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Bleaching Ourselves to Death
Mises.org ^ | February 28, 2011 | Jeffrey Tucker

Posted on 02/28/2011 1:10:38 PM PST by SeeSharp

San Fransisco’s push for low-flush toilets has created a serious problem. There is not enough water flowing through the system, and so the back up has created a gigantic, city-wide stink. This can be fixed but only by pouring massive, unthinkable amounts of bleach into the sewer system, a prospect that has many people very alarmed. It’s the old story: intervention begets intervention. Perhaps we should think a bit less about “saving” water and start thinking about saving civilization.


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: environmentalism
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To: lmr
Sewers are designed for a flow of 2 feet per second to be self scouring. No water no push, goes septic, it rots, and you live with the results’
21 posted on 02/28/2011 3:46:59 PM PST by Little Bill (Harry Browne is a Poofter.)
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To: SeeSharp

Oh ya doesn’t has to use bleach:

Methyl Ethyl Ketone
Carbon Tetrachloride


22 posted on 02/28/2011 3:55:52 PM PST by texmexis best
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To: Little Bill

Plop plop fizz fizz oh what a relief it is...


23 posted on 02/28/2011 4:17:22 PM PST by Ev Reeman
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To: texmexis best

Oh, yes! Chlorinated hydrocarbons in the sewer! Heh. Actually adding a massive volume of bleach to the sewer system is a very bad idea; bleach reacts with the urea in urine to produce chlorine gas (possibly by way of chloramine-T)- which would then come out of every sewer vent in the city. Actually, it might be a way of cleaning up a lot of vermin....


24 posted on 02/28/2011 4:19:35 PM PST by 45Auto (Big holes are (almost) always better.)
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To: 45Auto

Those chemicals would clean the sewer to like new condition. Pretty much do the same to SF Bay too.


25 posted on 02/28/2011 4:28:23 PM PST by texmexis best
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To: SeeSharp

BWAAA-HAA-HA HAA HAAA HAAAAA!


26 posted on 02/28/2011 7:30:05 PM PST by dangus
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Wow, that is so disgusting! Those environuts ruin everything.
At least most of the people that live there shouldn’t mind the smell they consider an aphrodisiac ;)


27 posted on 02/28/2011 9:42:12 PM PST by Trillian
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