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Re:Rule Allows Natural Gas Transport by Rail in Dense Areas by Arnt on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @05:13PM (#25575702)
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?

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Re:Rule Allows Natural Gas Transport by Rail in Dense Areas by Retric on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @05:34PM (#25575892)
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 or 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.

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Re:Rule Allows Natural Gas Transport by Rail in Dense Areas by Arnt on Thursday December 31, 2020 @01:22PM (#25595404)
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?

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