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Post by Warkitty on Dec 29, 2009 10:17:41 GMT -5
No one knows more about gas than Joedog (or so I hear) but I found this rather amusing. I'm on hold with Chattanooga Natural Gas right now and just heard the recording tell me "Natural gas is colorless and odorless, however if think you smell it you should leave the area and call us immediately."
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Post by rstewart on Dec 29, 2009 10:51:15 GMT -5
Isn't there something added to Natural Gas to give it a smell as a safety precaution?
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Post by Bob on Dec 29, 2009 11:02:48 GMT -5
Isn't there something added to Natural Gas to give it a smell as a safety precaution? yes, I worked for Chattanooga gas the last ten years they were Chattanooga gas. (They are Atlanta Gas and have been for a long time) The odor is added at the pumping stations. The guys who add the odor have to go home and shower after to prevent false gas leak calls. |
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Post by Warkitty on Dec 29, 2009 11:06:18 GMT -5
Maybe so, but it still amused me.
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Post by rstewart on Dec 29, 2009 11:09:18 GMT -5
I know the feeling. My kids say they don't like the taste of water. I tell them it's an odorless, colorless, TASTELESS liquid. It does no good. They still bitch about it.
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Dec 29, 2009 12:18:49 GMT -5
"My kids say they don't like the taste of water."
A little tea will fix that problem.
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Post by rstewart on Dec 29, 2009 12:34:45 GMT -5
Son loves tea, daughter hates it. I know she's unAmerican.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2009 14:01:42 GMT -5
You're right, WK. The message is goofy. It makes one wonder what brainiac put it together. Here's an excerpt from the interesting Wiki article on natural gas. "In any form, a minute amount of odorant such as t-butyl mercaptan, with a rotting-cabbage-like smell, is added to the otherwise colorless and almost odorless gas, so that leaks can be detected before a fire or explosion occurs. Sometimes a related compound, thiophane is used, with a rotten-egg smell. Adding odorant to natural gas began in the United States after the 1937 New London School explosion. The buildup of gas in the school went unnoticed, killing three hundred students and faculty when it ignited." I believe I can now be considered a natural resource. |
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Post by joedog on Dec 29, 2009 15:58:00 GMT -5
I believe I can now be considered a natural resource. I have had to alert the EPA a few times for loss of a natural resource. |
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Dec 29, 2009 18:18:53 GMT -5
So, you're full of beans?
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Post by joedog on Dec 29, 2009 20:41:51 GMT -5
Thats not what the wife calls it, but yea.. thats its beans.
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Post by cadillacdude1975 on Dec 29, 2009 23:48:27 GMT -5
my gas has its own unique smell.
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Post by Tsavodiner on Dec 30, 2009 4:56:24 GMT -5
Isn't there something added to Natural Gas to give it a smell as a safety precaution? methyl mercaptan |
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Post by NewsShooter on Dec 30, 2009 8:24:57 GMT -5
my gas has its own unique smell. eau de chili? |
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Post by goomba on Dec 30, 2009 9:04:39 GMT -5
smells like rotten eggs....
oh wait.....
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Post by mikeydokey on Jan 1, 2010 1:13:12 GMT -5
My natural gas has no odor.
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