Updates
Later, 6:47 p.m. CT: this is pretty interesting; proves a point I was trying to make earlier.
Back on May 3, 2019, I posted a note about additional pipelines in the Bakken. A reader noted that this was all well and good but these were just "local" projects, and at some point, some "real" pipeline needed to be laid to handle the huge amount of oil coming out of the Bakken. I replied that these local, regional pipeline projects fed into bigger interstate projects ... and this is a great example. More and more local projects feeding into hubs in North Dakota -- now we have another pipeline to handle that increased production....hopefully.
Original Post
From the (Fargo) Inforum: a new Bakken pipeline. Details:
- Liberty Pipeline, a joint venture between two companies:
- Phillips 66
- Bridger Pipeline
- The project:
- origin: the Bakken; southwest corner of North Dakota
- via: Guernsey, WY
- terminal: Cushing, Oklahoma
- route not yet clear
- proposed capacity: 200,000 bbls
- cost: $1.6 billion
- in-service date: as early as 1Q21 (hope springs eternal)
I've looked at this before (I can't remember why) and the route goes through relatively "favorable" states.
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A Long, Long Note For The Granddaughters
Note:
not proofread; not ready for primetime. I'm posting this for our
granddaughters, but I'm also posting it because I think some Williston readers will enjoy the article (a PDF)
linked below.
One of three books I'm reading this week:
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life, Nick Lane, c. 2015.
I've read it at least twice. I'm reading parts of it again this week.
From the book:
The mitochondrial respiratory chain:
- determined by two genomes
- the host's nuclear genome
- the mitochondrion's own genome
- this has been known since the 1970s
- mitochondrial respiratory proteins, two functions involved in cell survival:
- transfer electrons from food to oxygen, while
- pumping protons across the mitochondrial membrane
- to reach oxygen, electrons must hop down a respiratory chain from one "redox" center to another
- redox centers typically accept or donate electrons one at a time
- the precise location of these redox centers are deep in the respiratory chain
- their locations are determined by the two genomes (the host's nuclear genome, and the mitochondrial's own genome)
- electrons hop by a process known as quantum tunneling
I first learned of quantum tunneling as a junior in high school
from my high school chemistry teacher, Mr Ceglowski. For me, two two
strangest things coming out of quantum theory is:
- quantum tunneling, and
- entanglement
I didn't "understand" entanglement until by happenstance when I
picked up Louisa Gilder's book on the subject while visiting my sister
in Tucson. One of my nieces had read the book and let me borrow it. That
was only a few years ago.
But tunneling? I learned about that in 1968 or thereabouts from Mr Ceglowski.
The Williston Coyote Foundation has a Henry "Hank" Ceglowski Memorial Scholarship.
Wow,
wow, wow --- and this is why I love to blog. If I wasn't doing this, I
never would have gone down this rabbit hole -- as one of my readers (and
frequent contributors) would call it. I wanted to make sure I had
spelled his name correctly, but I was also a bit curious about Mr
Ceglowski. I've blogged about him before, and have searched the internet
for information on him but never came across this article before.
Almost
a doppelgänger -- if not a a doppelgänger, our paths certainly crossed a
lot, though separated by what appears to be ten years. I attended
Williston High School in the late 60's; it sounds like Mikel M. Miller
attended the same school in the late 70's.
The link to this incredible story will download a PDF on your desktop:
https://insidegnss.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/sepoct16-HUMAN-Miller.pdf.
It's a fairly recent article, published in September/October, 2016.
Mikel
M. Miller is the US Air Force's lead scientist for positioning,
navigation, and timing (PNT) science and technology development. At the
time of the article, Miller was the chief scientist in a directorate at
the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Eglin Air Force Base,
Florida. At that time he had more than 30 years of experience in
research, development, testing, integrating, and implementing
state-of-the-art guidance, navigation, and control hardware and software
systems for DOD.
The article is a long, long article
filled with anecdotes and vignettes unique to a handful of us who
attended Williston High School and ended up in the USAF. It's uncanny.
At the article, in a sidebar, this:
Back in High School in Williston, North Dakota, two teachers made lasting impression on a young Mikel Miller — his math teacher, Mr. Degele, and his chemistry teacher, Mr. Ceglowski.
“Both
had such a love and passion for their subjects. They taught with such
enthusiasm and clarity — it made both subjects mean so much more to me.”
Later, he says, Dr. Peter
Maybeck was probably the most influential mentor in his professional
life. “He also had a strong impact in my personal life. The way he
treated and interacted with people was his greatest strength and
blessing. He had a unique way of making you feel at ease and you always
felt like you were the most important person in the room when your were
with him.”
I had both Mr Ceglowski
and Mr
Degele. I don't think I could have asked for a better math teacher, but,
wow, math was tough for me. I can't say I enjoyed it but I did find it
interesting. Chemistry, on the other hand, was incredible. Wow, I loved
it. And Mr Ceglowski was the best ever. I remember how he demanded much
of his students and expected them to live by the rules, but he, himself,
loved to push the envelope. I remember him carrying a huge television
set up to the second floor chemistry lab so we could watch the world
series. Televisions were absolutely
verboten in the classroom; I
have no idea how he got away with it. Both the principal and the
superintendent were harsh, strict, but fair, taskmasters.
Let's
see, I graduated in the spring of 1969. That means I took chemistry the
year before, the 1967 - 1968 school year, which means the World Series
we watched in Mr Ceglowski's chemistry class was in the fall of 1967.
From wiki:
Heading into the final
weekend of the 1967 season, when Rod Carew was named the A.L. Rookie of
the Year, the Twins, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, and Detroit
Tigers all had a shot at clinching the American League championship. The
Twins and the Red Sox started the weekend tied for 1st place and played
against each other in Boston for the final three games of the season.
The Red Sox won two out of the three games, seizing their first pennant since 1946 with a 92–70 record.
The Twins and Tigers both finished one game back, with 91–71 records, while the White Sox finished three games back, at 89–73.
In 1969,
the new manager of the Twins, Billy Martin, pushed aggressive base
running all-around, and Carew set the all-time Major League record by
stealing home seven times in addition to winning the first of seven A.L.
batting championships.
With
Killebrew slugging 49 homers and winning the AL MVP Award, these 1969
Twins won the very first American League Western Division Championship,
but they lost three straight games to the Baltimore Orioles, winners of
109 games, in the first American League Championship Series. The Orioles
would go on to be upset by the New York Mets in the World Series.
Martin was fired after the season, in part due to an August 1969 fight
in Detroit with 20-game winner Dave Boswell and outfielder Bob Allison,
in an alley outside the Lindell A.C. bar.
Bill Rigney led the Twins to a repeat division title in 1970,
behind the star pitching of Jim Perry (24-12), the A.L. Cy Young Award
winner, while the Orioles again won the Eastern Division Championship
behind the star pitching of Jim Palmer. Once again, the Orioles won the
A.L. Championship Series in a three-game sweep, and this time they would
win the World Series.
Wow, what a digression.
So, from Nick Lane on mitochondria to quantum tunneling to Williston High School chemistry to Mr Ceglowski to
insideGNSS and Mikel M. Miller and then to the Minnesota Twins at wiki.
