Comments by "deezel_fairy" (@deezelfairy) on "Plainly Difficult" channel.

  1. Literally turning your steering wheel into a claymore mine on impact - unbelievable not a single engineer/chemist didn't foresee this. Ammonium nitrate is probably the most well understood explosive in use today due to the shear volumes of it that are used globally.
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  2. I'd say the probability your ex wife got cancer from your use of that weed killer is probably extremely low to nil - can't see how you can be 1000% sure it was your fault,it's unrealistic self-blame really. These weed killers would have been used all over the USA in the time period they were in production, it's not like everybody who used them got cancer. If you were spraying it around everyday for 5 years with no care like a goof than hey, maybe, but it normally takes a prolonged period of low exposure or very high levels of acute exposure. A lot of Vietnam era soldiers got cancer but its not like they used it once in a tiny sprayer on a few daisy's, they were spraying it out of the equivalent of water cannon on PBR boats by the 50 gallon barrel full, probably for weeks at a time - big difference! And SOME of them got cancer, not all, probably not even most! There's a million different things that could have caused you ex wife's cancer, including sheer bad luck.
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  3. I'm a forklift mechanic and your bosses are always trying to get you to make semi-dangerous or industry prohibited repairs/modifications. They also are very good at creative interpretation of safety legislation when it suits. You've just got to learn to stand firm and say NO! It's your name on the job sheet at the end of the day, not your bosses. Either your boss backs down and relents to doing it the right way or they pull you off the job and get some other schlub to do it - more fool them but I can only be responsible for my actions, not others. I've never been fired or penalised or discriminated for it - sure your boss gets pissy for a few days, but I'm a big boy at the end of the day so whatever.
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  4. This had me curious as well - low pressure seems a very inefficient way to 'transport' the gas on a distribution level - you're going to need much larger mains to transport the same volume. The lack of redundancy for pressure regulation is also baffling. Here in the UK it's high(ish) pressure mains with every meter having an internal pressure regulator - at least if a regulator fails it only affects one property!
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  5. The power plant your referring too at the end of the video is Veolia Selchp off of Surrey Canal Road. The area was not built up around it - that whole area (Bermondsey) was fully built up for a good hundred years before they built that waste to energy incinerator. I did some subcontractor maintenance work there for a number of years. By the way, about all that comes out those smoke stacks is CO2 and steam - the nasty byproduct is the flyash that has to go off for landfill. The bottom ash (majority of the ash) is recycled into a form of aggregate.
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  6. ​ @RT-qd8yl This is a valid point, a big leak into a confined space is far safer than a small leak - fuel gases such as natural gas and propane have quite narrow flammability ranges (5-15% for natural gas).
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  7. Have to give them their due for that. However like any corporation they don't really care about safety, they care about lawsuits.
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  8. The more I see of these criticality accidents I think as a victim you'd be far better off staying put and getting the biggest dose you can. Better to die horrifically in hours/days than horrifically in weeks/months.
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