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Jimi said:
Too old for North of 60... young men with more strength and less ummm... can HAVE that shit, eh? :D
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I live at 61°N and am putting up a little get-away at 62.2°N. Then again, it's a milder climate than most (or all) of Canada at 60°N.
 
Made in China

From the WSJ:

BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)--China National Nuclear Corp., or CNNC, has expressed interest in helping to build Argentina's fourth nuclear power plant, Argentina's Planning Ministry said Tuesday.

Planning Minister Julio de Vido met with the head of CNNC, Mao Xiaming, to discuss the tender of construction contracts. They agreed that a Chinese delegation will travel to Argentina in August, while in September representatives from Argentina's National Atomic Energy Commission will visit China, the ministry said.

De Vido is in China accompanying President Cristina Fernandez, who started an official visit to the Asian giant on Monday.

The Argentine government plans to pick the builder of the 1,500-megawatt Atucha 3 plant later this year, and the government has already identified four possible construction companies: Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, or AECL, France's Areva SA (ARVCY, CEI.FR), the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation, Rosatom, and Westinghouse Electric Co., the U.S. unit of Toshiba Corp. (TOSYY, 6502.TO).

According to an Energy Department presentation, the plant could come online in 2016-2017, while local press have reported it will cost more than $3 billion to build. Industry analysts say that Argentina's government-run nuclear-power industry is notorious for cost and time overruns.

Nuclear power currently accounts for 6.8% of Argentina's electric power generation capacity, and the government expects that to rise to 21.1% in 2025.

The country currently has two operating nuclear power plants--Atucha I, built with Siemens AG (SI, SIE.XE), and Embalse, built with Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, or AECL, in the province of Cordoba. The 360MW Atucha 1 came online in 1974, while the 650MW Embalse began operating a decade later.

Argentina has started a $1 billion upgrade of Embalse, which seeks to extend the plant's working life for an additional 25 years beyond the original termination date of 2011.

Embalse supplies power to the country's northeast, including the Cuyo and Centro regions and greater Buenos Aires. It uses technology from AECL and is fueled by natural uranium that hasn't been enriched.

The third nuclear plant, Atucha 2, should be completed by the end of this year. The plant, which will generate about 700 megawatts and provide about 3% of Argentina's total power output, was originally supposed to come online in 1987, but was stalled for 14 years because of political and economic obstacles.

Argentina relaunched its nuclear-power program in 2006 as energy woes began to worsen. Shortages of natural gas used to fuel conventional generation plants started appearing in early 2004, while the national power grid began running short on generation capacity in late 2006.

Although Argentina's atomic-power program was largely put on ice in the 1990s, nuclear research remained active.

State-owned company INVAP has steadily engaged in nuclear development projects, including a 20MW nuclear research reactor inaugurated in Australia in 2007.

Among other nuclear advantages, Argentina also has inactive uranium mines and the capacity to enrich uranium, process fuel rods, and produce the heavy water used in reactors.

Since 2003, Argentina has increased its power-generation capacity by about 30% to 24,000 megawatts.

Price caps and other policies have limited profit and led most companies to invest less in exploration and production, industry executives say.

Since 1998, Argentina's crude oil output has fallen by 25% and it faces the prospect of becoming a net importer. Gas production has been declining since 2004.

Oil and gas reserves also have declined, and Argentina hasn't had a major discovery in 15 years, according to research done by eight former Argentine energy secretaries.

The Argentine government recently said it may build a fifth nuclear power plant after completing the construction of its third and fourth nuclear plants.

"We're thinking about building a fifth plant, though we haven't evaluated all at the details yet," Planning Ministry spokesman Horacio Mizrahi said in an interview.
 
Piping gas to Oregon.....

YahooNews:


"A $3 billion gas pipeline from Wyoming to Oregon has cleared its last major regulatory hurdle, and its builder is optimistic that work could begin soon.
El Paso Corp. has begun staging equipment and pipe sections near the 675-mile route, company spokesman Richard Wheatley said Tuesday. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved and granted rights-of-way for the project Monday.
"We can mobilize workers and work camps to begin clearing and grading operations as soon as we get final regulatory approval," Wheatley said. "We're in good shape."
Houston-based El Paso expects final Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval within days, he said, and construction would begin soon after.
The pipeline will begin in western Wyoming and cross northern Utah and Nevada before ending at Malin, Ore. Up to 5,000 workers will work on the project at Opal, which will begin in seven locations along the pipeline route.
El Paso expects the pipeline, which will be 42 inches wide, to become operational in March 2011. In comparison, the 800-mile-long oil pipeline in Alaska is only six inches larger in diameter.
The BLM decision required approval from other federal agencies including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.
The federal government is awaiting agreements from state historic preservation offices in the four states, but that too is expected soon. The agreements help ensure the project doesn't unnecessarily disrupt archaeological and other important cultural sites.
"It's just a matter of putting the documents together and sending them out for a signature. We're almost there," said Mark Mackiewicz, project manager for the BLM.
Environmentalists, including the Hailey, Idaho-based Western Watersheds Project, say the route crosses too many undeveloped lands when the pipeline could be built along highways and other developed corridors."
 
rosco rathbone said:
Ready, willing and able, sir!

I'm going back to journeyman extension school this fall for my city and state structural SMAW papers.
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Up this way, anyone who wants to work is working.

Learn to weld pipe and go see the world......
 
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