Back in the mid to late 19th century refineries had a waste product known to us as gasoline. They would usually dump it in a river.
Granted, it *probably* wasn't all that much gasoline, comparatively, but it would be nice to have it back.
More recently oil companies burned natural gas, especially on deep sea rigs, because it was too expensive to bring it ashore. I hope they no longer do that, either.
I was visiting Cleveland once and saw a Great Lakes bulk carrier sailing upstream on the Cuyahoga. There are some very tight turns there and it made for an impressive sight.
I worked my way through college as a custodian. Before we got backpack vacs, we had to push around a commercial upright. Backpack vacs are so much easier to use and more versatile - you can vacuum curtains, for instance, which is a LOT harder with an upright with no hose/wand.
In the grand scheme of things, Travis, you may be correct. However, practically speaking many unique species were lost, the native cultures were destroyed, livelihoods lost, the health of people in the area is a lot worse than it was… It sure seems like an ecological disaster to me to turn a giant lake into a desert.
Weapon Masters on Military Channel is good, too. If you haven't seen it, it has a British dude who is a weapons historian and an American dude who is a crazy artist/maker. British dude shows some weapon and how it was made and used, American dude tries to update/improve it, then they square off to see which is the best.
I think this isn't from napalm. The Russians developed thermobaric weapons for use against caves and the like. They are different from napalm and are perhaps even more nasty.
The term thermobaric is derived from the Greek words for “heat” and “pressure”: thermobarikos (????????????), from thermos (??????), hot + baros (?????), weight, pressure + suffix -ikos (-????), suffix -ic.
A thermobaric weapon (or solid fuel-air explosive) uses the gaseous products (H2, H2O, CO and CO2) of an initial explosion for an afterburning of reactive solids. Because their reaction with atmospheric oxygen only produces solid oxides the blast wave is primarily generated by heat of combustion ("thermobaric") instead of expanding explosion gases. This makes thermobaric explosives more effective in oxygen deficient environments such as tunnels, caves or underground bunkers.
Rather than providing protection as they would from conventional explosive ammunition, structure interior walls, particularly cement or other hard surfaces, magnify and channel the shockwaves created by a thermobaric detonation. The stronger the walls, the higher the pressure’s reflective effect. The turbulent mixing of fuel with ambient oxygen is induced by the presence of walls through enhanced mixing from three different types of instabilities as well as from enhanced chemistry from temperature and pressure velocity gradient in differing fuels,creating a piston type afterburn reaction in enclosed structures.
Maybe that's what happened to the Joker: he meddled in cutlery man was never meant to try.
That's why I hate those lazy babies.
And 8000 pounds?!? Could it be the writer of the article was confused and it was 8000 Pounds Sterling's worth?
Granted, it *probably* wasn't all that much gasoline, comparatively, but it would be nice to have it back.
More recently oil companies burned natural gas, especially on deep sea rigs, because it was too expensive to bring it ashore. I hope they no longer do that, either.
I was visiting Cleveland once and saw a Great Lakes bulk carrier sailing upstream on the Cuyahoga. There are some very tight turns there and it made for an impressive sight.
And no, I don't want to hear about how good BSG is.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermobaric_weapon
The term thermobaric is derived from the Greek words for “heat” and “pressure”: thermobarikos (????????????), from thermos (??????), hot + baros (?????), weight, pressure + suffix -ikos (-????), suffix -ic.
A thermobaric weapon (or solid fuel-air explosive) uses the gaseous products (H2, H2O, CO and CO2) of an initial explosion for an afterburning of reactive solids. Because their reaction with atmospheric oxygen only produces solid oxides the blast wave is primarily generated by heat of combustion ("thermobaric") instead of expanding explosion gases. This makes thermobaric explosives more effective in oxygen deficient environments such as tunnels, caves or underground bunkers.
Rather than providing protection as they would from conventional explosive ammunition, structure interior walls, particularly cement or other hard surfaces, magnify and channel the shockwaves created by a thermobaric detonation. The stronger the walls, the higher the pressure’s reflective effect. The turbulent mixing of fuel with ambient oxygen is induced by the presence of walls through enhanced mixing from three different types of instabilities as well as from enhanced chemistry from temperature and pressure velocity gradient in differing fuels,creating a piston type afterburn reaction in enclosed structures.