Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding

What a giant waste of taxpayer money, built when many - especially in east European countries - were already warning something exactly like this year would happen.

Cool technology though.

Re: Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding

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Post by aetherspawn » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 4:38 AM UTC

The fact that someone actually built this, sent it to the bottom of the ocean, and then put people inside it to weld a 1200km pipeline underwater boggles my mind.

Meanwhile we inexplicably struggle to figure out clean/cheap energy at scale.

Re: Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding

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Post by rabanne » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 4:39 AM UTC

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Re: Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding

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Post by qaq » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 4:41 AM UTC

jupp0r wrote: post #4

What a giant waste of taxpayer money, built when many - especially in east European countries - were already warning something exactly like this year would happen. Cool technology though.

For all the talk about how corrupt Eastern European countries are. Russia sure proved western politicians are easy to buy.

Re: Nord Stream: Tie-ins and hyperbaric welding

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Post by teraflop » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 4:41 AM UTC

I found this section from another page on the same site amusing:

> Nord Stream developed a high environmently-conscious logistic concept which guarantees that transport vessels have not to travel more than 100 nautical miles (185 kilometers). [...] This concept of short trips and environmentally friendly transport saves roughly 200,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide when compared against other options and the use of existing concrete coating plants.

-- https://www.wermac.org/nordstream/nordstream_part4.html

For comparison, each of the two Nord Stream pipelines can (well, could) deliver enough natural gas to create more than 150,000 tons of CO2 emissions per day.

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Post by Reason077 » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 4:43 AM UTC

jupp0r wrote: post #4

What a giant waste of taxpayer money, built when many - especially in east European countries - were already warning something exactly like this year would happen. Cool technology though.

The Nord Stream pipelines are owned by Gazprom, in partnership with a consortium of privately owned Western European energy companies (Engie, Shell, E.ON, etc)

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Post by Reason077 » Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 4:46 AM UTC

teraflop wrote: post #8

I found this section from another page on the same site amusing: > Nord Stream developed a high environmently-conscious logistic concept which guarantees that transport vessels have not to travel more than 100 nautical miles (185 kilometers). [...] This concept of short trips and environmentally friendly transport saves roughly 200,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide when compared against other options and the use of existi…

Yeah. Oil & gas companies are masters of this sort of greenwashing.