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It amazes me they are able to keep this disaster quiet. Nothing for two months. How does that happen?

Updates on the story.

"The company's plan to drill a relief well is now underway, reports the Daily News, and they're drilling a second, backup relief well too, in case the first one doesn't do the trick. The main relief well won't be complete until March, though; the backup well will only begin to be drilled in January, with completion taking between three and four months."
More complete info in the story.
http://la.curbed.com/archives/2015/12/porter_ranch_aliso_canyon_gas_leak_aerial_video_size.php

How they located the leak and other things
http://www.dailynews.com/environment-and-nature/20151227/porter-ranch-gas-well-leak-located-as-more-families-aim-to-move

"The letter to the Environmental Protection Agency from Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma carried a blunt accusation: Federal regulators were grossly overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by energy companies drilling new natural gas wells in his state.

But Mr. Pruitt left out one critical point. The three-page letter was written by lawyers for Devon Energy, one of Oklahoma’s biggest oil and gas companies, and was delivered to him by Devon’s chief of lobbying."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energy-firms-in-secretive-alliance-with-attorneys-general.html

Yet the word "corruption" makes no appearance within the article...

Scale one up using the Pitman arm on one of those gas-well drill hole pumps and crush yourself some 55-Gallon drums!

caught the tail end of a report on npr this morning.

fort worth has been testing air quality around gas wells. apparently they have found 2 bad wells in fort worth so far. of course, they're in the poorest parts of town. of course they're saying the benzene levels aren't actually high enough to cause any damage.

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Note that at :25 the pseudocolor thermogram video shows a huge plume of hot gas emitted from the laser building. What is all that gas? Well, this is a deuterium fluoride adiabatic expansion cooling gas dynamic laser, meaning it acutally uses the light from a flame created by burning ethylene and nitrogen trifluoride and it thus produces a hideously toxic and corrosive exhaust mixture of hydrogen fluoride and halogenated hydrocarbons. This particular laser will never be used on any battlefiled (except perhaps in the airborne laser). Instead, a "solid state heat capacity laser" which uses a bank of sequentially cooled gallium arsenide laser diode pumped, sintered neodymium yttrium aluminium garnet slabs as the lasing medium, in this case having no toxic effluents and being powered by electricity alone. Just recently the new all solid state laser reached a ~70 kilowatt output power, very near the expected 100 KW proof of concept milestone. The fact that we only build devices like this for war is depressing to say the least but the technology and science behind them is just incredibly sexy.