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Canada's biggest railroad says it is attracting interest from oil producers in its effort to move crude in solid, puck-like form, as clogged pipelines divert more oil to riskier rail transport.
Congested pipelines have stranded much of Canada's crude in Alberta, driving discounts to record-high levels. Canadian heavy crude traded on Friday for less than one-third of the U.S. benchmark light oil price.Pipeline pressure has pushed more crude onto trains ... [b]ut crude movement by rail is costly and prone to spills and sometimes disastrous accidents.
Canapux, a hockey puck. See photo below taken from twitter.Enter CN's patented Canapux product, which is solidified crude encased in plastic, named to evoke the country's most popular sport, hockey. The railroad argues that solid crude, never before commercially shipped in the world, can be transported more cheaply, efficiently and with less environmental risk than liquid crude in tank cars. Since it floats, Canapux is easier to recover from a spill into a water body.
The reader who sent me this sent a great note. I will post without editing:
Just totally disregarding the unicorns that will magically manufacture the plastic casing and convert it to sparkling dew...If they get this Canapux thing up and running, they can virtually eliminate transportation costs. Every youth hockey league in Canada will construct and adopt a length of synthetic ice. Each team will shoot the Pux down their assigned lanes on to the next team. Sort of like a Pony Express.
By the way, see if you can see the real "Miracle on Ice" in the first YouTube video linked above.They can have tournaments to see how quickly they can shoot from Ft. McMurray to Burnaby. Then the pros can take over and shoot goals onto the ship. Canada will have permanent possession of La Coupe Stanley. (;>)I love the Internet for this sort of stuff:I found that clip while looking for Lamoreaux's famous shot. Here it is at 2:20. But it's fun to see all the shots and that only takes 3 minutes.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoSWvxeBiWc
With regard to the second-linked YouTube video, the most fun, perhaps, is watching the post-success celebratory reaction by the skater and then by her team. Perhaps the best segment begins at 1:20.
By the way, the Canapux is now being picked up on twitter:
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