re: #36 jaunte

My dilemma-we must have the energy. Just can’t pretend “something will come up’ to solve that.
Has the Alaska pipeline been a big spill problem? IIRC the worst spill was when some asshole shot it. And what if we compare that risk to oil tankers? They crash, they sink etc.

Alaska pipe-

… It was designed to withstand powerful earthquakes, and did just that on Nov. 3, 2002, when a 7.9-magnitude earthquake centered about 50 miles west of the pipeline shook near Denali National Park.

The ground along the fault moved an estimated 18 feet horizontally and nearly 2.5 feet vertically. The quake was so strong that it opened cracks 6 feet wide in roads and rocked boats on lakes as far away as Louisiana.

Yet, the 48-inch diameter pipe did not rupture.