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Posted on July 4 at 11:08 a.m. (Suggest removal)
internationa...
yes, interesting link to der Spiegel.
It shows to go ya, about how the big fish eat the little fish.
The state of AK [and all other gummervints in america] wittingly/unwittingly ensure the big fish will always dominate the little fish.
Take Frank Pringle for example, his technology can totally transform how humans deal with hydrocarbons from A to Z.
http://www.globalresourcecorp.com/Engine...
Recently big-oil in Houston has invited him in to begin "signing papers".. the press says big-oil is interested in "reducing viscosity in pipelines".. [bye-bye Frank!!]
If Juneau would support a klystron-hydrocarbon research facility for Fairbanks the "bang for the buck" would be a God-Send for Alaskans.
Don't hold your breath for this to happen.
"Just why do think we call ourselves The Power Company"
...it's because we train you in school how to obediently play "Heads We Win, tails you lose"
Does anybody have any info that this $21billion will actually be an "incubator fund" for small biz ???
BigOil and Government both have oil for blood..
and they both suffer the same braindamage caused by contagious hemotoxic pathogens.
Alternative Energy research in Alaska will end up being a big handout to Beyond Petroleum.
Fisher-Tropsch in Alaska will just be another conglomerate empire while small-biz will always be cannon fodder.
Conglomerates are bigger than most nations, but they don't recognize borders or boundaries, or laws.
......flash/rumble
On Harris, Whitaker call for multibillion-dollar action on Alaska energy plan
Posted on July 4 at 10:05 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Every day there is more methane leaking out of the North Slope and getting lost to atmosphere than a big steel pipeline will ever send to Canada.
This lost orphan methane is 23times more powerful greenhouse-gas than CO2.
A network of HDPE-gas-gathering pipes will quickly amortize.
www.fairbanksgas.com
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A natural-gas electric powerplant on the North Slope???
NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NO,NOT!! NOPE!!!
WHY???
....it will make too much heat in a thermal-danger zone.
Just fly over Prudhoe while wearing infrared goggles, you'll get the picture.
....Where to put a NS-gas powerplant then??
====anywhere south of Sukakpak Mountain.
HDPE-gasline can quickly hook it up to NS-gas.
www.fairbanksgas.com
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Denying Alaskans access to their own hydrocarbons is just plain nuts.
It's like Kansas telling it's citizens they can't eat wheat...
.."All wheat must be exported to Mexico to meet the policy of monetization, this is how the lawyers interpret the state constitution"...
this is the same type of logic Josef Stalin used in the Ukraine in 1932, and it killed millions [several of my 2nd cousins too]
NUTS!!!
nuts, I tell you, just plain nuts
Don't send a lawyer to get a gallon of milk out of a cow..
he will burn the barn down every time.
......flash/rumble
On Harris, Whitaker call for multibillion-dollar action on Alaska energy plan
Posted on July 3 at 5:58 p.m. (Suggest removal)
There's more hydrocarbons in all of the junk tires, and garbage dumps in the lowdown48 than there is in ANWR.
It will take years to get the resources in ANWR to market.
Getting the hydrocarbons out of America's junk has already begun and is rapidly growing.
Take another nap Uncle Ted, it's just a bad dream...
http://www.globalresourcecorp.com/Engine...
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Posted on July 3 at 3:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)
BigMike..
check out this link..
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&...
On the FastFusion website they estimate a small crew can lay 7000feet per day with one of their machines.
http://www.fast-fusion.com/products/mft2...
Actually the conditions on the NorthSlope route I show in the slideshow are much more favorable for laying a long distance pipe quickly..
there's no taverns within 100miles, so the crew doesn't have to worry about hangovers.
It's as flat as a bowling alley for most of the route in winter.
The 818,000ft route can be quickly laid out in 2000' long sections when pulled by dozer from 5-pipeyards.
Laying this HDPE pipe is amazingly easy.
The hard part is convincing a bunch of grouchy old Alaskans about how easy this is.
The other hard part is collecting the donations and materials and moving it all to the jobsite.
SCADA keeps us from getting too worried about propane leaks.
Too bad big sections of the old Haines pipe have been ripped up..
using the new pipe-rehab methods it could be reconfigured to ship propane to Haines.
Posted on July 3 at 1:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
nanook1934-----
What is the flow rate for a 4" LPG-gasline??
Oddly, calculating exact pipeflow is an imperfect science.
The calcs quickly snowball into tons of physical variables.
Then the engineering books suggest using "rules of thumb" shortcuts.
So, the easy way to figure it out is to group by relative viscosity at equal temps multiplied by pipe aperture area.
...try this-- LPG flows kinda like water, maybe better.
Take a gas powered fire-pump that builds 200psi at a 4" discharge..
check how fast it pumps water..
wow, that's a lotta water!!!
It's easy to see that a $10mil 4" LPG-gasline will pay itself off really fast if you can keep all the trucks rolling..
then when you finally get the $100mil long noodle gasline to the railbelt at Goldstream you can fill railcars fast enough to pay for the whole project in just a few months.
The 4" LPG-gasline will have many more mini-pumpstations than TAPS..
but the 60hp pumps are much cheaper.
This whole gasline could be built miles away from the HaulRoad because it doesn't need an access road to build and maintain it.
When the weather gets really cold you can blend ethane with the propane for making ArcticMix.. then when it gets really-really cold you can pass pure ethane to storage in Fairbanks for making polyethylene-pellets.
Fairbanks could be making polyethelyne-pellet for export faster than TC will get their project built.
Imagine that, Fairbanks actually getting an industry that supports the town and pays Juneau more baksheesh.
I'm not too worried about the 0.5bcf arbitrary limit capped by the AGIA..
we can always renegotiate
first we use gourmet food, then fine wine..
..as a last resort we use the waterboard....(;-P)
please study carefully the slideshow at www.fairbanksgas.com
some of you have already given me ideas that I have added to the plan..
remember, this is YOUR gasline
I'm just trying to help
.....flash/runble
Posted on July 3 at 9:33 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I laughed at sdoowneks comment too......(;-P)
[wait 'till you see me dressed as Santa ]
Although it would be a blessing for Juneau to endorse the idea of using little plastic gaslines immediately, it's not necessary.
State governments are always by nature just like a moose in the headlights.
This you can do now without waiting for the SantaClod to cut you a check from Juneau.
My initial little gasline project would be 818,000feet of 4" HDPE from Prudhoe to Atigun Pass..
this would cut the costs and increase safety for trucks to transport LPG-propane south to Fairbanks.
$10mil [roughly]
LPG-propane is used in mostly portable devices..
use these for surviving the next winter until something better comes along.
LPG can be used for transport fuel too.
LPG can increase the efficiency of diesel generators, yes it is worthwhile to park a propane tank with a little Century or Impco propane carburetor fixed to the air intake of a big diesel generator..
it will save you 15% in fuel.
The potential architecture of plastic gaslines can compliment AGIA, or it can live without AGIA...
and it can accomplish the objectives of AGIA if Juneau suddenly slid into Lynn Canal.
Juneau looks out for Juneau first, Alaska is just the rest of the family, and the family can eat out of the FoodBank.
Juneau isn't a heck of a lot more friendly than BigOil.
Juneau just wants one single easy to operate platinum plated custody meter located on the south end of Prudhoe... all gas goes thru there, not interested in anything else... just a goldplated cash-cow, simple.
Maybe the pirates stole the NorthSlope from Alaska..
Maybe we should just forget Juneau and Pudhole and focus on developing the gas potential south of Salchaket Slough..
another perfect application for plastic gaslines.
Posted on July 2 at 10:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Using itty-bitty gaslines quietly the first $10mil invested will be moving NS-gas to the most important market, the neighbors in the Brooks who are freezing tired of getting hosed.
After the first $30mil invested Fairbanks will begin to notice a useful amount of propane getting trucked to town.
After the first $100mil an actual LPG-gasline will be at the edge of town [won't that be nice !!]
Who's the moron who thinks Alaska needs to place the one and only custody meter at Prudhoe and thinks all of the gas needs to be routed through there?
Alaska has more of a fire hazard from too much methane, than a getting gas to market problem.
$500million is cheap fire insurance...
...at least you can use it as an excuse that you "tried" to do the right thing before the gasfield got hit by lightning and blew up with a force of multiple Krakatoa's.
The lawyers in the revenue department don't have to hold up moving gas to market while trying to get it right the first time if the gas starts to move slowly through little gaslines.
Little gaslines is much more organic and natural..
less stressful too, actually fun!
Juneau is too hung up on the "worship the golden calf" thingy, this makes the state too predictable to the conglomerates.
Alaska will always have a revenue stream from export pipelines, when the methane-hydrates finally play out after 100years then coal-gas will still provide plenty of easy-money for blundering incompetent Juneau.
[don't take my criticism personal, I think every state in america is retarded]
I think AGIA had mostly good intentions, but was too loaded with lawyers and not enough pipeliners.
I'm wondering if everybody is waiting for me to show up with a shipload of plastic pipe and start building this project..
you'll be waiting a long time.
On Alaska lawmakers call for details on Denali pipeline plan
Posted on July 2 at 9:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)
onapa.. thanks for not totally freaking out.
My russian grandfather used to tell me an old saying from the farm in the old country..
"Seekers of truth are like peelers of onions, each layer you peel it brings more tears to your eyes"
My Athabaskan grandfather taught me to always try to uphold the eternal truths that short lived civilizations who write their history in books are too shortsighted to see.
Americans have habitual selective amnesia.
I know the streets of old-Fairbanks real well, 1974 I left part of my face in an alley off Cushman with the help of 7 "political officers" who took refuge on Wainwright, even though they also rented several houses in town, one was my uncles rental.
Why did they rough me up ??...
[they were trying to kill me without bullets]
I didn't approve of them importing large amounts of cocaine into town... amongst many other issues I had with the TAPS invasion.
Who were these people??
..we'll just call them "organized crime" and leave it at that for now.
In the fall of 1974 the Fairbanks police was caught totally flatfooted and unprepared.
I was told "don't ask too many questions, don't go there, forget it"
I was left to my own wits to keep the potential damage to a minimum.
I made this previous statement today to remind everybody that the truth is as bright as the noonday sun, it's difficult to look at directly, but does no good to deny that it's not exactly where it really is.
I don't play nice-nice pattycakes with pirates or conglomerates..
we respect eachother for knowing the truth about each other.
They know I'm reliable and call me "friend"...detente
I'm accustomed to living in the rough part of town.
..it's kinda like having to put up with having the Hells Angels for neighbors year after year.
I've lived long enough among centenarians who were adults in the 1800's to learn there is no left-right spectrum to politics.
Encouraging people to listen to strong american voices like Bill Moyers is hardly a "leftist" act.
I'm sure if you check with somebody like AK-Sen.Mike Gravel in private he will agree that although I'm sometimes harsh, I'm not too far off the deep end.
The State of Alaska has been played for a sucker for 50years.
Now is time for Alaska to show there is a spiritual responsibility associated with it's massive resources.
This is why I often make a big stink about folks who want to see another "pipeline boom".. the toll of human suffering gets lost in the boomtown shuffle.
Alaska needs competent architecture, not a bunch of big-mouth speculators screaming "billions and trillions" at the top of their lungs.
On Alaska lawmakers call for details on Denali pipeline plan
Posted on July 2 at 10:44 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Tough Questions....
[the town clown gets the honors]
THE STEALING OF ALASKA
I'd feel a lot more comfortable dealing with the "producers" in Alaska if they spun themselves off from the parent global conglomerate and became Alaskan companies with Alaskan values.
Can Alaska become another Iraq?
http://www.truthout.org/article/it-was-o...
""Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn't a war about oil. That's cynical and simplistic, they said. It's about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction. But one by one, these concocted rationales went up in smoke, fire and ashes. And now the bottom line turns out to be ... the bottom line. It is about oil.""
There's some terribly goofy people in America with very powerful connections...
...and some people think Alaska is worth trillions if they could figure out how to pull a big enough scam.
It's been proved that the military is as gullible as a flock of atomic-sheep.
If a """""terrorist""""" event happened in Fairbanks, or Edmonton what would happen to AGIA?
Would Ft.Wainwright take over the town while "Denali--The Alaska Pipeline" movie gets "produced" ???
There's some very subtle but strong connections between Ft.Wainwright and Ft.Prudhoe
Prudhoe was named after a city in Britain....
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-balla...
......flash/[you don't hear the rumble that kills ya]
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Posted on July 4 at 2:28 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Here's a multifuel engine with an amazingly simple design..
http://www.peswiki.com/index.php/Directo....
It can burn propane, nat-gas, bio-diesel, and LRCWF liquid-coal.
Sometimes it's easier to replace the engine than to reconfigure the fuel.
On Rural Alaska communities seek ways to lower energy costs