I guess there are no emission rules in "the commons" so they can spew out whatever gives them the lowest cost propulsion.
If they start using LNG to replace it, the price of it will drop, natch.
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Including the safety concerns such as risk to nearby ships and fixed port facilities.
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That's silly. The real issue is that many east coast buildings are old, likely rock or brick, and without earthquake codes and not retrofitted. They will crumble at about mag 6 or so. The easterners aren't used to quakes so don't prepare for them. New Madrid could be an epic disaster.
The people who died here, in the 89 quake, were killed by the Nimitz freeway collapse and by unreinforced brick buildings. Some wood structures collapsed - mostly from soil liquefaction - but the inhabitants mostly walked away.
We were on Judah Street, in a wooden art deco building that did fine, no damage. One CAMAC crate jumped off a shelf and hit the floor. Next door was a 6-story apartment building with a brick facade. All the bricks peeled off and hit the sidewalk. Miraculously, nobody was hurt.
Our current place is an old concrete and wood building, on sand at the north edge of the Mission liquefaction zone. We put in a lot of plywood and bolts and footings and steel before we moved in.
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LA, sitting directly on serious faults, would/will hurt bad in the next big quake. Too many flimsy concrete buildings, and no political will to upgrade them.
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Plus the quality of the ground is a factor, AKA liquefaction.
Because the fracking induced quakes are poorly understood, nobody really knows the upper limit of the quake magnitude. Or the fracking induced quake could cause a natural quake.
When you don't understand something, it is usually when you get screwed. You need to know the science behind the process in order to control it.
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