously wrong with the bill. Your sense of what a basket of groceries should cost is enough for you to say "please recount" - even if the assistant insists that the till never makes a mistake.
The analysis and calculations offered by Div are similarly ludicrous. There is no universe in which replacing the worlds current energy supply with renewables will cost S86,237 trillion dollars (in current value). Going back to the supermarket example it is the equivalent of the checkout operator insisting that the $10k bill is right because the till says so. I offered a competent source which illustrates how much cheaper renewable energy is that any fossil fuel based system.
Perhaps Dat can recheck his calculations and discover where he made a thousand fold mistake - and thats only in the arithmetic
With a start-up energy business attached.True.... FMG is an IRON ORE play.
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