Comments on: Richard Hammond on the subject of moving LNG around https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/richard-hammond-on-the-subject-of-moving-lng-around/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:01:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Calculator https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/richard-hammond-on-the-subject-of-moving-lng-around/#comment-1639370 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:01:08 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44768#comment-1639370 In reply to ciccio.

So, basically, one should go and make the most of Marsaxlokk now before it becomes a no-go zone?

]]> By: COD https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/richard-hammond-on-the-subject-of-moving-lng-around/#comment-1636308 Sun, 16 Mar 2014 15:39:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44768#comment-1636308 In reply to Salvu.

The Gemini is a bigger ship with 5 storage domes

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/richard-hammond-on-the-subject-of-moving-lng-around/#comment-1635038 Sun, 16 Mar 2014 00:46:15 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44768#comment-1635038 This video here shows how an LNG vapor cloud ignites. You wouldn’t want to be standing there in the cloud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR4I3P31M_8

The vapour cloud in a real life accident would behave like this:

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

]]> By: madgoal https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/richard-hammond-on-the-subject-of-moving-lng-around/#comment-1634692 Sat, 15 Mar 2014 21:26:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44768#comment-1634692 I know its not exactly last minute news but this really http://www.maltarightnow.com/default.asp?module=news&at=Is-sie%26%23295%3Bba+fin-negozju+ta%27+mart+il-Prim+Ministru+tirreklama+n-negozju+fi+New+York&t=a&aid=99855039&cid=19

]]> By: Joe Micallef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/richard-hammond-on-the-subject-of-moving-lng-around/#comment-1634682 Sat, 15 Mar 2014 21:21:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44768#comment-1634682 This was bound to happen.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/investigations/10699637/EU-citizenship-for-sale-to-non-Europeans-in-Bulgaria-for-as-little-as-150000.html

]]> By: ken il malti https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/richard-hammond-on-the-subject-of-moving-lng-around/#comment-1634532 Sat, 15 Mar 2014 19:39:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44768#comment-1634532 Why subject the people in the south of Malta with this LNG ticking time bomb when clean burning coal technology exists to power electrical generating stations.

Coal is still safer than LNG when it is burnt in an efficient modern 21st century way and a lot cheaper in the long run.

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/12/kemper-us-power-plant-coal-carbon

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/richard-hammond-on-the-subject-of-moving-lng-around/#comment-1634330 Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:47:20 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44768#comment-1634330 Muscat will insist nothing can ever happen.

And what happens if it does, do we get to see the most spectacular fireshow on Earth?

We’ve had ‘experts’ telling us it will be safer than the petroleum division’s operations, fine, active safety or else, and if that fails then what?

Initial footage shows train carts containing app. 36,000gallons of LPG. What will 140,000 cubic meters of LNG do? Out of control that’s what.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFapoD6Ct7Y

The engineer engaged by Marsaxlokk local council couldn’t put it better, relocating the ship away from Marsaxlokk and Birzebbuga puts everyone’s mind to rest.

Where are Audrey Harrison, Karmenu Vella and Franco Debono? They all live, or plan to live, in that bay.

]]> By: Manuel https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/richard-hammond-on-the-subject-of-moving-lng-around/#comment-1634320 Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:44:08 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44768#comment-1634320 This headline and written piece should be actually mailed to the PM of Malta. The reflect his ignorance on the actual situation of Libya. Soon it will come out, as you said Daphne, that the ousted Libyan PM is the holder of a new Maltese-cum-EU passport.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/columnists/mary-wakefield/9156471/david-camerons-good-war-in-libya-is-coming-to-a-very-bad-end/

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/richard-hammond-on-the-subject-of-moving-lng-around/#comment-1634211 Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:48:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44768#comment-1634211 In reply to Jozef.

Here’s another proposal using the same principles, this one outside Ancona in the Adriatic by GDF.

The detail showing the mooring point better explained, another detail to highlight, the pipeline to be buried in close proximity to shore to ensure stability. Again the the idea is to have the regasifier on board, 34 kms offshore, out of sight and therefore definitely safe. It’s what happens when civil society is given due attention to voice its concerns.

It is then passed through a measuring station and on to the SNAM network. Concerns to the pipework carrying gas buried below agricultural land obviously a problem, we don’t even have to go there.

This is definitely where we should be going. I’m afraid there’s no English version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdVR77ozVHY

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/richard-hammond-on-the-subject-of-moving-lng-around/#comment-1634175 Sat, 15 Mar 2014 16:24:01 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=44768#comment-1634175 The ship permanently moored outside Livorno stopped in Malta for routine maintenance on its way to the Tuscan coast last year.

The regasifier sits on the bow, notice the major mooring point re-engineered into the keel right below it.

This probably contains the pipeline attachment running coaxially with the centre of rotation of the ship as it turns into the current when moored.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z16k93fx79U

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