[RayChuang88]

I do, however, have one concern about liquefied natural gas: it is a GIGANTIC explosion hazard. My concern is that if the LNG tank on a commercial ship experiences a major leak, you'll have a massive release into a cloud of natural gas that one spark will ignite--and the resulting explosion would have an explosive force measured in the tens of tons of TNT, enough to possibly blow a show to literal smithereens.

[thackney]

it is a GIGANTIC explosion hazard.

No, it isn't.

LNG won't even ignite, it has to be warmed to a vapor first. The methane vapor has to be diluted down to 15% concentration with air before it will ignite.

By the time a significant quantity has warmed and diluted, it is far up in the air when the leak occurs outside.

Methane (natural gas) is only explosive when mixed with air in a confined space, trapping it from rising away.

[meatloaf]

That’s like the fear mongering Edison and his minions practiced over Tesla/Westinghouse building AC generation and transmission to compete with Edison’s DC projects. AC won the battle and enabled civilization as we know it today even though Edison electrocuted an elephant.