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The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

281 points · 115 comments · johnjwang

  1. Ellis_dev · · focus · HN ↗
    Makes you appreciate the physical infrastructure challenges, not just software. Bet the data logging and monitoring systems are ancient but robust.
    1. bt1a · · focus · HN ↗
      Yea man the federal government is on top of protecting civilian groundwater supplies and communicating discoveries of contamination
      1. walleeee · · focus · HN ↗
        I know you jest, but the US govt funds a lot of water science. Whether that's put to use in the public interest is another question ofc and one we should be asking
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