mondoman712@lemmy.ml to Fuck Cars@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoThere's 3000 cars on fire in the North Sealemmy.mlimagemessage-square106fedilinkarrow-up1383arrow-down143file-text
arrow-up1340arrow-down1imageThere's 3000 cars on fire in the North Sealemmy.mlmondoman712@lemmy.ml to Fuck Cars@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square106fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCegorach@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·1 year agothat’s the fun thing - unless you remove every last drop, emptying the gas tank makes it MORE dangerous, not less. liquid gas in enclosed containers is actually pretty harmless. But leaking fluids mixtures of gas and air are explosive.
minus-squarekrolden@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoIf they’re brand new cars they shouldn’t have gas in them yet. All of the final touches are done after they unload them at port.
minus-squareCegorach@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down3·1 year agohow do you think those cars were loaded into the ship? by crane?
minus-squareCegorach@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoSo, how would you do that on a ship built to be filled by two ramps?
minus-squarekrolden@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoYou think they drove them all onto the ship?
minus-squarekim_harding ✅@mastodon.scotlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year ago@krolden @DAT I have seen them being driven onto the ship.
minus-squarejscummy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoRoll on/Roll off ships are a thing
minus-squareCegorach@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoand look surprisingly similar to the one in those articles :D
minus-squareCegorach@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoon a ship of that type? yes, I do.
that’s the fun thing - unless you remove every last drop, emptying the gas tank makes it MORE dangerous, not less.
liquid gas in enclosed containers is actually pretty harmless. But leaking fluids mixtures of gas and air are explosive.
If they’re brand new cars they shouldn’t have gas in them yet. All of the final touches are done after they unload them at port.
how do you think those cars were loaded into the ship? by crane?
Duh?
So, how would you do that on a ship built to be filled by two ramps?
You think they drove them all onto the ship?
@krolden @DAT I have seen them being driven onto the ship.
Roll on/Roll off ships are a thing
and look surprisingly similar to the one in those articles :D
on a ship of that type? yes, I do.