• Tar_Alcaran
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    430 days ago

    Decent LNG tanks seems to have a boil off of about 0.05% of max volume per day. So after some 3 years (1000 days), your tank would be half empty. But I’d wager the rates are a lot higher in ships, since they have some weight and space restrictions you don’t get on land.

    Use some to power the engines, put the rest through a recondenser? There’s probably a financial optimum there somewhere.

    • @supercriticalcheese
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      229 days ago

      Yes but they can get quite close to that. And voyages don’t last that long.

      • Tar_Alcaran
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        229 days ago

        That’s a fair point. Imagine the cost just having a whole ass ship shitting there, doing literally nothing.

        • @supercriticalcheese
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          129 days ago

          That would be wasting money, ships are expensive to charter.

          Whoever operates them have every interest to have them moving about.