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Permalink Reply by Brian Day on July 17, 2018 at 3:31pm

Sometimes I feel as if Middlebury Township and parts of Chatham are like areas on antique maps - labeled Terra Incognita.  Some of the larger wells of the state are there and almost no mention is made of them on this site.  Perhaps there just aren't many contributing members on this forum from that region.  It saddens me that people I grew up with maybe don't bother to inform or be informed.  Perhaps the silence from that area is my answer to a lot of questions over the past ten years.

Permalink Reply by william Allen. Ladd on July 18, 2018 at 12:22am

How right you are Brian.  I do not understand how, considering the area being pretty much at a stand still for so many years that why there is little interest now.

I used to haul milk in the areas between Academy Corners and Little Marsh. My sister and her mate once owned the farm adjoining the former Arbor Entech  property now own by Johnny Painter I believe. There was a gas well over in a swampy area on that farm.  It produce a minimal amount of gas.  Not enough to do more then to be piped to the house for heating and cooking. The problem was  water being eject along with the gas.  A barrel was used to separate the gas from the water.  But in the winter time the moisture collected in the pipe to the house and froze, cutting the flow of gas to the house.  Brother in law poured dry gas into the pipe line to break thru those icy plugs.  Eventually they gave up on the farm and moved to Florida.

Granddad Ladd

Permalink Reply by william Allen. Ladd on July 25, 2018 at 12:30pm

At one time Nuclear powered generators were thought to produce so much electric energy that electric bills would be a thing of the past. One family was so sure of it that they converted to electric heat of their house.  They nearly froze that winter as electric bill was so high they could not pay it

Granddad Ladd! 

Permalink Reply by william Allen. Ladd on July 27, 2018 at 5:13am

Down near Indiana Pennsylvania, Lu and I went by a power company fuel by coal.  The route we took cut off some twenty miles or so from our destination.  However this road was one where tri axle coal dump trucks used to feed this power company generators. A nice drive except for coal trucks whizzing back and forth.

Granddad Ladd

Permalink Reply by Ann Ticopa on August 2, 2018 at 2:37am

KI is NOT a drug.  It (or another I-containing compound(s)) is used in common iodized table salt.  The purpose of the KI tablet would be to flood the thyroid gland with non-radioactive iodine to minimize the absorbtion of radioactive iodine. 

The natural gas classification (and inspection) system recognizes risk to human life based on their proxtimity to pipelines. 

Permalink Reply by Ann Ticopa on August 2, 2018 at 8:21am

TMI-2 did have a partial meltdown. Worst case would be rupture of the containment. 

Anyway, have you no better way to promote natural gas use than to claim the competition's system would make a bigger BOOM if it fails?   (fear mongering)

Permalink Reply by Ann Ticopa on August 2, 2018 at 1:12pm

We seem to be on different tracks. I'm more interested in factors one might consider in picking which fuel to use for residential heating.

Yes, some water used for evaporative cooling may be lost from the source watershed, but not from the water cycle. But at a point, frack water becomes so degraded that it is "buried", removed from the water cycle.

I would not write off coal entirely, at least for occassional residential use. Feeding a wood stove can get old.

Permalink Reply by william Allen. Ladd on August 2, 2018 at 3:56pm

I have cut and split and burned wood most of my 83 years Ann. And I have to say I never got sick of doing it.  The big problem now is my bones protest the work involved. Very few folks today knows and appreciates the comfort of sitting next to a warm kitchen stove warming very cold toes in the oven on a extremely cold below zero winter day.

The surprise of seeing a deer watching from a few yards away as you gather up blocks you have cut from a fallen log. And what about the surprise of a flying squirrel being evicted with all of her babies from a tree you have just cut?  Watching that mother taking one baby at a time up a nearby tree and jumping off to a more distant tree and then returning to take another baby on the same trip.

 Hard work but the rewards are fantastic.

Now a days young folks only want to TAP, Tap, Tap away on a piece of  plastic instead of experiencing firsthand what life has to offer!

 

Granddad Ladd

Permalink Reply by Ann Ticopa on August 3, 2018 at 2:04am

Hi Bill. I was thinking 'feeding" in the sense of getting more fuel on the fire before it goes out. My grandparents had a big double farmhouse, heated with 4 wood/coal stoves. I recall sitting with my feet on the metal skirt around the pot belly stove in one living room.

Permalink Reply by Ann Ticopa on August 3, 2018 at 4:25am

OT: What about existing nuclear power generating facilities and customers? Tri-County REC (Tioga County, PA) distributes electricity produced by Allegheny Electric Cooperative - a combination of nuclear and hycro power.

Permalink Reply by Ann Ticopa on August 3, 2018 at 7:56am

OT: "The Susquehanna plant, located about seven miles north of Berwick, is owned jointly by Susquehanna Nuclear LLC and Allegheny Electric Cooperative Inc. and is operated by Susquehanna Nuclear. For information, visit www.susquehannanuclear.com."

"The Rec" (Tri-County REC) is one of 14 coops that formed Allegheny Electric Cooperative in 1946. 

With PA already being a significant electricity exporter, would it take some shutting down of existing facilities for PJM to approve new ones?

Which brings me to the letter I just got from the windfarm folks.  (I hadn't returned their phone message.)  Actually, the placement of the two towers on the parcel boundary map wasn't bad ... at opposite ends.  Which is way less intrusion than the gas seismic testing people would have made.  A gotcha might be that they would want to run a transmission line from one tower to the other. 

Permalink Reply by paleface on August 11, 2018 at 2:20am

Ann those bird choppers require a lot of maintenance.Hopefully the company will due there due diligence and has the resources to maintain them.

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