The gas platform that will be the world's biggest 'ship'

DavidDvorkin

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Fri Jul-15-11 10:06 AM
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The gas platform that will be the world's biggest 'ship'

Shell has unveiled plans to build the world's first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) platform. The 600,000-tonne behemoth - the world's biggest "ship" - will be sited off the coast of Australia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13709293

And impressive technical achievement, and a heck of a target for terrorists.

I guess I'm a pessimist at heart.

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NYC_SKP

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Fri Jul-15-11 10:17 AM
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1. Awesome! What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Yeesh!

"No matter what we attempt to do, no matter to what fields we turn our efforts, we are dependent on power.

We have to evolve means of obtaining energy from stores which are forever inexhaustible, to perfect methods which do not imply consumption and waste of any material whatever.

If we use fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly.

This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations."

Nikola Tesla, ca 100 years ago

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