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Title: War, transportation, politics
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Published: Jun 22, 2016
Author: Dakmar the Contrarian
Post Date: 2016-06-22 18:08:43 by Dakmar
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Comments: 4

I've lately noticed my couch/tv time increasingly devoted to railroading documentaries. There is one about WWII, how the railroads had to gear up for transporting raw materials, fuel, weapons, machinery and troops. What caught my attention was the oil tankers, headed to ports for shipment to our Brit buddies.

How long would it take Russia (or hell, Bolivia if they really put their minds to it) to sink the ocean tanker as it headed east?

That got me to thinking about offshore oil platforms. Blowing up a couple of those would really ruin someones coastline. The nazis probably would have, but there were no offshore oil platforms back then best I can tell.

That got me thinking about WWII and oil again. Surely a few of those tankers were sunk by nazis, and I doubt there were clean-up crews, so that oil had to go somewhere. Yet there are no big splashy stories on TV/MSM about lingering environmental damage from all that, not to mention skies being filled with supercharged bombers dropping incendiaries to light up entire cities. Government programs in action.

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#1. To: Dakmar (#0)

A fine example of deep pondering right there. Looking forward to your essay on Fukushima.

Obnoxicated  posted on  2016-06-22   20:05:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Dakmar (#0)

Any oil spills from WWII would have been long gone.

DWornock  posted on  2016-06-22   20:25:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: DWornock (#2)

Any oil spills from WWII would have been long gone.

What's the half life of BP Platform crude? I would have guessed about same as Earth based on media coverage.

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Dakmar  posted on  2016-06-22   20:33:59 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Dakmar (#3)

What's the half life of BP Platform crude [in the ocean)?

From a few days to a decade. Mostly it depends on the temperature of the water and the amount and type of bacteria present. Crude has a number of components. The more volatile quickly evaporates. Bacteria converts it in to energy, CO2, and water. Some can be converted into tar balls that sink and last a very long time but does no damage.

For billions of years before humans started using and drilling for oil, oil would bubble to the surface on land and in the ocean; hundreds of times more than any oil spill. However, in certain conditions, if oxygen can't get to it, oil can last for a very long time.

The following is an excellent article "Oil Degradation in the Sea": www.groundtruthtrekking.org/Issues/AlaskaOilandGas/OilDegradation.html

DWornock  posted on  2016-06-23   9:42:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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