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    Quote Originally Posted by FenceFurniture View Post
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    Consider this: if it did require refrigeration to stay liquid - and there was a problem with the fridge - that hole in the wooden roof would be a stroll in the park compared to what one of those big boys would do.
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    Back in 1990 by sheer chance I happened to witness a BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapour Explosion) near Sydney Airport. I happened to be standing on the front porch having a fag at home in Miranda and saw the MASSIVE explosion fully 14 kilometres away ...
    Your fag ignited that at 14 kms ......

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    Ha! I remember that explosion. Watching it on the telly and news.

    Those were the days. Now only the Chinese have stupendous industrial explosions.... there are so many there every year, but Tianjin is not too bad....


    On the liquid air, its done right now. Its no mystery. BOC does exactly this to obtain Oxygen, Nitrogen, CO2 and Argon. I think they also do Xenon (not so sure that is liquid).

    I saw the first few ARE liquid, as they take the atmosphere, liquefy it, run it up in a fractal still and draw off the stuff they want. All very old fashioned, well understood and terribly interesting!

    I'd imagine the "atmospheric energy" people are essentially doing what BOC does, but selling the by products of cold/heat as a valuable industrial resource, plus they will probably draw off the Argon/Neon/Krypton and sell it! Niiiccceeee!

    So, let run one up!



    edit - how GOOD is THIS !!! Stench Gas | BOC Gas

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodPixel View Post
    Ha! I remember that explosion. Watching it on the telly and news.

    Those were the days. Now only the Chinese have stupendous industrial explosions.... there are so many there every year, but Tianjin is not too bad....
    Crikey, that was an explosion and a half in China!. i wonder how many people were killed when that went off. As for the Boral explosion at St. Peters in 1990, I was leaving a friends place on Russel Street, Emu Plains in western Sydney and saw the sky light up big time, no idea what had happened until the next day. Fortunately there were very few casualties in the St Peters explosion. 30 years ago, time flies.

    Alan...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Uncle Al View Post
    30 years ago, time flies.
    So did the tank.


    Tianjin explosion ..."Dozens of people were killed". I think they may have eliminated the word "thousands" from that sentence. "Dozens of THOUSANDS of people were killed" would be more like it.
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    HEY!

    I just read a short but fascinating news article about a new battery tech using Zinc Bromide in a gel form.

    Storage battery production to create renewable energy solution and jobs in Sydney'''s west - ABC News

    Sounds pretty groovy actually. There must be some downside to it, because there usually is something to be traded off, but the ability to charge to 100% and discharge to zero, combined with refusing to catch fire below 600°C sounds pretty good.
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