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"Carbon Dioxide/Monoxide Explosion" in Baltimore

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Steamhead
Steamhead Member Posts: 18,428
edited March 9 in Carbon Monoxide Awareness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joiKIYykjNw

Conflicting info from different news sources.

"Under Investigation"…………….

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  • GGross
    GGross Member Posts: 1,853

    unfortunately these types of accidents often will have reporting inaccuracies, the source is often ill informed, and the journalist is not an expert in the field either. For the curious the best you can hope for is that a CSB investigation is warranted. they publish very in depth reports and often will publish the report as an easily digestible youtube video.

    Robert_H
  • pecmsg
    pecmsg Member Posts: 7,029
    edited March 9

    CO2 tanks can run as high as 2,500#’s. could be something is simple as a fitting valve breaking

  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 12,086

    That's what you get for taking the Cocaine out of Coca Cola

    Edward Young Retired

    After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?

    Robert_Hold_diy_guy
  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 20,103

    Some think CO & C)2 are the same thing.

    Mad Dog_2
  • mattmia2
    mattmia2 Member Posts: 16,545

    is this like the one where some tech claimed he was a hero for keeping a couple pounds of freon from escaping in to a large grocery store?

  • Robert_H
    Robert_H Member Posts: 302
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1891127#Comment_1891127

    clearly you have spent a lot of time in dark spaces.

    EdTheHeaterMan
  • ScottSecor
    ScottSecor Member Posts: 1,033

    I think @EdTheHeaterMan was referring to the idea that Coca Cola once had a miniscule amount of cocaine in the product. According to my long deceased grandfather, it had a "kick" to it. I suppose today they use caffeine instead.

    Mad Dog_2
  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 12,086
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1891178#Comment_1891178

    I guess this is how out parents were able to walk 7 miles to school, every day, in the snow, up hill, in both directions.

    Edward Young Retired

    After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?

    Larry Weingarten
  • ChrisJ
    ChrisJ Member Posts: 17,320
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1891136#Comment_1891136

    One just has more oxygen.

    And then there's CO3.

    Single pipe 392sqft system with an EG-40 rated for 325sqft and it's silent and balanced at all times.

  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 12,086

    CO₃ Molecule is very unstable and quickly reacts to form other compounds.

    Kind of like @ChrisJ very unstable.🤣🤣🤣

    Edward Young Retired

    After you make that expensive repair and you still have the same problem, What will you check next?

    ChrisJ
  • pecmsg
    pecmsg Member Posts: 7,029
    https://forum.heatinghelp.com/discussion/comment/1891182#Comment_1891182

    and barefooted

    EdTheHeaterMan

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