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To: thackney; SeeSac

>>Nearly all of out Natural Gas supply is Natural Gas powered. Only a few location use electric drive compression.

Actually, due to relatively new EPA regs on stationary gas turbines, pipeline companies are starting to switch from using gas turbines to electric motors to drive the pipeline compressors. This was one element in the natural gas shortages in New Mexico in the recent cold snap. The power goes out, and all the sudden you’re not moving natural gas.

Another unintended consequence of the environmental do-gooders, making critical infrastructure unnecessarily dependent on another piece of critical infrastructure that just happens to be vulnerable in a cold weather event.


52 posted on 02/12/2011 1:58:01 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster; thackney

Also, electric dehydrators are much more efficient.


59 posted on 02/12/2011 3:14:05 PM PST by SeeSac
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