According the published reports, Bayou Corne storage is 1.5 million barrels
of liquid butane (NGL). Blast potential is 100 Hiroshima bombs:
Proposed Inergy WG facility will be 2.1 million BBLS, about 40% larger:
http://www.inergylp.com/midstream/fingerlakes/index.asp.
Assuming a linear scale, the blast potential is thus like 140 hiroshima bombs.
Here's what that looks like:
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?lat=42.412057404481416&lng=-76.89500040417482&zm=15&kt=2240
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May you, and all beings
be happy and free from suffering :)
-- ancient Buddhist Prayer (Metta)
of liquid butane (NGL). Blast potential is 100 Hiroshima bombs:
Proposed Inergy WG facility will be 2.1 million BBLS, about 40% larger:
http://www.inergylp.com/midstream/fingerlakes/index.asp.
Here's what that looks like:
http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?lat=42.412057404481416&lng=-76.89500040417482&zm=15&kt=2240
Fireball extends 2 miles,all the way to watkins glen.
--
May you, and all beings
be happy and free from suffering :)
-- ancient Buddhist Prayer (Metta)
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