Terry,
You must stop eating the habaneros after 8 pm!
Nope. Just breaking in my new expresso machine.
I thin' you have a brilliant idea 'cept for the transport of the Liquair. Many oil wells burn off their methane because of the cost of transport.
Well let me counter the last part with this.
Oil wells did perpetrate this dastardly act in the past, especially if there wasn't much methane in the well. There is usually always some methane in oil, but often it comes off first, and after a while it is all gone, so it doesn't pay to pipe it way.
Even at the refinery, they used to burn it away, but at least here in CA they have had laws on the books for years now to make that illegal. It must be pumped into the mains or used on-site for heat.
But the main reason that I still think that C.A. is feasible in CA (cryo-air in cal-e-furnia, as the Gubernator likes to say) and maybe even highly advantageous anywhere, is that once your are set up do it on a large scale, even with a dedicated Dewar equipped tender, then all of those transport costs are amortized over lots of tonnage, and they are not going to be that high when they are spread out over quite a few offshore wind-factories... plus the whole system operates 24/7.
Hey, Vo... Do we have a cost-accountant out there?... doubtful. Anyway, I would like to see a fairly well-considered cost study of the ROI of such a proposal.
Jones
BTW, Terry, do you still have the French-speaking associate?
How did she like my "le mot juste" and clever cross-cultural pun (or did I get it wrong in translation?)
For those who do not appreciate cross-cultural punage, "lover" in French means wind, so my inspiration for this petit mot juste, is both a famous quote from le Miz, shall we say, not to mention the reigning king-of-wind on vortex, i.e. the famous "lover"-boy hisself ... or is that lover-lover, who is sure to chime-in on this idea (hopefully on the positive side) sooner or later.
