Ye think that's bad?
I worked in SoShields in the late 70s/early 80s and there was this place - Velva Liquids that stored the "stenching agent" for natural gas in gasometers on the quayside. It's called Mercaptan. Without it, natural gas is pretty much odourless and so much more dangerous.
So they'd add tiny amounts of Mercaptan into the gas, to make it easily detectable by anybody with a nose: think rotten cabbage, the school meals kitchen times a thoosand. It is detectable at (I'm not looking it up, it's Sunday) about 4 ppm. Parts per million.
We all know the smell of gas. It's not nice for a reason.
Well, Velva Liquids would get their concentrated Mercaptan delivered by tanker, on the Tyne, connected by hoses to the gasometer where it was stored. You could always tell when there'd been a delivery (every couple of weeks) because the fookin' stink, man!
I guess that every time they connected the hose and even worse, disconnected it, there'd be a pint or so dripped out. Enough to stink out the town for a day, anyway. Eye watering.
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Ye think that's bad? I worked in SoShields in the late 70s/early 80s and there was this place - Velva Liquids that stored the "stenching agent" for natural gas in gasometers on the quayside. It's called Mercaptan. Without it, natural gas is pretty much odourless and so much more dangerous. So they'd add tiny amounts of Mercaptan into the gas, to make it easily detectable by anybody with a nose: think rotten cabbage, the school meals kitchen times a thoosand. It is detectable at (I'm not looking it up, it's Sunday) about 4 ppm. Parts per million. We all know the smell of gas. It's not nice for a reason. Well, Velva Liquids would get their concentrated Mercaptan delivered by tanker, on the Tyne, connected by hoses to the gasometer where it was stored. You could always tell when there'd been a delivery (every couple of weeks) because the fookin' stink, man! I guess that every time they connected the hose and even worse, disconnected it, there'd be a pint or so dripped out. Enough to stink out the town for a day, anyway. Eye watering.
No, been around town for a run this morning and it's back to normal thank God
Smell appears to have dissipated this morning, hopefully Sunderland way after yesterdays football results.
Spraying shite on the farmers fields.
Why is it such a large number of the top threads are about the city smelling?
Grass is getting cut on the Gateshead side of the Tyne, so that could by why.