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AIUI it's not flammable. It is flammable when mixed with air in the right proportion, but if it's mixed with air it is a gas and rises straight up, rather than

• Retric 6y ago
  Again small scale vs large scale. If your talking a square foot of the stuff then it’s going to rise like your suggesting. Cover a few acres in LNG you get complex boundary layer interactions and giant swirls of natural gas mixed with air. Read up on how you can get temperature inversion layers in the atmosphere. In your model that kind of effect shouldn’t happen, but actual fluid dynamics gets complicated.
  • Arnt 6y ago
    Explain how you get spontaneous combustion in the spots where the mixture is right. Or were you thinking about transporting LNG together with something that that would help start a fire?
    • Retric 6y ago
      Train crashes have plentiful ignition sources as metal scrapes across metal. Oddly enough it’s surprisingly common for train crashes to result in fires ex: https://youtu.be/vww5V-xmtzs https://youtu.be/vww5V-xmtzs or https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/07/06/recent-derailments-bring-to-light-risks-of-oil-trains-in-city/ https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2016/07/06/recent-derailments... or the original disaster I mentioned. At which point those secondary fires can easily ignite the literal pools on LNG being described.
      • Arnt 6y ago
        I've thought about this a few times now. Would you describe this as a noticeable risk compared to driving around in a car, in urban traffic, with gasoline? Or are you comparing it rather to an alternative that more or less avoids transport of LNG?