is Canada still on fire?
>>74049734
Shouldn't this be a bigger deal?
I think Canada is ashamed and doesn't want the world to see
>>74049734
Yes, forest fires last a pretty long time. It's not a huge deal though, it's stuck at around 200,000 hectares and not growing plus it's in the middle of nowhere.
Usually our big forest fires last right up until winter hits so this isn't unusual.
>>74049840
Ashamed of the fire, or of the sulfur? Because Sulfur does have uses, and being a waste product, they can sell it for basically nothing.
As for the fire, we seem to lose a few towns every four or five years. Last time a river flooded and washed away a few communities, houses down the river and everything.
>>74049734
Can you imagine the fucking smell?
>>74049840
Its not really that big of a deal. Molten Sulfur is shipped out of Ft Mc on the reg and its not like anything can ignite those stock piles. This is not ignoring the serious impact it would have on the environment if something was to happen, like say a bomb.
If we put out the fire, it wins.
>>74049987
Sulfur itself doesn't smell that bad, what you're smelling is actually when it reacts with various things and gives off sulfur dioxide
Once a layer of oxidation is formed on the outside of the pyramid it stops smelling.
>>74049734
The Fort Mac control is "under control" as far as environmental and economic apocalypse goes. No plants exploded and there were no huge chemical explosions either.
Basically, the city got fucked and a lot of forest is continuing to be fucked.
>>74049734
Wikipedia says it is.
>>74049938
>>74049998
>The sulfur
What's cooler is that it's some 4 acres of space and 100ft tall, and supply of elemental sulfur dwarfs demand by something like a hundred times over.
Apparently being incorporated into newer fertilisers though.
>>74049734
They are more like Ziggurats than Pyramids.
>>74051124
At the rate of the worlds sulfur usage they will inevitably become pyramids
If they were to try and actually sell it all at once they would be actually paying other people to buy their sulfur. It's cheaper to store it then it is to sell it.
They're classified as pyramids because for the foreseeable future there will never be a need for that much sulfur.
>>74051337
>inb4 sulfur is the next super fuel
Canada becomes super rich.
>>74051644
Just think, if shitposting could be harnessed as an energy source Canada would lead the world into a bright new age.
>>74051644
Too dirty. It really does have no use unfortunately
SOCl3 used to be a pretty big thing, but it's classified as a UN chemical weapon now. It's been replaced by POCl3. You can use SOCl3 in labs quite easily by filling out the paperwork, but for industrial uses it's basically unheard of these days due to legalities. It is in fact significantly cheaper of course (we have a pyramid of sulfur to prove that)
>>74049734
> waste sulphur
> waste
I'm fairly certain that there's a lot of industrial applications for the stuff.
>>74052704
Until phosphorous is completely regulated by the UN currently sulfur is not feasible.
It's just politics. Both reducing agents can be used as chemical weapons, but only thionyl chloride is classified as a chemical weapon currently.
SOCl3 and POCl3 literally have the same reactivity basically. You could kill an equivalent amount of the population with either chemical, it's not like one is safer for human consumption than the other. It is literally 100% politics and it destroyed the chemical industry.
You can make POCl3 without resorting to white phosphorus currently so it avoids UN laws. That is literally the only reason it is used. It's a more expensive process, we have less phosphorous in the world by a huge fucking margin, and the process to make thionyl chloride is cheaper, more efficient, and can be used interchangeably with phosphorous compounds.
It's a neat situation since most people are completely unaware of that what the UN did years and years ago completely changed the chemical industry.
>>74053173
SOCl2 sorry, kind of drunk at the moment lol
