Comments on: Sewer Ice https://www.isegoria.net/2008/05/sewer-ice/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:55:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: T. Beholder https://www.isegoria.net/2008/05/sewer-ice/comment-page-1/#comment-3712259 T. Beholder Wed, 18 Sep 2024 19:29:12 +0000 http://isegoria.net/isegoria/?p=2287#comment-3712259 In late 1990s there were serious publications about possibilities of slurping methane layer with little more than a ship dropping a wide hose, etc.

A trickier question is when this can be useful for storage in the rest of infrastructure. Saturated methane ice takes about 2× as much volume as LNG, but it can be kept at atmospheric pressure or so, as long as the ice does not melt.

Obviously, failures are much less catastrophic for a freezer full of ice cubes than for a high-pressure gas holder, too.

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