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Do you want to piss Greta off? lol...
Show her this picture of North Dakota at Midnight...
https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOE...-1200x1200.jpg
Yes, that is Natural Gas, being burned... 24x7x365.
Hell, it pisses me off.
https://youtu.be/vtlo5FACwxY?si=PA2BWPv_0FHeMpN_
-John
Most Natural Gas in ND isn't flared anymore. It was a decade ago, and still is when there are problems, but that's not the norm. After the boom up there, it was taking longer to get the gathering pipelines in the ground than it was to get a pad drilled and producing, so they just flared it. Now, they aren't drilling anywhere near as fast, so the midstream companies can keep up with the new pads and interconnects.Quote:
Originally Posted by arbol
The NOAA photo is likely showing pad lighting that is on all night, industrial LED fixtures.
Your video was posted six years ago, and is a small pad flare that was used until gathering systems could be built. They can still be used in the event that pipeline pressures are too high or there is H2s in the gas that they want to get rid of.
Flying into Williston in 2014-2015 at night was surreal. Flickering fire light as far as the eye could see.
If that video makes you mad, this will boil your blood:
In 2012, I was working as a contractor in the O/G world and a single customer of mine with ~300 pads in West Texas flared more NG in the calendar year of 2012 than was used in the continental US. It was so cheap per MCF that it wasn't worth gathering with all the existing NG gathering/processing already in place at the time. This is also no longer the case with the EPA and the greenie hippie bitches making energy extraction more and more difficult across the nation.
I'm very happy to learn that is probably LED lighting... but OMG if it isn't. Truly extraordinary.
My brother is in Oil and Gas, and when I showed him this he said... well, look at West Texas if you want to really see what is going on.
West Texas' footprint is nothing like North Dakota on satellite...
So I still wonder, but thank you, I now have hope. :)
-John
Attachment 97378
Got me one of those Panzer Arms M4 clones. I've put a bunch of mil 12GA 00 thru it and a variety of other 1300+ FPS loads since that seems to be the recommended break-in procedure. Fitting various upgrades has ranged from 'no biggie' (the adjustable stock) to Eh, no so bad (the +2 extension) to 'OMFG I WANT TO KILL MYSELF' (the front handguard).
Overall, I'm very pleased with it so far.
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Food and ammo.
Shopping complete.
For now.
You forgot Toilet paper and coffee..................Quote:
Originally Posted by TEAMRICO
What about hot sauce... and hand sanitizer?[ROFL1]
Hot sauce? Hillary always carries a bottle with her!
Besides, my brown butt has a variety to get me through some tough times!
MRES come with all of the above? Right? Right?
Well Tabasco and TP anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scanker19