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Methane’s Critical Temperature is -87.4°C

http://encyclopedia.airliquide.com/Encyclopedia.asp?GasID=41

At temperatures above a molecule’s critical temperature, liquid phase cannot be achieved.

http://www.chem.purdue.edu/gchelp/gloss/crittemp.html

http://www.chem.purdue.edu/gchelp/liquids/critical.html

You can continue to add pressure and reduce the volume, but you will not form a liquid, just a really dense gas. Then you need to figure a way to deal with the pressure.

LNG is contained in heavily insulated vessels, at atmospheric temperatures. The LNG must be below -259°F at atmospheric pressures to remain liquid.

http://www.lngfacts.org/About-LNG/Overview.asp

[Publius6961]

LNG is contained in heavily insulated vessels, at atmospheric temperatures. The LNG must be below -259°F at atmospheric pressures to remain liquid.

The more I learn about oil, the more certain I am of the ignorance and incompetence of our so-called "leaders."

Natural gas is so plentiful, it is actually still flared in many places around the world (better than the alternative, releasing methane to the atmosphere.) Gas has less useful energy, but can be used efficiently in many areas that presently use oil, releasing gasoline-producing oil for uses that can't work efficiently (yet) with other fuels.

That makes the Keystone pipeline so critical. Canadian gas can be used for winter heating, for instance with dramatically fewer "environmental concerns" than coal.

Fortunately (for the US,) it is economically astronomically silly to ship the stuff around the world in refrigerated ships, but proven economically to ship it through pipelines at low pressure. That's why Canada can't ship it "worlwide" to Japan or anywhere else. It is an environmental marriage made in heaven to have Canadian gas next door.

But the moron social engineers are too stupid to realize it.

We need that Keystone pipeline on line ASAP, no matter what else happens.

The ecolofreaks will have coronaries all over the place if Canada is forced to flare all the gas they have that they can't use and can't ship, while producing oil, and can't afford to compress and return it to the bowels of the earth.