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It seems from a cursory search that they weren't pipelines so much as vessels that people carried around, like a primitive propane tank, but that's still pretty
by mattmaroon 9y ago
It seems from a cursory search that they weren't pipelines so much as vessels that people carried around, like a primitive propane tank, but that's still pretty impressive.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoSearch a little harder.
- mattmaroon 9y ago"During the Tang dynasty, a gazetteer of Sichuan province stated that at one of these 182 m (600 ft) 'fire wells', men collected natural gas into portable bamboo tubes which could be carried around for dozens of km (mi) and still produce a flame.[287] These were essentially the first gas cylinders; Robert Temple assumes some sort of tap was used for this device.[287]" Can also find evidence of them sticking a bamboo shoot into the well and lighting the gas that comes out on fire. But not anything concrete about them piping it long distances.
- dredmorbius 9y agoTrue, but see elsewhere in this thread: there's documentation of fairly extensive piping systems, though specific quantitative assessments are hard to find. I've been looking off-and-on for a few years. thaumasiotes's comment above was worse than useless.