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Fried Ice

机译：炒冰

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By two o'clock on a late fall afternoon on alaska's North Slope, the sun is already setting and the well structures are casting long purple shadows, turning the snowy landscape into a postmodern version of Monet's haystack paintings. In the midst of this scene stands Ian Buist, a chemical engineer who works with the U.S. Minerals Management Service, putting the finishing touches on a spill. Clad in several coats, coveralls, a yellow Tyvek suit, a flotation vest, and a hard hat with insulated flaps, Buist has made six oil spills today and hundreds more in 23 years of studying their physical chemistry. Me measures out two gallons of crude and pours it evenly onto a six-foot pancake of broken ice floating in 16,000 gallons of seawatcr. "Every crude oil is different, and every well is different," Buist says. He tosses in two sandwich bags that each contain precisely four ounces of napalm―a mixture of fatty acids and gasoline that forms a flammable jelly―and watches his spill go up in three-toot flames, For a minute or two, the fire takes the chill off the Arctic night, but then it dies, leaving a sludge that cools to resemble cheap chocolate. No two oil spills of the six he's igniting burn the same, and some burn weakly before sputtering out. Buist is trying to learn if fire can be used to clean up oil spills on slushy ice during the fall―conditions considered too dangerous for cleanup workers operating out of boats.
机译：到了深秋的下午，在阿拉斯加北坡的两点钟，太阳已经落山了，井的结构开始投射出长长的紫色阴影，使白雪皑皑的风景变成了莫奈干草堆画的后现代版本。在现场中间的是伊恩·布伊斯特（Ian Buist），他是化学工程师，他与美国矿产管理服务局（U.S. Minerals Management Service）合作，为泄漏物画上画龙点睛的一笔。 Buist身着几件大衣，工作服，黄色特卫强西装，浮选背心和带隔热口盖的安全帽，如今已进行了六次漏油，在研究其物理化学的23年中，它发生了数百次漏油。我测量出两加仑的原油，然后将其均匀地倒入漂浮在16,000加仑seawatcr中的六英尺厚的碎冰薄饼上。 Buist说：“每种原油都不同，每口井都不同。”他把两个三明治袋扔进去，每个三明治袋中正好装有四盎司的凝固汽油（一种脂肪酸和汽油的混合物，形成了可燃的果冻），看着他的溢出物冒出三声嘟嘟的火焰，一两分钟，大火吞噬了让北极的夜晚平静下来，但随后死亡，留下的污泥冷却后变得像廉价的巧克力。在他所点燃的六个溢油中，没有两个溢油燃烧得一样，有一些在喷出之前燃烧得很弱。 Buist试图了解在秋季跌落时是否可以使用火清除掉积冰上的漏油。这种情况被认为对于从船外操作的清理工人来说太危险了。

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