liquefaction

Much of the island is on bad liquefaction zones, but there are nice parts that aren't.

The catch of treasure island is that in an earthquake, it is at very high risk of liquefaction.

Processing corn to make ethanol requires substantial amounts of water for the grinding, liquefaction, fermentation, separation and drying procedures.

Transport of the gas would itself require either some sort of pipelines, or gas liquefaction and transport via rail.

The price of LNG liquefaction plants is huge and you want them on the sea so you need pipelines too.

If you look at topographic or seismic maps of SF, you'll see that much (most?) is built on areas of liquefaction.

But there are plenty of areas of SF that don't have imminent liquefaction risk.

Additionally, SF turns out to have been built largely (predominantly?) on landfill and liquefaction.

One of the biggest reasons I have avoided moving to SF is because of earthquake liquefaction dangers.

Would I buy a house (if I can afford one, that is) in a liquefaction area?

Therefore, they can replace their current supply with US production at a lower cost (even after the relatively high cost of liquefaction and transport).

It's built entirely on landfill and suffers from terrible liquefaction.

One interesting thing is that they then envisioned this to happen in phases: a "type I" partially reusable vehicle (with expendable fuel tanks and maybe expendable boosters), then a type II fully-reusable rocket-propelled vehicle (probably two winged stages which both fly back), and finally a type III air-breathing vehicle (Skylon-style air liquefaction was talked about already then).