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

[Keith Henson]

On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 11:05 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
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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.
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> >...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.
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> So... how about a can of LOX in a medical cylinder, valve closed, partial bottle of LNG from camping supply

Not LNG, camping gas is propane.  LNG is about as cold as LOX.

(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.
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> 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.

You can also make money at it, consider Mythbusters.

Did two before I ran out of drive to do such nonsense.  One was a
party for when a well-known friend got his PhD, and the other was when
a bunch of friends poured 200 pounds of propane down a mine shaft and
tossed in a flare.

> 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.

Know the feeling.

Keith

> Sigh.
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