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Imagine you are digging a hole in a street with a backhoe, minding your own business, and then you slice into an underground crude oil pipeline. What might that look like? Here’s the answer:
It took about 30 minutes to shut off the flow. In that time, tens of thousands of gallons of oil sprayed out. See where it all headed in this video, where they use a news helicopter to get an overhead shot:
A couple weeks ago we looked that “Saw Stop” technology in this post. Since the pipeline is made of metal, and the back hoe boom is made of metal, it seems like there might be some way you could use an electrical signal on the pipeline and help prevent this from happening.
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