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Jonathan Corbet

An interesting post on BLDGBLOG points out a problem with the US petroleum reserve that had never crossed my mind: this reserve was only designed to last through five empty-and-fill cycles.

"The Financial Times calculates that we are already at the cavern’s ninth historic drawdown, suggesting that 'catastrophic structural damage,' including dissolution of the salt caverns, is now a viable risk."

https://bldgblog.com/2026/03/contextual-collapse/
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That's wild

Wonder if that's part of the reason we never fully refilled it after the last drawdown? It's been sitting at half capacity for years now

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