You got to at least get three digits in the water, as next to non-existent US mine sweeping resources are, I think the USN can somehow figure out how to deal with 10 mines.
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You got to at least get three digits in the water, as next to non-existent US mine sweeping resources are, I think the USN can somehow figure out how to deal with 10 mines.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Also, you cant actually shut down and turn on wellheads at will, for the most part shutting down a well is permanent. If a long term closure of the strait happens, that's basically it. Which is why the Gulf States will almost certainly, grudgingly, help minesweep and open the strait by any means.
Lol, its actually kind of impressive how clueless you are on this stuff. I dont think Iran mining the Hormuz is going to meaningfully impact China's ability to get coking coal from inner Mongolia to its integrated mills.
This is what I do for a living, Im telling you, no matter how much money throw at the problem its a multi year project to get more than a trickle of oil out, both from supply chain bottlenecks to simple geology.
Grading flat dirt road takes a lot of time, especially in the Arbian desert where you either have to do soil treatment to keep everything from sinking into the sand, or your slowly blasting your way over mountain ranges.
Even if you throw more money than god at the problem building a pipeline from existing Gulf terminals and fields to a new Red Sea or Mediterranean port is going to be a multi-year effort.
A lot of that stuff simply isn't land transportable, if you cant get tankers into the Gulf, you're not getting the much harder to come by heavy lift ships into the Gulf either. Also ports and pipelines both have geologic and hydraulic issues you cant speed up. 9 women cant make a baby in a month.
Yes and no, a lot of the more specialized subsystems, especially around the actual terminals is pretty supplier constrained. I dont think you're getting a new Deepwater marine terminal faster than Japan Steel Works, Doosan, and CFHI could turn out a RPV forging.
See Effy, the problem is you're talking about electricity not power. There is simply no way to use electricity to make steel, you would need something insane like some sort of electric arc furnace, which is simply pure sci-fi claptrap
Granted more AP1000s arent a near term solution, but I honestly wouldnt say they'd take much longer than new pipeline b/c:
A. Pipelines actually take a long time to build in any meaningful capacity
B. Any new AP1000s wont have the same FOIK licensing issues Vogtle and Sumner experienced.
Even then there are quite a few regulatory hurdles to get over to using naval reactors. Also Im assuming we're using A1B reactors as a catch all, but Im not even sure where the next one of those is at in terms of production, most of the Naval Reactor supply chain is tied up with S9Gs
Arguably better if you dont know how to steer
Wr're taking "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" to bold new levels
Youre welcome
Take it up with Tom (of Finland)
Plenty of vascular problems associated with steroid usage that can cause complications to even a routine surgery.
All the germs and diseases trying to enter RFKs body at once and getting stuck
Shared this with my spouse who is a doctor and their reaction is "VRSA would be even better"
My great grandmother so hated having to haul laundry over a big ass hill to the local stream to wash it as a child (an all day affair) that I and her other descendents are still talking about it.
Our ancestors fled to the cities at the start of the industrial revolution because spending 16 hours a day in front of the arm-mangler 5000 was still way better than subsistence farming & ironically made you less likely to starve to death.
The entirety of this Admin in a nutshell
Bautista could pull it off.
*Norman Borlaug Thought intensifies*
INDOPACOM CCMDR Man who thought he'd lost all hope loses lasr additional bit of hope he didnt even know he still had
Hopefully get a few more AP1000s up and running too, but again the large nuclear forgings is a serious bottleneck although the AP1000s have a more global supplychain they can pull from than Naval reactors.
What you're going to get is a bunch of uprates on existing nuke plants, Alva Energy has already been promising it can get an extra 10 GWe just by using its system to uprate the current fleet of Westinghouse 3 and 4 loop PWRs.
You're not getting A1Bs the large forging capacity is already maxed out on current orders and the supposed >90% enrichment not only makes it non-starter due to non-proliferation concerns, there simply isnt the enrichment capacity to meaningfully make more cores than are already on order.
The writer of this piece bought a small farm just north of Iowa City with her professor husband & has never run the farm herself. The land wasn't farmed at all from 2017 to 2020 because they couldn't find a tenant.