That was last night and the video below was from Sunday night. Very little MSM reporting on either event that I can find. When the media is silent it means they don't want the masses to see something.
What really piqued my curiosity is the fire dept was already on scene pre-event. That sounds very much like a planned op was happening and in case the explosion got out of hand they had the FD on scene. Makes sense for an op in or underneath a highly populated area. Of course I'm just spit balling here on what little info is out there.
While CO is a byproduct of methane oxidation, CO itself is still flammable. It can be further oxidized to CO2 (2CO + O2 --> 2 CO2).
That doesn't mean I think this is a legit reason to explain the explosion. Why would there be some large contained concentration of CO somewhere? What sparked the explosion?
I think it is much more likely that it was an implausible excuse for underground habbenings in D.C.
You are correct on both counts. I stand corrected.
For there to be a perfect oxygen/fuel mixture is weird as hell.
Reading the MSDS it says you need a window of 10% to 70% limit saturation for it to become combustible. So at least 10% of the atmosphere of those pipes consisted of Carbon Monoxide. You'd think they would have measures in place to stop this sort of thing.
Auto-ignition temperature
Flash point
607°C (1124.6°F)
MSDS says you need to get it pretty damn hot for spontaneous combustion. That's a lot of pressure to get to that temperature. That means there had to be a spark.
One "eye-witness" said she first thought it was a circuit breaker because of electrical issues. EMP before the shockwave from deep tactical nuke, maybe?
That was last night and the video below was from Sunday night. Very little MSM reporting on either event that I can find. When the media is silent it means they don't want the masses to see something.
https://files.catbox.moe/n61231.mp4
Never heard of this happening before. More of the wierd.
What really piqued my curiosity is the fire dept was already on scene pre-event. That sounds very much like a planned op was happening and in case the explosion got out of hand they had the FD on scene. Makes sense for an op in or underneath a highly populated area. Of course I'm just spit balling here on what little info is out there.
Well it's something. Not like any real journalists will be allowed to ask ?s.
Another training accident.
A failed FF?
Carbon Monoxide isn't explosive. It is a by-product of combustion.
You'd have a better time burning ash.
Why the hell would there be flames?
I've never seen anything like this. It is really suspicious.
CO is very flammable in the right concentration. This whole manhole incident is overblown. Typical FD response for an underground vault fire.
While CO is a byproduct of methane oxidation, CO itself is still flammable. It can be further oxidized to CO2 (2CO + O2 --> 2 CO2).
That doesn't mean I think this is a legit reason to explain the explosion. Why would there be some large contained concentration of CO somewhere? What sparked the explosion?
I think it is much more likely that it was an implausible excuse for underground habbenings in D.C.
You are correct on both counts. I stand corrected.
For there to be a perfect oxygen/fuel mixture is weird as hell.
Reading the MSDS it says you need a window of 10% to 70% limit saturation for it to become combustible. So at least 10% of the atmosphere of those pipes consisted of Carbon Monoxide. You'd think they would have measures in place to stop this sort of thing.
I doubt that this is normal.
Auto-ignition temperature Flash point 607°C (1124.6°F)
MSDS says you need to get it pretty damn hot for spontaneous combustion. That's a lot of pressure to get to that temperature. That means there had to be a spark.
But CO isn’t explosive? This is what journalism has come to, linking tweets, no follow-up questions. Either that, or crickets.
It happens from occasionally, but the timing is unlikely.
Specially after an army engineer who specializes in "water moving and mitigation" was called into DC a few days ago.
Boom x3 ?
One "eye-witness" said she first thought it was a circuit breaker because of electrical issues. EMP before the shockwave from deep tactical nuke, maybe?
I think the circuit breaker story was from new York, just happened at around the same time caused confusion