jeff sommers wrote:
The Swedes are genuinely concerned about the issue. Studies have been
conducted on the decay rate of the steel barrels containing the chemical
weapons.
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It's similar to the situation of the Farallone Islands outside the S.F. bay.
Occasionally a whole bunch of fish or sea birds die, or there's a
'slick' of unknown origin being tracked... lotsa toxics, some old
military stuff, but it's also a tourist attraction for the
bolder-than-fisherman's-wharf crowd..:
<http://www.baycrossings.com/Archives/2004/01_February/a_whale_of_a_trip.htm>
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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:32:05 -0700
From: Eugene Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sweden's Prime Minister warns Baltic LNG pipeline plan is
"foolhardy"
Leigh, it is NOT CNG either. It is just natural gas, the same as
what comes out of your kitchen stove under (less) pressure. It is
pressurized to push it through the pipe, but "compressed" as in CNG
is different. CNG = "compressed natural gas" is pressurized -- at a
much higher pressure than at your kitchen stove -- into a tank, such
as a small tank on a pick-up truck, which would be ignited to drive
the truck engine. Compressing it makes it take up less space.
LNG is liquified natrual gas -- liquified by being cooled to
something like minus 150 degrees Celcius.
You've got the terminus end backward. LNG, transported by tanker,
is liquified at the source and gasified at the terminus, not
liquified. It is then put into a regular pipeline to be delivered to
your kitchen stove.
As far as commenting on the article you forwarded, I have no idea of
the condition of the bottom of the Baltic sea. I suspect the dispute
is more about the route of the pipeline and the attendant advantage
or disadvantage to one country or another.
Gene Coyle
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Gas pipeline offshore section from Vyborg to Greifswald will be 1,200
km long, with 1,219 mm in diameter and a 210 atm working pressure.
<http://www.negp.info/news/news3.html>
Gene... That's CNG.
Leigh
