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not that big a deal, but you do have to register and have basic security, ammonium nitrate is by todays standards just one step up from black powder, and if it'
by metalman 1y ago
not that big a deal, but you do have to register and have basic security, ammonium nitrate is by todays standards just one step up from black powder, and if it's a proper company with mechanical and chemical engineers signing off then it's literaly just paper work.All in all industrial type experimenting involves avoiding exuberant exothermic reactions and dramatic kinetic events, with or without an electrical component, just about everyone involved has a story, and there are plenty of injuries and fatalities.
One of the hard parts of bootstraping any industrial process is having people who have the knowledge and experience to train people in how to do things and not get hurt, it's not "saftey" as much as survival skills.
- HeyLaughingBoy 1y ago> ammonium nitrate is by todays standards just one step up from black powder I thought that was potassium nitrate. Which I bought a bottle of on Amazon when I was curing a ham.
- ridgeguy 1y agoDidn't know about the use for meat curing. I've routinely bought KNO3 for stump removal.
- HeyLaughingBoy 1y agohmmm. I have lots of stumps, and didn't use that much from the bottle. I think there's some old diesel in a can somewhere...
- Loughla 1y agoUse aluminum powder instead. Is less messy and easier to set off. And it's more fun because it's more of a pop than a push.
- ahazred8ta 1y agoAs Kevin Kelly said about tribal lore: "In many cases the only way to do an experiment safely is to find a more experienced person to help. This is not book-learning, it's your life at stake. There is an unbroken chain of these people leading right back to the first guy who survived, and you want to be part of that chain."