OG&E Tower

[PhiAlpha]

^ After a quick glance, I think they are mostly from this site.

[Urbanized]

Yup

[Bellaboo]

dup post.

[Anonymous.]

[G.Walker]

Nice logo...seems like we might have an official headquarters location before renderings of new tower will be released, which is very likely. I wouldn't be surprised if they announced location of HQ in the next few weeks.

[Urbanized]

Actually the name makes a lot of sense and is a little (OK, a tiny) bit on the clever side, considering what a midstream does. Not saying it is sexy, but lots of people hated the Thunder name and logo until they started winning.

[Anonymous.]

I could def see that logo lit up overlooking the Gardens.

[Pete]

I like the name, the logo and their likely choice for world headquarters.


Seriously, if this all goes our way it's a pretty darn big deal... Likely a significant tower, tons of new high-paying jobs with more to come, yet more critical mass to OKC's energy industry, etc., etc.

It's exciting to think how much downtown may change in just the next few years.

[Plutonic Panda]

I like the name, the logo and their likely choice for world headquarters.


Seriously, if this all goes our way it's a pretty darn big deal... Likely a significant tower, tons of new high-paying jobs with more to come, yet more critical mass to OKC's energy industry, etc., etc.

It's exciting to think how much downtown may change in just the next few years.

When you say significant, are you talking Devon significant or realistic significant??? lol, either way, still great for the city.

[Praedura]

You mean that medicine you take when you get stuck lying on your face? lol jk

I just call LifeAlert ("Help! I've fallen, and I can't get up!")

[Praedura]

So if I root for this company to HQ in Oklahoma City, does make me an enabler?

I hope this company "enables" OKC to build a big, fat honkin', tall, slick, stunning, stupid crazy awesome tower in its downtown.

[Praedura]

By the way...

The word "enable" is an anagram of the word "baleen" -- a type of whale.

Just thought I'd point that out...

[Bellaboo]

It's clear CenterPoint's attorney is handling a lot of the setup work, and she and they are based in Houston.

I'm sure the entity will ultimately incorporate as they plan to issue an IPO before the end of the year; and even that can be registered anywhere (i.e., CenterPoint itself is a Delaware corp.).

I would imagine they have to register with all states they have operations in.

[BDP]

That's a horrible name.

I'm sure it will quickly become more commonly known as EMP.

[Pete]

In case you haven't seen this:

http://www.okctalk.com/general-civic...tml#post672275

[Praedura]

In case you haven't seen this:

http://www.okctalk.com/general-civic...tml#post672275

[edcrunk]

OKCTalk is now their first follower.

I had no idea you were on twitter... I'm creepin on all you other guys too.

[metro]

No word yet? Usually 11am or 1pm are good news release times.

[AP]

They just followed about 60 people on twitter, Tons of OKC and Houston people.

[catch22]

Didn't follow me back

Guess I'm not as important as I thought

[Urbanized]

Yeah, besides national industry orgs and publications, the local media and other accounts they followed are all from OKC. Also, the location in the Twitter bio is listed as Oklahoma City/Houston, not the other way around. I think this also bodes well for us.

[zookeeper]

Back to the name and the shortening to EMP....

From The Oklahoman's sister paper in D.C. today comes this scary story and how EMP is not exactly a cuddly word these days (solar and weapons).
Massive solar flare narrowly misses Earth, EMP disaster barely avoided | WashingtonExaminer.com

"The earth barely missed taking a massive solar punch in the teeth two weeks ago, an "electromagnetic pulse" so big that it could have knocked out power, cars and iPhones throughout the United States.

Two EMP experts told Secrets that the EMP flashed through earth's typical orbit around the sun about two weeks before the planet got there.

"The world escaped an EMP catastrophe," said Henry Cooper, who led strategic arms negotiations with the Soviet Union under President Reagan, and who now heads High Frontier, a group pushing for missile defense."

[zookeeper]

Total and complete bollix. I follow solar flare activity. This is sheer makebelieve. It doesn't belong on this thread. Can we get it removed please?

Whoooh. What's up, Sid? It's not make-believe. A Carrington-like event was narrowly avoided. An EMP event of that magnitude would be HUGE, just as the article described. Talking of shortening the new Enable name to EMP makes me think twice about shortening.

[zookeeper]

My friend, you don't know what an EMP is apparently, what they do, and what could cause one. CME's (NOT EMPs) are quite common and range in scale. Even some of the largest we've experienced have gone largely unnoticed on the ground. NASA taking the brunt of them with onboard electronics failing.

I'm not saying that CME's on a dangerous scale don't happen but they are incredibly unlikely and are very regional, not widespread.

Check SOHO images to see that these CME's happen all the time. Some "narrowly miss" and a few make direct impact. We will survive an X-Class event just like we always have. And if one reaches magnitudes never seen before, no amount of government help will, well help.

What we can do and already do is watch and give warning. Like NEO warnings today.

Check out the data yourself: SRS

And I vote we never post anything from the Washington Examiner in any thread not within the politics section for reasons I making very clear right now. Their articles are some of the worst 'journalism' online.

Sorry. Technically speaking, you are right - however many scientists refer to CMEs at Carrington-level strength as being direct EMPs. The threat of EMP explosions (weaponized) in our atmosphere is also a very real threat.

I'm not stupid, I'm well aware that the Examiner is a rag. I was really making a point more about the Enable initials being "EMP" more than anything.

I had no idea it would upset you. I should leave the forum for the day, seems everybody is mad at everybody.

[Plutonic Panda]

My friend, you don't know what an EMP is apparently, what they do, and what could cause one. CME's (NOT EMPs) are quite common and range in scale. Even some of the largest we've experienced have gone largely unnoticed on the ground. NASA taking the brunt of them with onboard electronics failing.

I'm not saying that CME's on a dangerous scale don't happen but they are incredibly unlikely and are very regional, not widespread.

Check SOHO images to see that these CME's happen all the time. Some "narrowly miss" and a few make direct impact. We will survive an X-Class event just like we always have. And if one reaches magnitudes never seen before, no amount of government help will, well help.

What we can do and already do is watch and give warning. Like NEO warnings today.

Check out the data yourself: SRS

And I vote we never post anything from the Washington Examiner in any thread not within the politics section for reasons I making very clear right now. Their articles are some of the worst 'journalism' online.

If I recall right, the worse CME was in the late 1800's and Africa REALLY got it bad. I think a few people got a pretty bad sunburn, but luckily there really wasn't any technology to fry, so the world got by just fine. If that happened today, there would be a lot of unhappy people lol

As I backed out of the thread, I was reminded that this is a thread for the Stage Center Tower. Interesting how humans can go from talking about a skyscraper to a gooo of plasma being shot out from the suns corona. Either way, I love this kind of stuff!!!