Most of California isn't a desert, and most of the desert parts of California don't have trees (because, you know, it's a desert).
Most of the world's landmass at SoCal's latitude is desert. This band is called the Hourse Latitudes. Southern California is at the same lattitude as the Sahara desert.
Sorry must have had a brain cramp, "normally the more they spend on expenses, the more money they can't give to shareholders;" should have been "normally the more they spend on expenses, the more money they can give to shareholders;"
Actually the Apothecary system is just being phased out of the medical/pharmacy professions. I live on the border with Canada and even a metric country has issues, most Canadians around here still think in Fahrenheit degrees for temperature.
I've got an app on my smartphone that converts most units, of course it doesn't do Apothecary so if you want to know how many grams are in a dram you're still screwed.
Probably because the pipelines in or the supplying wells to the area have insufficient capacity during peak demand periods and/or they can buy extra when prices are low in the summer and use it in the winter when prices are higher. This is standard practice in the industry. These are our Underground Natural Gas Storage in Michigan.
It's a disasterous waste of a resource and many people have had to be evacuated, possibly for months. Why isn't there a serious response on the federal level instead of expecting the company to do whatever they can with their own resources? A spill in the gulf was dealt with on such a level.
What they are doing is drilling a well 3800 ft down, and then steering the drill-bit to over to hit the 7 inch pipe, then pour concrete into the leaking 7 inch pipe through the new well! They have actually detected the 7 inch pipe and are steering toward it now; it would be like threading a needle blindfolded with someone else giving you directions; how are you going to hurry that up?
No. An accident is when you're drunk and you think you have to fart but you end up crapping your drawers.
When a leak in your natural gas storage facility springs a leak so bad that it makes an entire California town uninhabitable and the residents seriously ill, has already dumped the greenhouse equivalent of a million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere and you won't be able to stop the leak until at least March, 2016, it's a fucking crime. They should be frog-marching the CEO and Board of Directors of SoCal Gas in handcuffs right now. Let the hundreds of families that have had to leave their homes indefinitely throw rocks at their heads.
Well first what are the alternatives, coal fired power plants? Here's the real skinny,
The gas company has already told state regulators that it would complete drilling of the primary relief well by Feb. 24, but representatives said in an interview last week that repairing the leak could take until the end of March SoCal Gas pinpoints the site of a leaking well near Porter Ranch
Notice that state regulators , how many rate increases to upgrade infrastructure has the state regulators turned down in the last decade? Regulated Utilities aren't like other businesses, there profits are limited to a percentage of revenues, so normally the more they spend on expenses, the more money they can't give to shareholders; unless the Regulators will not approve the rate increases.
Concrete is a nice fluid for this. But it will cap the well permanently, so it looks live those greedy private morons are still trying to salvage it, out of pure greed
It's a well into a natural gas storage field, they've already decided it has to be capped, it's not like it's the only well into the storage field, the leaking well was used to pump fluids into the field to maintain stable pressures. The easy fix is to drill another well to pump concrete down to the area of the leaking well to reduce pressure in the leaking well casing an then fill the leaker with concrete to seal it, i.e. cap the well permanently.
The alternative is to shutdown facility and fill it with fluid to avoid collapse and earthquakes. That would also mean that Natural gas fired power plants wouldn't be assured of sufficient gas to operate during peak consumption times and rolling blackouts.
I know a guy who works in the field and the compressors that pump the natural gas into storage facility operate at 15,000 PSI, the manufacturer's operator school was a month long, as was the maintenance school. I'd assume the same equipment would be used for CO2 sequestration or compressed air energy storage.
The LA area is unique due to the high seismicity, so I'm surprised they can keep anything in the ground, I'm 60 and I've felt a total of 2 earthquake in my entire life in Michigan. Underground storage would be more workable here, at least until the New Madrid fault ruptures. Last time the New Madrid fault ruptured even the dirt wouldn't stay in the ground!
As compared to what, having 1. Los Angelenos lighting a coal furnace everytime the temperature dips below 22C? 2. CO2 from the curing concrete to build enough Nuclear Fission Reactors to let Los Angelenos heat with electricity? 3. CO2 from the curing concrete to build pads big enough to keep wind turbines from blowing down in the Santa Anna winds? 4. Converting Natural Gas fueled power plant to coal?
We have oil wells even in Beverly Hills! This state has a horrific environmental record because of the Republicans.
Are you going to blame the Republicans for La Brea tar pits as well? Perhaps the oil wells are relieving natural pressure in the oil containing formations and are reducing environmental damaging oil seeps elsewhere; like the ocean.
I was there visiting around 2008, the TV made it sound like the Bikini Baristas were just starting, I did notice that the others Baristas weren't above showing more cleavage when the tip jar was put.
Yes indeed, it's not like that with Cell Phones either, that's why those stingrays don't work. You might not be able to take over someone's account with a stronger WiFi, but you can keep them out of it. The MP's used to sit at the bottom of the hill at one of our HAWK missile Tac sites with their 100mW DC input Xband traffic radar giving out tickets for going 5 over. When the lads had enough of that they said "hello" with their 1KW DC input Xband target illuminating radar, the MP's put out the fire and never came back, too much "interference".
Lead shot has been off the market for decades, I've got a few old boxes with lead bird shot in them, but i wouldn't trust them to go off when expected. Now Fowlers use steel shot.
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East Texan, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Georgia are the reason I used most instead of all.
Most of California isn't a desert, and most of the desert parts of California don't have trees (because, you know, it's a desert).
Most of the world's landmass at SoCal's latitude is desert. This band is called the Hourse Latitudes. Southern California is at the same lattitude as the Sahara desert.
Long-term, fundamentalism fails. Remember how the Christian Church used to be?
Long term it fails, but it's definitely on the upswing now, perhaps next century will be better.
That is pretty much how we got sucked into hostilities in that festering cesspool of Iran.
Sorry must have had a brain cramp, "normally the more they spend on expenses, the more money they can't give to shareholders;" should have been "normally the more they spend on expenses, the more money they can give to shareholders;"
Dude the field is still in use, how is that a catastrophic failure? Given the seismicity of the area, any test would be good for maybe a month.
Actually the Apothecary system is just being phased out of the medical/pharmacy professions. I live on the border with Canada and even a metric country has issues, most Canadians around here still think in Fahrenheit degrees for temperature.
Seems a well casing blow out, probably within a few hundred feet of the surface, I'm not sure how you'd pressure test that.
I've got an app on my smartphone that converts most units, of course it doesn't do Apothecary so if you want to know how many grams are in a dram you're still screwed.
Probably because the pipelines in or the supplying wells to the area have insufficient capacity during peak demand periods and/or they can buy extra when prices are low in the summer and use it in the winter when prices are higher. This is standard practice in the industry. These are our Underground Natural Gas Storage in Michigan.
It's a disasterous waste of a resource and many people have had to be evacuated, possibly for months. Why isn't there a serious response on the federal level instead of expecting the company to do whatever they can with their own resources? A spill in the gulf was dealt with on such a level.
What they are doing is drilling a well 3800 ft down, and then steering the drill-bit to over to hit the 7 inch pipe, then pour concrete into the leaking 7 inch pipe through the new well! They have actually detected the 7 inch pipe and are steering toward it now; it would be like threading a needle blindfolded with someone else giving you directions; how are you going to hurry that up?
No. An accident is when you're drunk and you think you have to fart but you end up crapping your drawers.
When a leak in your natural gas storage facility springs a leak so bad that it makes an entire California town uninhabitable and the residents seriously ill, has already dumped the greenhouse equivalent of a million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere and you won't be able to stop the leak until at least March, 2016, it's a fucking crime. They should be frog-marching the CEO and Board of Directors of SoCal Gas in handcuffs right now. Let the hundreds of families that have had to leave their homes indefinitely throw rocks at their heads.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-...
Well first what are the alternatives, coal fired power plants? Here's the real skinny,
Notice that state regulators , how many rate increases to upgrade infrastructure has the state regulators turned down in the last decade? Regulated Utilities aren't like other businesses, there profits are limited to a percentage of revenues, so normally the more they spend on expenses, the more money they can't give to shareholders; unless the Regulators will not approve the rate increases.
Concrete is a nice fluid for this. But it will cap the well permanently, so it looks live those greedy private morons are still trying to salvage it, out of pure greed
It's a well into a natural gas storage field, they've already decided it has to be capped, it's not like it's the only well into the storage field, the leaking well was used to pump fluids into the field to maintain stable pressures. The easy fix is to drill another well to pump concrete down to the area of the leaking well to reduce pressure in the leaking well casing an then fill the leaker with concrete to seal it, i.e. cap the well permanently.
The alternative is to shutdown facility and fill it with fluid to avoid collapse and earthquakes. That would also mean that Natural gas fired power plants wouldn't be assured of sufficient gas to operate during peak consumption times and rolling blackouts.
I know a guy who works in the field and the compressors that pump the natural gas into storage facility operate at 15,000 PSI, the manufacturer's operator school was a month long, as was the maintenance school. I'd assume the same equipment would be used for CO2 sequestration or compressed air energy storage.
The LA area is unique due to the high seismicity, so I'm surprised they can keep anything in the ground, I'm 60 and I've felt a total of 2 earthquake in my entire life in Michigan. Underground storage would be more workable here, at least until the New Madrid fault ruptures. Last time the New Madrid fault ruptured even the dirt wouldn't stay in the ground!
As compared to what, having
1. Los Angelenos lighting a coal furnace everytime the temperature dips below 22C?
2. CO2 from the curing concrete to build enough Nuclear Fission Reactors to let Los Angelenos heat with electricity?
3. CO2 from the curing concrete to build pads big enough to keep wind turbines from blowing down in the Santa Anna winds?
4. Converting Natural Gas fueled power plant to coal?
We have oil wells even in Beverly Hills! This state has a horrific environmental record because of the Republicans.
Are you going to blame the Republicans for La Brea tar pits as well? Perhaps the oil wells are relieving natural pressure in the oil containing formations and are reducing environmental damaging oil seeps elsewhere; like the ocean.
I was there visiting around 2008, the TV made it sound like the Bikini Baristas were just starting, I did notice that the others Baristas weren't above showing more cleavage when the tip jar was put.
Yeah but they have baristas dressed in bikinis in drive-thru coffee stands!
Yes indeed, it's not like that with Cell Phones either, that's why those stingrays don't work. You might not be able to take over someone's account with a stronger WiFi, but you can keep them out of it.
The MP's used to sit at the bottom of the hill at one of our HAWK missile Tac sites with their 100mW DC input Xband traffic radar giving out tickets for going 5 over. When the lads had enough of that they said "hello" with their 1KW DC input Xband target illuminating radar, the MP's put out the fire and never came back, too much "interference".
Lead shot has been off the market for decades, I've got a few old boxes with lead bird shot in them, but i wouldn't trust them to go off when expected. Now Fowlers use steel shot.
Obama is the guy that really went all-in on Drone assassinations.
The Federal Trade Commission wants to regulate drones too? I had no idea, why would they do that?
Why? because The FTC is totally out of control in Italy
He should scan them back, then forward his umused ports to a tarpit.
The data is easier to see with linear trend lines
Many Early Astronomers would cast Horoscopes for rich Patrons to finance their science.