Have you stocked up with candles?

Bugly

freehub wrote:

jaddi wrote:

compressed liquid gas will be shipped in from places like russia, as one tanker full is equivilent to the gas pumped out in 21 days from the North sea.

Imagine the explosion if that tanker got blew up then!

I remember seeing a show on that topic while living in the states, I think that for that reason these gas tankers are prohibited from entering some ports (Boston was the city in question). I suppose the explosiveness may be a little exaggerated as the concentration of O2 may be too low to allow the thing to go immediately - I suspect it would burn for days

DavidBelcher

Bugly wrote:

I suppose the explosiveness may be a little exaggerated as the concentration of O2 may be too low to allow the thing to go immediately

Yup, for a big bang the oxidant needs to be in excess. Having been on the wrong end of a couple of sizeable atomic absorption spectrometer explosions [1] (whilst running on a risky nitrous oxide/acetylene mix) down the years, my Dad knows about that only too well....

David

[1] Certainly enough to cause temporary deafness for the rest of the day, thankfully no worse damage than that.