[ExI] Fwd: [AR] Planned FAA LOX-Methane Safety Studies?

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> 
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>...There are some practical problems with this.  LOX is easy to get, but LNG is not so simple.  Oxygen boiling out of a storage dewar is a lot less of a problem than natural gas.

>...There are people, not sure if you know them, who have mixed propane and LOX in two-liter bottles. The two are not miscible the way LNG and LOX are, but my understanding is that they mix better if you screw on the cap and let the bottle warm up some.

Keith
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So... how about a can of LOX in a medical cylinder, valve closed, partial bottle of LNG from camping supply (I already have three of those in addition to the two on the front of my camper) put the LNG in a salt water ice bath, connect the two cans with the LNG on bottom and the O2 bottle above so it is driven by both pressure differential and gravity.  We figure out the amounts of each for a nice stochiometric... reaction... arrange for that amount of each to be in each can to start with.  Open the valve, get outta range, cameras running.  Mister Thirty Aught Six after about ten minutes, recreational destruction and shock waves.

Keith I am a lucky man.  I didn't have the money for this kind of fun silliness back when I woulda actually done it, and now that I have the necessary filthy lucre, I am reprehensibly, steadfastly civic minded and responsible, unlikely to create shock waves just for the sake of entertainment and internet fame.

Life is that way often.  Same way with motorcycles.  As I get older, I buy faster and faster bikes, but ride them slower and slower.

Sigh.

spike