So we basically have our own Stalin. Lovely.

Grezz, I hope Konrad Mizzi has a link to that counter as the first item in his list of ‘favourites.’

Might as well conceal all of him then – well at least we won’t have to stare at his ugly mug.

What they’re proposing is worse than two tanks, humunguous they may have been, capacity’s been more than doubled.

And it’s not a ‘small’ vessel as some experts insisted (they got their gas wrong, industries don’t mix neither in quality of gas let alone their quantities). Let’s really up the ante and have two supertankers bobbing up and down transferring gas prone to rapid transition phase, (accelerated boiling and vaporisation) if it had to spill onto the water surface.

Perhaps an illustration explains better.

Rapid transition when LNG spills onto water. The explosions are the liquid gas bursting into a vapour as soon as copious amounts contact with sea water at ambient temperature, no combustion yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-EY82cVKuA

As for volume increase and detonation energy when the cloud reaches any heat source, say engine manifold, the shock wave’s clearly visible, they used to tell us LNG burns with a moderate flame if ignited, well this video shows otherwise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLGM_2l0zok

And yes, that’s an LNG road tanker in China. What’s absolutely visible is how the shock wave’s reflected along the valley, amplifying itself. Marsaxlokk’s a bay, pretty enclosed and prevalent winds lead up to the village center at sea level. Do we have start a whole mish-mash of empty Konrad talk to convince ourselves this whole concept’s a non-starter?

Finally, your typical operational accident

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUaed0-uMyg

Imagine the boom connections being between two vessels instead.

I think it’s high time the minister disclose who’s in charge of design.

Can we please stick to the facts?

How is one capable of results if all he concocted was a plot to hijack one of his majesty’s ships and threaten to blow it up if the constitution wasn’t granted.

He basically managed to sabotage all their effort. Oops, sorry but my irrational passion for drama got me carried away.

His actions may carry far greater implications, beyond these shores, than we can imagine. It still has to be seen who was backing him financially. The revolutionary who wouldn’t engage with either language indeed.

I never said he was successful, ciccio. Actually he failed quite dismally in my opinion. Hence the reason Malta needed him – but its people didn’t deserve him.

No government has ever taken it on itself to try and find where the poor man is buried in the hope that he be repatriated as was his dying wish.

That’s how it always was and now, that’s how it always will be.

Totally right Ginger. Just because Mintoff wasn’t brought to justice for all the crimes committed under his regime doesn’t mean that he was a person who deserves a monument.

Here’s the countdown, Jozef.

http://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?p0=255&iso=20150311T00&msg=Konrad's+power+station

Manwel Dimech was a great man, a man who made something of himself through education despite the unfortunate circumstances of being born in dire poverty and his prison incarceration as a young man for the bad choices he made in his young life.

He tried to uplift and educate the man on the street at a time where very few were educated from the lower classes.

Dimech was a freethinker and educator, a man born before his time, and his ideas ran afoul to two powerful entities on Malta, the Colonial British and the Roman Catholic church.

These status quo duos worked hand in hand when they had a common interest and keeping Manwel Dimech exiled as political prisoner in Egypt long after the Great War ended (it was not only unlawful but also very cruel act) was in their interest.

As the Governor of Malta wrote on the telegram note from Alexandria announcing the death of Manwel Dimech in 1921 at the age of 60 years old:

“Good riddance, this freethinker is finally dead.”