Posted on 07/29/2016 11:47:45 AM PDT by PROCON
It was just as hot in Philly this week. It’s amazing the Wells Fargo Center didn’t go up in flames.
These folks obviously know nothing about horse manure.
Guess what? If you pile a lot of wet hay, it will do the same thing. Amazing.
Do you know that for a fact? I realize that anaerobic decomposition produces methane - but assume that it would immediately dissipate (it's lighter than air). A certain high concentration of methane would be needed for ignition. Only in an enclosed area or gas-tight container would that be possible.
As I said: I'm familiar with spontaneous combustion - but that is something other than the spark-ignition of methane - which I think would, in actual practice, be difficult to achieve.
Regards,
Methane from “ripening” manure ... it’s not only an agricultural phenomenon but fuels most of the hot air in the halls of Congress.
No, it wasn't BS - it was HS.
Regards,
***Has nil to do with alleged anthropogenic global warming.***
The coal at our local power plant catches fire by itself all the time.
Oh, that is GOOD! The afflicted girls...yes, that is what those Dems are like! Lol!
I live in Florida. It is hot here. As hot as it is in upstate NY for a much longer period.
Ocala Florida is the horse capital of the world. According to this article Ocala should be a molten ball of flames.
Prickly Pete is having prickly heat.
DeBlasio's on fire?
Depends on how you look at it. Around here Manure means your old lady just caught you with a newer younger version of herself and you are in deep doo-doo. And when she screams you Son... it doesn’t mean she is kidding you..
Co-STAN-za!
Very appropriate, since NYers think they’re hot shit. :)
... Which reminds me of the old joke about the farmer’s daughter who brought her beau home to meet her parents. When her father brought up the topic of manure, she complained to her mother, “Can’t you get him to say ‘Fertilizer’?”. To which, mother replied, “It took me twenty years to get him to say ‘manure’.”
Would either of you be interested in a used alarm clock?
Oddly enough, NYC's magnificently robust water supply system was built in the 19th Century to accommodate street cleaning. Every morning fire hydrants where opened to assist street sweepers in brushing all the horse manure into the storm sewers and out into the East and Hudson rivers, which washed it out to sea. Even the Twentieth Century's worst politicians couldn't destroy it.
My archery club had an outdoor archery range, and one day, after a heavy rain, the hay bales we were using as target backstops burst into flames from spontaneous combustion.
Weirdest thing ya ever saw...
Are they sure that wasn’t at the DNC convention? There was a lot of manure there and hot air.
(2005) A 2,000-ton mountain of cow manure continues to burn into third month.
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/01/30/Worldandnation/Massive_manure_fire_k.shtml
I’ve personally seen evidence of combustion in piles of peppertree leaves that were raked into a 4ft pile and left over the winter. The leaves in the center bottom turned whitish grey like wood ash and fell apart into real ash when pitchforked. People are always advised to turn their compost piles to reduce decomposition heat.
Over 50 years ago a school mates house was burned down because of a fire caused by green hay.
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