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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25369975 United States 10/11/2012 04:34 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Google: New Madrid Mega Quake Tied To Sinkhole: Perhaps Imminent? Man Made Or An Act Of God? link banned here. The story and informative video below with references from Rev. Michelle Hopkins. Over the years they have been filling a nearby salt dome in Assumption, Parish, Louisiana with radioactive waste and 1.5 million barrels of liquid Butane. If this sinkhole continues to devour land and trees in this area, it may eventually breach this storage area releasing not only toxic radiation into the environment, but also butane which will then become exposed to the air above. All it would take then would be the spark from a car ignition or some other source of fire to set in motion an explosion which some suggest could be equivalent to about 100 nuclear bombs similar to those used on Nagasaki or Hiroshima, in Japan. As bad as all of that would be, there is something even worse that could come from this. An explosion on that magnitude would create a giant crater deep in the earth exposing this salt dome to the elements. Since this salt dome is also connected to the much larger Luann salt basin, that means water from the bayou will trickle down and quickly become a torrent of water to dissolve the salt in areas covering 5 states, up to a mile thick. As the salt dome looses integrity, all of those deep oil wells will become funnels to either blow out or pull more water into the cavity. When that finally collapses, ALL of Louisiana will sink into the Gulf of Mexico. |
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...in awe of many things User ID: 3539589 United States 10/15/2012 11:25 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | twas nothing but a missing letter! That short paper, A BRIEF HISTORY OF SALT CAVERN USE, is a condensed, informative one from a year 2000 perspective, possibly presented to industry insiders at a symposium. Much of it sounds like a selling point for R&D considerations. Still it does touch upon some cautionary points, as follows: Excerpt, much less than 50% [link to solutionmining.org] ============================================== 4. UNCONVENTIONAL USES Some unconventional concepts have been proposed for the use of salt caverns. A number of these are noted here. Storage of food grains in salt caverns, with pneumatic conveyance systems, has been proposed. Storage of liquid natural gas (LNG) in salt caverns is appealing, because volume requirements are reduced by a factor of about 600 from the gas phase. However, cryogenic temperatures are required, which caused extensive fracturing of salt in an LNG storage test in a German mine. Waste disposal in a series of vertically separated salt caverns, solution-mined from a common well, has been proposed. The caverns, plugged between levels, would not transfer pressures vertically. The “string of pearls” concept was proposed for disposal of hazardous waste in the Vinton salt dome in south Louisiana in the 1980’s. However, disposal of all hazardous waste in salt domes was shortly banned. 5. SOME PROBLEMS Some problems have inevitably occurred with the use of salt caverns over the past decades. These range in character from undesirable cavern behavior to disastrous explosions on the ground surface... ...Large volume losses due to salt creep have occurred in natural gas storage caverns. Examples include the earlier cited Eminence dome, U.S., with loss of 40%; and at Tersanne, France, with loss of 30%. Such losses represent costly reductions in storage capacity. Following these early problems, appropriate adjustments were made in cavern depths and minimum operating pressures, so that gas storage continues at both sites today. Salt caverns storing liquid hydrocarbons have experienced “salt falls” that damaged hanging (casing) strings; and also, gas emissions from the surrounding salt mass that contaminated or caused problems in handling stored products. Leakage of an oil storage cavern resulted in efforts to repair it from the inside, with a remotely operated submersible vessel... ...A disastrous explosion occurred April 7, 1992, following an outflow of LPG onto the surface from the well of a storage cavern in the Brenham salt dome, located about 70 miles (113 km) northwest of Houston, Texas. Three fatalities resulted from the explosion, which was recorded as a 4+ event on a Richter Scale in Houston. According to early news releases, “A salt dome had blown up”. However, the LPG storage cavern later “passed” a mechanical integrity test (MIT). State authorities did not permit further storage of LPG at the site, but not because the cavern had failed. The State of Texas now has comprehensive safety regulations for both light hydrocarbons and natural gas storage in salt caverns. The very unfortunate Brenham disaster, like the previously noted tests of explosive devices in salt, further demonstrated the exceptional containment characteristics of salt caverns... ...ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance and support of Bill and Carol Diamond, SMRI, Bruce Bertrand, Salt Institute, and the contributors cited in Table 1 in data collection for this paper." Last Edited by esotericMorgan on 10/15/2012 11:25 PM -- TRUST THE PLAN -- .......WWG1WGA...... ____________________________ still in awe of many things |