Drue Pearce to attend natural gas meeting in Fairbanks tonight
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Pearce, who has led the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation Project since 2006, said Monday she’d leave the post later this winter.
She stated President Barack Obama had asked for her resignation.
Pearce will headline, along with the state’s resource and revenue commissioners, a public meeting at West Valley High School’s auditorium from 6-8 p.m.
“Every opportunity for Alaskans to learn about the project is important,” Pearce wrote Monday in an e-mail to the Daily News-Miner.
State Sen. Joe Thomas and Reps. Mike Kelly and David Guttenberg organized the meeting.
It comes two months before state lawmakers return to Juneau. Talk of the prospect that a massive natural gas pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope could be built has escalated in recent weeks, as has some skepticism surrounding a two-year-old state act aimed at spurring construction.
“This event is a great opportunity for Fairbanks to have their questions answered about the natural gas (pipeline) proposals, the players and the impact to the area,” a synopsis from Guttenberg’s office announcing the meeting states.
Pat Galvin and Tom Irwin, the state’s revenue and resource commissioners, also will attend tonight’s meeting.
If you go
What: Community meeting on natural gas development
When: Tonight
6-8 p.m.
Where: West Valley High School auditorium
Who: State commissioners Pat Galvin and Tom Irwin; federal pipeline coordinator Drue Pearce
My prior experience building insulated polypipe for Alaskan pipeline market dates back to 1980..
..but I began thinking of passing Alaskan gas with polypipe in 1974 when I first saw polypipe being used for small gas applications.
Yes, it's possible for Alaskans to build a Cryogenic LNG 5bcfd gasline from Deadhorse to Valdez and Anchorage...
thus locating several FLNG-barges in PrudhoeBay.
All of the pipe can be manufactured in Alaska from polyolefin-resins made from Alaska's ethane too..
..thus creating a much smaller overall global carbon footprint.
[act locally, think globally]
PermaPipe makes cryogenic pipeline products somewhat similar to what I have in mind for making a 5bcfd methane pipeline 800 miles long.
I have designs worked out for sliplining ice-tunnels 5miles in length using 48" tunnel-moles now common in TrenchlessTech..
building these ice-tunnels will move much less soils and create much less impact on Alaska's wilderness..
no extra roads need to be built too.
Most of the requied technology is "off the shelf" and readily available.
...check it out, think really hard about it, the possibilities are amazing!!
My design incorporates some aspects of tested methodology, but the whole project architecture utilizes Alaskan-Style field-fabrication&install methods that are unique to this project.
Pipe-in-Pipe-in-Pipe Vacuum-Wall reduces overall insulation costs.. and utilizing a small percentage of thinwall core-tube made from coppernickel or stainless-alloy reduces refrigeration energy costs.
Likewise, composite-polymer technology and high-school physics has helped me design a robust subsea pipeline from Valdez to Seattle, and beyond [even Hawaii]
...what's the density of methane when it's in a plastic-pipe 15,000 below sealevel??
What's the electrical conductivity of methane in these conditions?
http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk209/DistantThunderbolt/?start=all
My primary goal in selecting this design is Cost Containment, but as I think about it more it also achieves many more objectives..
..short timeline for full installation and operation, minimal environmental impact, robust reliable secure design, etc...etc..
..literally 100times better than a big 1950's steel whopper pipeline.
Better in oh, so many ways !!
pssst! It's the 21stCentury, not the 12thCentury !!
...and Alberta does NOT need Alaska's gas to further muck up their tarsands into the atmosphere.. we have new solutions for that problem too. [superheterodyne klystron gasification and in-situ capacitative nanocatalytic deionization will save groundwater quality]
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Q: "the ethane plant to build your pipe comes first.
all out of steel.
1. is it on on the North Slope or where?"
A: IMHO the chicken&egg situation of the ethane-polyolefin plant(s) is not really a deal killer for this cryogenic pipe plan..
[ok,maybe the polypellet will be only 95% Alaskan Made, so? .. all of the polypellet doesn't need to be made in one production plant, actually it can't be because of total volumes]
it's location for production of the required 316,800 tons of polypellet is largely irrelevant because ethane can be shipped in a refrigerated-LPG carrier ship.. these ships are much less expensive than LNG-carriers..
we can buy one LPG-carrier tomorrow for $2.5million.
http://www.shiplink.info/contents1.asp?refno=27992
http://www.ngl.co.jp/e_ship15.html
Where is there an idled polyolefin plant now??--> Chocolate Bayou,Texas is one.
The Llyondell-Basel plant there..
and UIG-Anchorage does have the maritime assets and manpower required to relocate this polyolefin plant onto a group of barges to make it into a Floating-PolyO-plant.
[much the same as a FLNG]
A Floating-PolyO-plant can be parked in PrudhoeBay for a while and then moved back to Cook Inlet.. it's total size will be much less than the proposed SeaLift N-slope Gas-Processing Facility the producers have planned now.
Alaska has so much ethane to process into polypellet we can build 10 FPOP's and still need more.
Another small PolyO-plant can be built in Fairbanks from prefab modules hauled up on truck, or barge.. yes, Fairbanks is barge accessible during breakup.. [yes, I've been a contender in the Tanana River Raft Race too.]
Actually StevensVillage would be a better place to locate a FPOP if we can squeeze it under the bridge, or Sightas Island would work too.
How do we first get 100,000 tons of ethane to Fairbanks??
http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk209/DistantThunderbolt/?action=view¤t=6inchgaslineP2FBX.jpg
How do we double the capacity to Fairbanks?..Build a 2nd little quickie polypipe gasline for $45mil.
....all this fiddling with FPOP's and petrochemical-plants still points everything into the right direction, and it will still take much less steel overall than building the megalomaniac megawhopper to the tarpits of Alberta.
..my footprints are less carbonaceous and more hydrogenic.
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Q: 2. will your pipe handle 2500 psi??
A: This is a CRYOGENIC pipe, it doesn't need to operate at 2500 psi for it to pass 5billion cube feet per day of methane to Valdez or Anchorage.
Yeah, I'll add some basalt-fiber to the insulation to make it bulletproof, and make Gazprom nervous..ha ha.
And the cost per installed linear foot of this new fangled cryopipe is still less than 50% the cost of equivalent steel pipe for passing the same amount of methane.
...now i suppose somebody is gonna quiz me on how to build in the production surge capacity from a high-pressure 9000psi 10tcf champagne-gasfield such as Pt.Thomsen???
I'll save that for my next comment if you really want to know.
[hint: methane hydrate, is one of several elegant options]
Financing? Alaska has propane/butane..
WallStreet is just like LasVegas..
propane is as good as gold..
it's more fungible than donutdollars..
I used to trade furs and nuggets at the TradingPost..
..I know how to do it with propane too.
Alaska does not need WallStreet..
Alaska lost $12billion from the PermanentFund into WallStreet's Blackhole last year..
..mental illness is doing the same wrong self-destructive things over and over again expecting improved results every time.
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Thanks for the fantastic links, DT. Isn't it maddening watching the 1950s mentality in the 21st century?! It's just too bad Alaska has lost its pioneer spirit and is content to remain in the pockets of big oil.
Your links on oilgae were great, and here's another other clean, sustainable fuel source that grows like a weed:-) http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/hempfuel.htm
http://www.hemphasis.net/Fuel-Energy/fuel.htm
After the 40 years of broken promises since TAPS was constructed .. "Where is the Beef (natural gas)?" .. that was tooted all them decades ago?
I am all for an INVENTORY TAX for the squatters on the North Slope natural gas, for starters. And firing foot dragging bureaucrats, for little or no reason at all, too.
See you at the meeting.
The All Alaska Gas Industry does NOT need WallStreet for financing.. we can bootstrap our own thriving and sustainable All-Alaska Gas Industry without outside meddling and muckraking.
If you are a True Alaskan you will read these links carefully..
http://oilsandstruth.org/updated-continental-maps-pipelines-2035?size=large
Looking at this map you'd think that Canada already owns all of Alaska's Gas Resources !!
http://oilsandstruth.org/
[copy and paste these links into your browser window,enter]
If you are a True Alaskan you will read these links carefully..
http://www.billwalkerforgovernor.com/on-the-issues/gasline/
Do this research before today before attending the meeting tonight.. ask these people why their mindset seems to be stuck in the 1950's. Ask them why they are trying to ramrod destructive and inefficient megamonopoly megaprojects down everybody's throats. Tell them this is now the 21stCentury and there are many better alternatives to their megalomaniac initiatives.
AGIA will be remembered as the WPPSS of Alaska.
This project is as stupid as Dr.Edward Teller wanting to explode an H-Bomb over the top of Pt.Thomsen to make a shipping harbor there.
Tell these people to take their bucket of Yellowknife diamonds back to Yellowknife and cleanse themselves in a smokehouse full of sage-smoke, then walk home barefoot in the snow.
The spirit of my Athabaskan grandfather tells me this is WRONG WRONG WRONG, this insanity must stop!!
Here's one of many different good and powerful alternatives to this badly botched hydrocarbon architecture --->
VERTIGROW Glen Kertz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxNeBQCRv1c
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGgZtY1r1R4
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EleWvh8A6p0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkOs0bBPifc
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http://www.oilgae.com
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/02/energix-researc.html
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http://angtl.com/
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http://s281.photobucket.com/albums/kk209/DistantThunderbolt/?start=all
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Main_Page
If you are a True Alaskan you will read these links carefully.
GET off your collectively elected arsses & get something done.
Before we collectively kick your butts out!!!!
The Runner