That is a very good point. I wonder what the closest "siesmic stable" area there is closest to the port of Prince William Sound? The earthquake that occured back in 1964 (?) was one of the most energetic ever recorded! That will happen again, right? No one can tell when. When I was up there - there was still some evidence of the quake - like a tidal plain that once wasn't there and the persistent remains of some once stable log buildings. BTW - On the ABC news tonight they were talking about Coal into gasoline. Refineries in South Africa are producing "crude" from coal at a cost of $20 a barrel. Gasoline produced from coal is much cleaner than what comes from petroleum - too bad the processing creates so much CO2 - it seems like there has to be a way around that... -WaV
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 2:57 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > A thought on the refinery in Alaska. The short summer and other factors > might make it not very cost efective to refine in Alaska. Also there are the > ice fogs created by the power plants - it might be worse with a refinery. I > have had to drive in it!!!! Ugggggg! > Then the chance of a quake in the Anchorage area like the last one. There > were large cracks in the earth as far up as Fairbanks. > Then ther are permafrost melts under the roads and I would think it would > make for a problem finding a place to build. You have to watch were you > build a house and I have seen the road south out of Fairbanks have dips that > were feet not inches from this. >
