FUEL'S FUTURE

摘要

THE MOMENT of maximum danger came suddenly on the evening of January 19. The scene was the Algerian port of Skikda, where processing plants take natural gas pumped from the Sahara and cool it under enormous pressure to 162 degrees below zero Celsius.At that temperature the gas turns into a liquid that can be shipped all over the world in a new breed of refrigerated supertankers.