Favorite team:Alabama 
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Interests:SEC football, FC Barcelona, and science
Occupation:Assistant Professor of Engineering & Physics
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Registered on:2/22/2012
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Of those 15 pages, nothing was really that noteworthy apart from a couple sections under 4, and then one questionable thing under 2 where it focused on “gender, women/girls, and youth” in fighting the start of domestic terrorism.

Under section four it was mostly just gun buy back programs.


Evidently, I read it a minute too slow, plus his response was formatted better. So go with that.
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We got the best handicapped in the country.


Roll Tide!
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I’m currently in Copenhagen to visit my daughter who is in grad school here


Very cool. Is she at Copenhagen or DTU (technically in Lyngby). Used to teach over there in the summers.

re: And....They're Off! Market Opens

Posted by BamaChemE on 4/7/25 at 8:48 am
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An off grid bunker in a moderate climate with 2 years of food stored, the tools and parts to replace solar panels, and about 1M rounds in ammo among various firearms?


:Rookie numbers gif:
Val: Look up the word idiot in the dictionary, know what you’ll find?

RDJ: Uh, a picture of me.

Val: No, the definition of the word idiot which you fricking are!

re: Alabama school lunch lady ...

Posted by BamaChemE on 4/5/25 at 8:50 am
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Holy shite, I work with her husband.


You are now in a position to bring real info to this thread, and potentially get an invite to the OT legends board.


Don’t waste this opportunity.
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Sound very David Koresh-ish.



More like David Quran, am I right?

:rimshot:

re: Yellowjackets season 3 thread

Posted by BamaChemE on 3/31/25 at 11:34 am
I can kinda get Lotte wanting to stay and keep power (control of others not psychic abilities) off her meds. Shauna and Ty deciding to stay is a tougher sell.

Adult Shauna just going crazy and ruining her own life is nice. I’m hoping she ends up alone in a institution for the criminally insane, Tyisa gets arrested for murder, and Misty finds acceptance and true love with Walter.

re: international students

Posted by BamaChemE on 3/31/25 at 9:08 am
Universities like them because their tuitions are higher and a lot of the time, the country they come from pays that tuition. If you’re able to sell the same product at a higher price to one group of people, what reason (other than patriotism) would you have for trying to reduce that number of people paying higher prices?
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I don't see why. There's like 15,000 feet of ground you can inject that into. Maybe not the top 1,000 ft or so because that's aquifer, but the depths of 1,000 to 15,000 ft. The wells produced from reservoirs like 50 to 300 ft thick. They should be able to find some zone, some where that can take it.


The approved zones from the RRC are quickly reaching the max allowable pressures.

There was an old-old well that I think got used as an unauthorized disposal well that popped off in 2022 in Crane County and made everything look like a winter wonderland.



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An oft times partner spoke with the engineer riding herd on this project. It's not the lithium being targeted. About 40 MW of power being generated to power it. He initially asked for thermal screws for drying the cake then went on to ask about other equipment. Afterall, I sold monel forced circulation evaporators to Cargill to handle their salt water from salted cattle hide production at Amarillo in the late 1980's. These came from Ethyl (Albemarle) Chlor Alkali plant at Baton Rouge.


Reading this I think I misunderstood your original post. You’re talking about using the natural gas as a power source for a processing plant, not as an agent for cleaning the water, and that they are also trying to sell some of the recovered salts. I read it as two separate projects, no was just commenting on the work that many researchers are currently doing to extract Li from the produced water. Having no knowledge of the specifics of the project you were referring to sure they can go after any number of chemical species present in that stuff.
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A company is putting together a plant which "free" natural gas to clean up the produced water and sell it.


I know this was an oversimplification of a complex process, but as currently stated, that can’t work.

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Also, recovering some of the salts from it to sell.


Yep. Huge efforts focused on recovering lithium from the brines.
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that seems cost prohibitive


Currently, yeah, very much so, but with available pore space filling up and pressure concerns, the ambiguous “they” are saying that within 5 years water disposal is going to have to be shipped out of the Permian, which super inflates disposal costs making that which is currently cost prohibitive economically competitive.
Produced water is nasty as frick. It’s not from an aquifer.

We are trying to find ways to at least get it to EPA standards for surface disposal, which could make the area a bit more green.
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How is that fricker not bloody? Two or three big dudes on him before the cops got there and nobody slammed his face on the tile?

re: SEC Domination

Posted by BamaChemE on 3/23/25 at 7:29 pm
Just out of curiosity, who was the 8th team to make the round of 32, but so far the only one to let us down. Surely they didn’t lose to a lower seeded team.
We have three timeouts. If it gets to three seconds on an inbounds play, use one