Posted on 04/12/2023 8:34:05 AM PDT by bitt
Stacked and dried cow poop explodes. Don’t think anyone snuck in 5k lbs of anfo.
In GE we were told of a GE town that blew up/disappeared following a literal mountain of dried cow poop detonating. It was just after WWI. The owner was told he had to get rid of the cow poop mountain. It was so hardened he decided to use dynamite to break it up. Or that’s what he supposedly told the mining store clerk cause everyone in that town got blown up. Don’t know if it’s true or not but that’s what we were told.
The cause reported on local media as possibly due to methane gas and something to do with equipment the involving manure and water.
Awfully big explosion and wasn’t the place vented?
Propane and/or natural gas for heating/hot water/sterilization. Plus there is a whole yard full of methane producing waste.
I think if the level of methane in that main barn was that high, the cows would have been dropping dead before the explosion happened.
Wheres the nearest underground gas main?
Yet another food production facility destroyed.
I met a man who was planning to invest $10 million to build a huge dairy farm (about 12K head, as I recall). Due to EPA and state regulations, he was also building a huge "digester" for all the cow waste, to to turn it into fertilizer. Part of the plan also would collect all the methane from that, and use it to power the whole operation.
I would guess such a massive dairy as this one in Texas probaly also
What in the hell?
Yeah, that’s it -methane. Methane replaces fuel oil in the ANFO as the initiator. ANFG. A lack of ventilation and an ignition source and the ammonia-nitrate-methane detonates.
EPA and Texas probably would not allow them to vent all that methane
I suspect they were collecting it - and using it to power the operation
Its “natural gas” after all!
I would assume natural gas heaters.
So they’re still trying to destroy our food supply. I guess it wasn’t enough to annihilate massive numbers of chickens.
18,000 dairy cows? That’s a lot of methane.
The rafters of the yuge building might have been built up with years of dry dusty Texas cow poop. Major SNAFU causes ignition. Not quite an explosion but it went up in a flash. Dust explodes with low humidity and the right conditions also.
18,000 cows out out a lot of methane. Maybe they were collecting it for sale.
could it be methane accumulation? I don’t know, just wondering
yes. i’ve read a lot about that exact process. that would decrease explosion risk, right? because the methane would be very efficiently burned by the digester?
The dairy farms up here liquify the crap and then a pumper pays the farmer to pump out and haul away the liquified cow crap.
The pumper is then paid by another farmer to spread the liquid crap on their fields for fertilizer.
The dairy farmers call it Liquid Gold.
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