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MaggieL 08-31-2006 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Flint
There is like, a tube, or somthing, there . . . hmmmmmm

That's the Internet. It's a series of tubes.

Flint 08-31-2006 05:44 PM

Right, it's not a big truck.

xoxoxoBruce 08-31-2006 07:45 PM

I'm pretty sure I mentioned before, the guy at Westinghouse that filled balloons for his kid's birthday party, with acetylene. Stuffed them in two big trash bags and headed for the gate.

They couldn't fire him for theft, because there was no evidence. But he did lose most of his clothing...... in the explosion. :crazy:

jaufrec 08-31-2006 07:45 PM

five hours of gas if you have a big grill
 
According to Reader's Digest, "A full-size gas grill (35,000 Btu) will cook for 30 minutes per pound of propane."

According to Wikipedia, propane masses 1.83 kg/m3, or about two pounds per cubic meter.

Say the bag in the picture has between 3 and 8 cubic meters of gas - let's say five. Then it's 10 pounds of gas, or half of a standard 20lb cylinder, or enough to cook on a (large, Western) gas grill for five hours. For a small stove, that's got to be weeks of cooking gas.

Note that natural gas is heavier than air, explaining the struts underneath.

milkfish 09-01-2006 07:02 AM

Natural gas is methane, not propane, and lighter than air.

glatt 09-01-2006 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaufrec
According to Reader's Digest, "A full-size gas grill (35,000 Btu) will cook for 30 minutes per pound of propane."

According to Wikipedia, propane masses 1.83 kg/m3, or about two pounds per cubic meter.

Say the bag in the picture has between 3 and 8 cubic meters of gas - let's say five. Then it's 10 pounds of gas, or half of a standard 20lb cylinder, or enough to cook on a (large, Western) gas grill for five hours. For a small stove, that's got to be weeks of cooking gas.

Note that natural gas is heavier than air, explaining the struts underneath.

Awesome, jaufrec. Even if this is natural gas, and not propane, that does give a sense of scale to it. Thanks!

onetrack 09-02-2006 07:08 PM

In the original news link, I think you guys missed the more important story .. about the Mexican Sewer diver ..:eek: .. now in THERE, would be a methane supply, that a Chinaman could go ga-ga over .. :greenface :greenface

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...wer-video.html

xoxoxoBruce 09-02-2006 10:52 PM

I surprised how clear that sewage is, shooting film under water.:eek:


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