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Ammonium perchlorate drum…. and strontium chloride…
DIY rocket propellant.
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I wrote a perspective on what’s NeXT for BusinessWeek. We’ll see if it comes out. While Jobs is off topic here, this would be the forum on my thread for now. The thought did occur to me that any non-Jobs post would seem odd on a day like this. So I decided to work off some of my rocket backlog. =)
And strangely, a few hours ago, I suggested Jobs for the Tesla board. He would have loved that company too I believe.
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DOT and ATF approved transport vehicles no doubt.
At least get some more placards in the photos: http://www.myhazmatplacards.com/?engine=msnadcenter&keyword=...
I had no idea these events had grown so big. Maybe some certified ATFE / DOT dual party material transport vehicles would be nice to have for making everyone happy. That is a suggestion from the realms of the warbird / experimental milieu vis-a-vis the FAA. -
@Niels Heidenreich http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7pRtgisV9s&feature=related PEPCON: HDPE plastic drums were used for additional storage and placed on campus parking lots. The HDPE plastic acted as a fuel and the ammonium perchlorate as an oxidizer. An estimated 4000 tons of the finished product were stored at the facility at the time of the disaster
I guess they did not read this article huh?
"Further investigation into the event found that the destructive energy from the larger explosion was roughly equivalent to 1,000 tons of TNT, or one kiloton. It caused seismograph needles to dance as far away as Colorado, where the sensitive equipment measured the distant tremor as a 3.5 on the Richter scale.
PEPCON lawyers responded quickly, attempting pin the blame on Southwest Gas company. The lawyers claimed that the natural gas fire occurred first, subsequently causing the ammonium perchlorate explosions. Three days after the disaster, one of these attorneys claimed, “Nothing ignites ammonium perchlorate. It does not burn. It is not flammable.” Though the compound was not considered to be an extreme explosive threat before the PEPCON disaster, chemists pointed out that the attorney’s grasp of chemistry must be as flimsy as his grasp of ethics. They described the chemical as “unstable and highly flammable.”"
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