Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: redgolum
The technology for LNG shipping exists.

Absolutely. These ships have been in service for decades. I recently learned about CNG ships using compartments of coiled "tubing".

51 posted on 09/09/2014 12:18:35 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies ]


To: thackney

LOL! One of my coworkers played with those. Like I said, I didn’t deal with the ship side other than getting the stuff “to” them, but I do remember the designs were pretty cool. Big issue is that you need to have it segmented so they can pop off one section, and keep integrity on the others. So there are tons of gas meters, pop offs, back flows, etc.

I don’t know what they do now, but he said that they were investigating using stacks of tanks instead of a dedicated ship. The benefit was that older freight tankers could retrofitted, but the cost was higher because you needed specialized containers, and multiples of them them.

You know, I should call him. It has been a number of years since we talked and I bet he has some rather interesting insight into this.


54 posted on 09/09/2014 12:24:58 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 51 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson