News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Rule Allows Natural Gas Transport by Rail in Dense Areas. Parent comment

Re:Rule Allows Natural Gas Transport by Rail in Dense Areas by jjk166 on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @08:47AM (#25569667)
That was a runaway train that wound up going 105 kph around a turn rated for 16 kph and derailed on the main street of a town. It wasn't even carrying natural gas, just crude oil. This change to regulations would have no impact on such an event happening again.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Rule Allows Natural Gas Transport by Rail in Dense Areas by Pfhreak on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @09:26AM (#25569983)
If that train had been carrying corn, would the result have been the same amount of damage?

What could have happened on the worst case if the train was carrying LNG?

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Rule Allows Natural Gas Transport by Rail in Dense Areas by ars on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @09:58AM (#25570269)
Natural Gas is lighter than air, not much would have happened.

The LNG would vaporize, rise into the air and there would be a short lived fire.

If you read the damage description it's mostly due to petroleum contamination and fire. None of that would happen with LNG.

[ Parent | on HN ]