On: Why's a Big Red Tanker Drifting Near Boston?

[Scoundreller]

Ships capacities are 138k-150k m^3.

Multiply by 35 to get cubic feet, and we get about 5m cubic feet per ship, or 1% of a day’s demand if my math is correct.

[newnewpdro → Scoundreller]

"It takes up about 1/600th the volume of natural gas in the gaseous state" [1]

So 600% by your calculation; 6 days?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefied_natural_gas

edit: darn singlow beat me to it :)

[singlow → Scoundreller]

Haven't checked the math but are you accounting for Liquid->Gas expansion?

[singlow → singlow]

If the figures for Boston's consumption are for gaseous methane and LNG expands 600x then you would have ~6 days supply.