Posted on 01/31/2023 8:31:11 AM PST by george76
They’re trying to breed mutant ice rats to feed the starving polar bears.
uh oh... that carbon footprint ain’t gonna fly with the peta bunch.
Dry ice doesn’t melt. It sublimes directly from frozen CO2 to gaseous CO2 skipping the liquid step.
Silly reporter.
“Silly reporter.”
More like “science illiterate” reporter. I remember fooling around with dry ice in junior high science class & now do similar with my elementary-school granddaughters, including discussing sublimation.
Too bad Mayor Adams isn’t interested in reducing the DemoncRAT population, he’s lock up the criminals.
Local maintenance crews are dumping dry ice in the pesky rodents’ burrows in the trendy Lower Manhattan neighborhood so that when it melts, it leaves behind carbon dioxide, which suffocates them. …Dry ice does not melt; it sublimates, i.e. turns from solid into gas while bypassing the liquid phase. FTR, liquid CO2 can only exist at a minimum pressure of 5.1 atmospheres.
Many moons ago, I was lypholysing stuff so used dry ice + ethanol in a bath to get a real fast freeze then to maintain the freeze. It would turn the ethanol into a syrup viscosity. Fun times! Plain language of this is extreme freeze drying under vacuum.
Dry ice + water is a blast at Halloween to make a “smokey” witches cauldron.
They are simply “sequestering” CO2 gas in rodent holes. It is perfectly acceptable and environmentally sound to pump CO2 into the ground. Just ask John Kerry. Now maybe they could get creative and sequester some of that stuff somewhere else where it would do some good?
Many moons ago, I was lypholysing stuff so used dry ice + ethanol in a bath to get a real fast freeze then to maintain the freeze. It would turn the ethanol into a syrup viscosity. Fun times! Plain language of this is extreme freeze drying under vacuum.
Dry ice + water is a blast at Halloween to make a “smokey” witches cauldron.
Many moons ago, I was lypholysing stuff so used dry ice + ethanol in a bath to get a real fast freeze then to maintain the freeze. It would turn the ethanol into a syrup viscosity. Fun times! Plain language of this is extreme freeze drying under vacuum.
Dry ice + water is a blast at Halloween to make a “smokey” witches cauldron.
When I saw Billy Joel live in the 1970s, he used the line, “I’ve seen the rats lie down on Broadway” in one of the verses.
Dry ice does not “melt”, it “sublimates”.
Thank you. The idiots that write this crap are....well....idiots.
Yes, a friend at work years ago used Juicy Fruit gum to get rid of groundhogs eating up his garden.
Feds put freeze on Boston's rat-killing experiment https://www.bostonglobe.com › 2016/12/28 › story The EPA is temporarily shutting down Boston's program for killing rats with dry ice. Federal officials have put a freeze on Boston's new .
because dry ice was not registered for use as rat control, and therefore violated the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), it didn’t take long for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — which is responsible for its enforcement — to put a stop to the practice. At the end of June, however, the EPA granted Bell Laboratories federal registration for a product containing dry ice. Once the product is registered in their states, PMPs may use this newly approved option. - https://www.mypmp.net/2017/08/23/epa-clarifies-use-of-dry-ice-on-rats/
Get scissor traps for moles. Only way to get rid of them is to kill them. Never used it but had a neighbor who swore by the poison worms, Talpirid but its expensive. He said the cheap ones didn’t work but these did. I had about 10 scissor traps and would kill dozens of them each year.
Also works for eliminating in ground Yellow Jacket nests.
I’ve used the Tomkat poison worms for moles and they work great. I cut em in half because of the expense, still work great. Just don’t smash the tunnels, poke a hole, drop half a worm(use paper towel, don’t touch), lightly cover back hole and they are usually gone first attempt. Place half a worm about every 5 feet in tunnel.
Yes but gasoline in way more fun for those little bastards.
Not where I live. We had a “controlled” burn north of us that ate 350,000 acres.
You don’t have to light it, the fumes will get em. But here in Ohio we drop a match just to be sure and have a laugh. Sometime the ground will cave in real good if the nest is big enough. When you run a mower over those bastards you’ll want them dead. You can also just put a bowl over the entry hole but that’s no fun.
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