Newfie wrote:Google the phrase "boat propane explosion" gander at the images.
It's why I cook with kerosene/parrafin, old school but nearly idiot proof.
KaiserJeep wrote:There are ways to make an LNG tanker into a high yield fuel-air bomb, but they would take extensive modifications to the ship itself and lots of low yield explosives to spread the fuel before igniting same. Frankly, it is much more likely that you would spark a big, intense fire, that spread over the surface waters for a mile or so, but soon goes out. An adequate safeguard against this, is to have offshore facilities to load and unload the LNG tanker at each end, and to never bring it into a populated area when full of LNG.
The more likely source of a major explosion would be a tanker full of refined diesel fuel or gasoline, especially the former. For a high yield fuel-air explosion, you want a fuel that resists ignition just long enough to spread before the secondary ignition. But fortunately for the developed countries, the countries of the Middle East bombed each other's refineries into rubble decades ago. This forced us to ship crude petroleum overseas to refineries in other countries. That turned out to be overall a good thing, else we might already have had several tankers of refined fuels explode. Crude is not especially dangerous or usable as a fuel-air explosive.
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Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Newfie wrote:So does anyone know for a fact what the thickness is of one of these tanks? What grade metal?
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