In article , Tim Watts
wrote:
On Friday 22 March 2013 13:39 Jethro_uk wrote in uk.d-i-y:

On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:50:57 +0000, Tim+ wrote:

Andrew Gabriel wrote:
Front page of Friday's Times apparently says we have only 2 days
stock of Gas at the moment, versus the 15 days we normally have...

And we're just heading into several more days of snow across the
country.


I haven't seen a gasometer/gas holder with any significant stored gas
for ages. Do they get used at all these days or just for "bare
minimum" storage?

Tim

I thought they were designed more to keep the grid at a constant
pressure ? They were busy dismantling them in the 90s - Both South
Harrow and Southall went - they used to have massive letters painted on
them, pointing to Northolt and Heathrow airports respectively.

To be honest, given the bomb-happy nature of every disgruntled citizen
nowadays, I'm rather glad there isn't a huge store of flammable gas[1]
in densely populated areas.

[1]I vaguely recall it would be unlikely to "explode" as we know it.

I thought most gas storage was done by pressurising the UK main "grid"
gas lines (not the street supply obviously).

There are underground "holes" which are used for storage. One near here
had the gas taken out of it a few years ago, now they want to fill it again
as "storage".

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