Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:



I misspoke - that was my fault. I was talking to somebody who lives
in that area and had it on the brain. My bad.

However, I have done some work in this area for a couple of reasons
and I'm not a rabid nut job envitronmentalist by any stretch of
imagination.

Having said that, the problem is not somebody dropping a car full of
explosive off the Mystic River Bridge and tanker goes kablooie. The
potential is if the tanker starts leaking and/or is caused to have a
massive leak of gas - the resulting gas cloud explosion has amazing
explosive potential - almost to the level of low yield tactical nukes.
A lot of TNt.

I don't know if you've ever seen what an FAE Bomb or a grain elevator
dust explosion can do, but I have and we're talking a miniscule amount
atomized fuel as compared to what is contained in a LNG tanker.

I'm also not as sure about the "wide" area of disagreement on this as
you may think.

Later,

Tom
S. Woodstock, CT


The wide area of disagreement may involve some earlier studies which
suggest that the gas cloud must/will need to move some 30-40 miles
before it becomes diluted enough to create a fire and that it will
explode, rather than burn (I have a feeling that this is a technical
rather than realistic difference).
At any rate, there are a number of proposals and it will be interesting
to see how many make it, under what conditions.