Thought I’d just check in here and see if anybody had anything intelligent to say about the NordStream pipeline. Well, I am disappointed but not surprised.
That's right, just assume an act of war and run with it, in the absence of any evidence. Have any of you lot ever worked with gas pipelines? Have any of you talked, or listened, to people with such experience? Or do you Just Know exactly what happened under a hundred meters of frigid water hundreds or thousands of miles from where you’re sitting on your dead asses?
Yeah, yeah, I know, all the media talking heads are mindlessly parroting the
SABOTAGE!! line, but why have we heard not a single word from anyone who’s ever actually worked on gas pipelines? All the noise is coming from clueless politicians, bureaucrats, and other useless yammerheads. Why have none of them bothered to consult anybody with experience in the construction, operation and maintenance of gas pipelines?
Fortunately, there is no need to remain mired in ignorance. There are two posts, NordStream
http://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/09/nordstream.html and NordStream 2
http://thelawdogfiles.com/2022/10/nordstream-ii-electric-instapundit.html, from LawDog at
http://thelawdogfiles.com where he makes a plausible case that it was likely a pipeline blowout caused by negligence, incompetence and corruption — commodities never in short supply in Russia during the last 105 years.
How could all the pipes blow out at about the same time? Well, given four pipes full of stagnant gas and unstable methane clathrate under high pressure, if one of them blew out and shocked the pipe next to it, that could very will initiate a chain reaction leading to all four pipes blowing out.
Not saying for sure that’s what happened. There is
no evidence, after all. There won’t be, until somebody sends some ROVs down to look at the broken pipes. It’s just the opinion of somebody with a few decades of experience with oil, gas and pipelines — the only
INFORMED opinion I’ve seen anywhere.
So, naturally, LawDog’s web site has been under constant attack for three days now. That’s how left-wingers operate — they can’t make any good arguments against what he says, so they have to prevent him from saying it. He’s starting to cope with the onslaught, but there are still ‘Bandwidth Limit Exceeded’ errors on some posts, and it's not possible to post comments.
Before the attacks, other folks with similar experience posted comments, mostly agreeing with LawDog’s analysis, some providing additional details. Again, these are
INFORMED OPINIONS, not the ignorant twaddle being spewed everywhere else. You might want to read them before jumping to any more conclusions. Won’t this all look stupid if the evidence shows the pipes blew out from the inside?
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I used to live on a farm. I know what bullshit smells like.
