It’s a nice little part-time hobby of mine.

I mention an ‘idea’ to somebody and ask them what they think and then enjoy watching them perform the mental gymnastics as they try to figure out if it was a PN or a PL idea before pronouncing it good or bad.

Hilarious.

The real risk scenario.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140309/local/gas-leak-would-be-disastrous-expert.509937

It’s a fact LNG evaporates in an uncontrolled manner if it were to leak and mix with sea water at ambient temeperatures.

It’s a fact the resulting low cloud will most probably travel up the bay following the contours moved by the sea breeze.

It’s a fact that the same cloud won’t come across any ignition source as it floats across the water, but most likely in the place this can be found, namely an inhabited area.

It’s also a fact this cloud, during the amount of time travelled, would have thoroughly mixed with air leading to full detonation and not a moderate flame front where oxygen is sucked into the flame to fuel the unmixed condensed vapour.

Comments below the article just show how absolutely ridiculous people can be. I didn’t know the PN must be blamed for having removed the gas bottling plant in Qajjenza to justify a supertanker four decades old.

The videos below show the aftermath of an incident uncannily similar to the one outlined above. Viareggio, derailed train, one cracked LPG tank on top of a railway carriage.

The dynamics described by investigators as freakish how the sequence of events leading to the explosion resulted in the maximum damage possible.

If only the tank cracked as the undercarriage was still being dragged across the railway line, sparks would have limited the explosion to the station. What happened instead was that the gas ignited outside the station and after having found its way up the streets, killing over seventy people, most of the victims asleep in their beds.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDVShsIfc38

Can we please cut the political crap, lies and spite and try to reason like any civilised country where engineers, standards and the real experts get to have a say? It’s their job to imagine the worst case possible working safety systems into any project proposal backwards, that’s risk mitigation, and NOT, as is happening here, force it through and hope for the best.

Even more so when details are still under wraps and asking to scrutinise reports commissioned in our name is akin to ‘tixwix’.

It’s one thing being corrupt or blinded by power, something else choosing to put lives plainly at risk. The fact a report has become something to edit as details emerge is too horrific to consider.

Can we, just the once, listen to each other?

http://www.maltarightnow.com/?module=news&at=Konrad+Mizzi+ffa%26%23267%3B%26%23267%3Bjat+b%27rabja+minn+Delegati+Laburisti+u+residenti+ta%27+Marsaxlokk&t=a&aid=99854871&cid=19

The inevitable is happening.

[Daphne – I think it’s more a question of what happened to Libya, rather than what happened to the agreement. That agreement was pointless to begin with, given the country’s anarchy and chaos.]

How China fooled the world.