Me as a gardening enthusiast with a fleet of tractors, I often store about 1 200 barrels of fuel oil in my garage, which is over my cellar in which I keep a few kilotons of ammonium fertilizer. These little explosions do sometimes happen when there is a fire or something.
Well, both that type of fertilizer and fuel are why the human population can survive at levels where we are. Before the haber-bosch process we were scraping the barrel for fertilizer and there is no way we could feed as many people we do today. And that fuel is also the only realistic way we can do all of the logistics required to do that. It's why we have had those big explosions, like Texas City and Beirut. Those two things are both needed.
To be fair about Beirut all of those fertilizers should probably have at least been stored in several different containers instead of one big ass brick.
Do you want to know some ironic trivia? Fritz Haber was a Jew and invented Zyklon A which later got "updated" to make it scentless, and because this process is also used to create energetic conpounds it was improved as much as possible. My o chem Prof once said if you want to earn more money than you can spend improve the haber Bosch process by 1%. Today 1-2% of the whole energy worldwide is used for this process
Yeah, a very interesting and impactful inventor. He did lead the chemical weapons department of Germany in WW1 and the scientific community was quite split on how to accept his nobel prize after the stuff that gas did in WW1.
not sure “this is why we can cram more serfs into the limited available space on earth, destroying it in the process” is such a great argument. also not sure what this info was given in support of. i think these people were making a joke about outlandish quantities of materials for a hobbyist.
i am all for efficiency, and for meeting the needs of the human population. and all processes are going to have unfortunate events at times. nobody is perfect. but explosions aren’t needed, even if industrial scale chemicals are.
I think they were just trying to say that the government can't assume everyone with fertilizer is a terrorist because it's still an absolutely necessary material that's used in huge quantities for legitimate purposes.
Considering blasting agents are basically just fuel and fertilizer mixed together, you need to be very very careful about how you store your collection you've got going on lol.
What are you talking about? They asked about the number, and she provided a wiki link to what a BARREL is. Semantics and pendants is not an indication of intelligence, nor a replacement for a personality, just FYI.
No, the question was "what does '1 200 barrels' mean?"
There was not a distinction between whether it was the number or the unit that was confusing. And their second reply was about the numbering syntax, as well
a gardener can have a few kilotons of fertaliser as a treat. i actualy tried to get it to explode once, much more difficult than all those lists you get put onto would make you to belive. still keep away from fire
Eek. 1,200 barrels of fuel oil and a few kilotons of AN surely has you on some type of list. Even if you're trustworthy, there's got to be lunatics out there who would love to get their hands on that.
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u/EvaTheE 1d ago
Me as a gardening enthusiast with a fleet of tractors, I often store about 1 200 barrels of fuel oil in my garage, which is over my cellar in which I keep a few kilotons of ammonium fertilizer. These little explosions do sometimes happen when there is a fire or something.