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The scary bit for LNG is a BLEVE (Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion). Even non-flammable liquids undergoing a BLEVE can be incredibly destructive, for ex
by SAI_Peregrinus 9y ago
The scary bit for LNG is a BLEVE (Boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion). Even non-flammable liquids undergoing a BLEVE can be incredibly destructive, for example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgdfgxLApL4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgdfgxLApL4
So it's nothing to do with vapor cloud detonation, that's pretty much irrelevant compared to the destruction of the rapid phase transition from liquid to gas.
- chongli 9y agoI think a tanker ship is pretty safe from a BLEVE. Those explosions usually result from a tank being heated continuously by a very hot fire underneath it. I'm not sure where you would find one of those at sea unless the tanker wrecked on top of an erupting volcano.
- bigiain 9y agoAnd there's my entry for Bruce Schneier's next movie-plot threat contest...
- honestoHeminway 9y agoAs safe as nuclear power!
- GhostVII 9y agoNuclear is incredibly safe
- urethrafranklin 9y agoOf course it is! It comprises two of the safest things in the world, radioactive materials and fission! That's never been a recipe for disaster!
- GhostVII 9y agoIf you are suggesting that a nuclear power plant can detonate like a nuclear bomb, you are wrong, they are a completely different design. Sure they can melt down in rare cases, but that's hardly anything on the scale of a nuke. I would suggest you look at some of the stats for death rates of different power sources. Nuclear is near the bottom, coal kills thousands every year through air pollution. If you want to find a truly dangerous power source, look at hydroelectric, when a dam collapses it is more damaging than a power plant meltdown in some cases.
- urethrafranklin 9y agoSafer than some of the alternatives != safe.
- _Tev 9y agoSo why aren't you panicking over dangerousness of wind turbines? This is pretty bad argument.
- honestoHeminway 9y agoIf only it were not for those meddling humans, he would have got away with it!
- dwighttk 9y agoHow many tankers would you need to noticeably change the explosion power of an average sized volcano eruption?
- logfromblammo 9y agoHow about an LNG bunkering facility in Naples, near the Campi Flegrei volcano? Maybe you start with a minor eruption/earthquake, and the LNG disaster breaches a larger magma chamber to cause a larger eruption? Then you can blanket Europe in ash and start up the typical disaster movie plot, where you follow the Chicken Little and their family as they try to escape the disaster radius.
- panarky 9y agoIs an LNG tanker safe from a bad guy on a fishing boat? https://youtu.be/C3p96VNXSNQ?t=22 https://youtu.be/C3p96VNXSNQ?t=22