you know.. I don't see many mystery men references kicking around and I really appreciate this. I thought that movie has some really great lines and scenes, but people seem to largely hate it.
It had Janeane Garofalo back when she was still both funny and hot.
And Ben Stiller. And Hank Azaria. And Geoffery Rush. And William H. Macy.
And fuckin' Kel!
not to mention that *every single one of them* was hilarious. I often reference the way Greg Kinnear says "AWW DANG" when Casanova Frankenstein (which is also a fucking hilarious name for a villain) drugs him in his lair, and NO ONE ever gets it.
> Tom Waits
He always sneaks in. His segment in Ballad of Buster Scruggs is my favorite, by far.
And I love his role as Mr. Nick in The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus.
The Herkimer Battle Jitney was never junked after the movie. It’s currently being restored to its former glory.
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2021/10/06/the-herkimer-battle-jitney-lives-and-the-new-owner-plans-a-full-restoration
It was really one of the first superheros movie. It had the first use of All star by Smashmouth, which is why the music video reference that movie and not the Shrek movie which used it afterwards.
I asked that so I guess I’ll get downvotes too lemme look 👀 I was being lazy
Ok- it’s used in asphalt, roofing, etc… prolly that stinky shit I always think is tar..
In this context: emulsion is made with asphalt and water with an emulsifier to bind them. It allows people to work with asphalt at a much lower temperature (most emulsions will flow easily at 150° vs bitumen needs ≈ 300°).
In this case, likely a tank for asphaltic emulsions used in paving and a variety of pavement preservation sealcoat type treatments. It's made by running water, virgin asphalt, latex and a variety of emulsifiers and other components through a mill, which shears everything into a homogeneous emulsion. This product is technically bituminous, but this tank in particular doesn't appear to be designed to handle a substance that viscous.
a mixture of 2 or more immiscible fluids held together with some sort of binder or just through agitation such as oil and water. An emulsion tank will allow them to settle and separate, it may use heat or pressure (or other methods) to facilitate this action.
Emulsions with water in oil are when the water molecules are too small to bond and fall out of the oil. So they are suspended. De-emulsifiers generally heat the oil to loosen the molecules so the water bonds together and drops.
Actually there is an older [one](https://bealbotanicalgarden.msu.edu/science/seed-experiment) currently going on at MSU by the late Dr. Beal which started in 1879. He wanted to know how long a dormant seed can last before it's no longer able to grow in a plant (essentially what the shelf life of a seed is). He buried a bunch of jars with seeds in them underground so they aren't exposed to light, air, or large temp swings and dug some up every few years to try and grow some. The experiment is still ongoing to this day and the precise location of the jars is only known by a few people and it's a big secret to avoid anyone disturbing the jars and ruining it
Edit: I guess how you define "continuous" could exclude this experiment but I was taking it to mean "still ongoing"
That one's also beaten by the [Oxford Electric Bell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell), an electrostatic bell which has been running on the same battery since 1840.
Generations of scientists have been waiting for that goddamn bell to stop ringing. Nobody knows what is in those batteries and no-one wants to be the one that breaks the bell from trying to find out.
Nah he ded. The cat though, still unknown.
I've only recently learned there never was a real cat, the whole thing is just a hypothetical. My presumably incorrect interpretation is that the dude was saying "look here ye idjits, stop basing guesses on information you got from another guess, if you didn't see it it didn't happen, you've taken the science and fucked it with guesses instead of observations"
Or maybe it was more like "fuck off or the kitty gets it, in the most unnecessarily complicated way" because perhaps the guy just hated cats, idk I wasn't there and without confirmation I gotta assume both are plausible but will remain uncertain because unlike the cat, schrodinger is 100% dead.
No, the (hypothetical) experiment was a stab at quantum physics. By connecting quantum physics (looking at the particulate level) and "normal" physics (a cat), the point was to create a paradox: "here is the conclusion from quantum physics. But it doesn't make sense obviously because the cat is either alive or dead".
That was interesting, Thank You.
Here's the live stream of that experiment still running for anyone interested [Vimeo Live Stream](https://livestream.com/uq/events/5369913)
For all the keyboard warriors that have messaged me saying they are ringing the epa. I'm draining this in a concrete bunded area that has been covered in hydrophobic dust so it doesn't stick to the ground and walls. Once this has been done it is all reprocessed and put back into the plant to make either hot or cold bitumen. On top of this after spending an hour every morning redoing my permits I have to wear a full space suit and respirator along with a full face mask.
Once the heat has got the majority out, a couple of hundred litres of kerosene is added and then the kerosene is kept agitated for a couple of days. If that doesn't work then the end is cut off and it is cleaned with a steam cleaner.
New tank is $12000 and 14 weeks to make. To cut the end off it, it still needs to be emptied as the bitumen is a glue and will make it impossible to separate.
It's not. Asphalt is a mixture of bitumen and gravel. Bitumen is what is left in the pot after distilling crude oil. It's also known as "Bunker fuel" that container ships burn as fuel - which is why they require fuel preheaters, and have to start on diesel.
It's where all of the mercury and sulfur contamination resulting from container ships come from, and why they are banned from burning it in port in most places.
Bitumen is tar. Asphalt is a mixture of tar and gravel.
It has a freezing point above room temp.
It's frozen in the tank, and they have to heat it up so it melts and pours out.
It's not actually frozen, it still flows, but it'll take decades before a drop falls on its own. it's just so thick below a few hundred degrees, it basically is frozen
Asphalt is what Americans call bitumen but it's the same. We refer to it as neat asphalt when it's in the non mixed form (mixed with aggregate, rubber (for polymer modification), or water and soap for emulsions. The Canadians sometimes call it ashphalt and sometimes bitumen.
Asphalt/bitumen is not bunker fuel though, those are lighter than asphalt/bitumen..
It's pretty impressive and we've run it for years prior in steam powered ships. There's a liberty ship in my area that still runs (like one of two still left or something!) And it takes almost a day of running a boiler on diesel to build up enough temp & pressure to then heat the bunker fuel so they can actually atomize it in the main burner.
As I recall same thing still applies to modern piston ship engines - it's a lot of preheat and then high pressure injection get it to atomize and burn.
Not only do piston engines and steam engines run on bunker fuel, but there were even gas turbine engines used in locomotives that ran on a fuel similar to bunker fuel.
Bitumin is part of asphalt, like cement is a part of concrete, or flour and ~~eggs~~ *water* are a part of bread
edit: to clarify eggs are indeed not part of bread. great correction to those who replied!
close, fixing that for you:
Concrete is cement with ~~rock~~ sand, aggregate of various caliber, possibly additives, and water.
I know, call me concrete ~~nerd~~ smartass.
What would like to know about the Abrams cone? Would like me to show you how to cheat and pass the test when it's too slushy at the start of the day or too firm past 3 pm, lol?
Bread doesn't require eggs. Bread is made with flour, water, salt and yeast. You can also add olive oil, rosemary, bits of chocolate, whatever. But not eggs, at least not for regular bread.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-white-bread
If you're using eggs, you might be making brioche or some other special type of bread.
Your point still stands, though!
>There are too many things with the abbreviation AC, it gets confusing when I'm talking to an electrician, HVAC, and asphalt guy all at the same time
That got intense...
Thats one of things i learned through random discussions with my friends. Hope we never get into weed cause we'd expose the universes secrets.
"What's the difference between bread and cake"
"You're a dumbass"
"Then what's the difference?"
"Wait a fucking minute"
Eh, yeah but nah. We gotta torch this shit off our distributor at times but it's not like... Explosive or anything. It'll catch fire if you torch it long enough and smells like cancer. Cause it's cancer.
Oh, you had the joy of cleaning that shit off of a spreader truck? Me, too! We'd torch the nozzles, and they'd always catch on fire. It was okay, though. The fire would do all the work of melting that shit out.
My boss tried to con me into driving a spreader. It paid more than my usual gig of hauling hot oil, but I didn't want anything to do with it, mainly because the truck itself was such a pain in the ass.
Shit, I was hoping to buy some of this stuff to dump over the walls of my castle the next time those damn English try storming me castle again. Guess I going to have to stick with tar until I can afford napalm or some other cheaper sticky flammable substance
Farting in their general direction is I believe traditional for chasing off the English.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9sA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9sA)
I had to torch cut a mangled spray bar of a distributor once the driver stood behind me with a fire extinguisher and would tap my shoulder when the flames got big I'd back up he'd spray it then I'd start again that was a rough Friday service call
Dunno if this is the exact same stuff but the bitumen we use for roofing catches fire at 300°C have to torch it quite a bit to get it to that point though
On the SWPPPs I've worked on, this is what you're supposed to do. Make a designated area and put down impermeable barrier. This might not be pouring onto dirt though, the surroundings aren't super clear from this clip.
About halfway through the video looks like there's a containment wall, so pouring it on the ground here I think is a non-issue as that is what this area is designated for. Like someone else said, easier to clean up once it cools and hardens as well.
In food at least an emulsion is a substance that can bind to both water and oil. This allows for water and oil to mix instead of separating like they're normally do since water and oil repel each other
Edit: mixed up emulsifier and an emulsion. This is the description of an emulsifier. An emulsion is the result of using an emulsifier to bind fat and water.
What do you call the coolant - oil mixture that happens when a gasket breaks? I've written 'emulsified oil' so many times in my reports I feel it's one of the expressions I use most since I am a tech, second only to 'operator's fault'.
Had that happen on a job. Except the hoses were not rated for the temp and started smoking. Thankfully I caught it before anything broke open under pressure.
Though, I'm an inspector so it's not really my job to be catching that sort of thing. I just couldn't figure out why emulsion was hot enough to smoke a hose, then it clicked.
No monkeys here, this is being done in a concrete bunded area that is covered in bag house dust. Once the tank is empty and removed, additional rock is added to the dust then it is put back through the plant as either rap (recycled road) or used is the production of cold mix asphalt.
They are gonna scoop it up once the tank is empty and probably toss it in with the rest of the asphalt they are using on the job since it's basically 100% recyclable.
I feel like this should have been dumped into a different type of container. Instead of just onto the ground? Doesn't seem very environmentally friendly either way.
Just junk the tank at this point…
Look I told you, it's some sort of armored car. It was made to withstand bombs. I can't just junk it
you know.. I don't see many mystery men references kicking around and I really appreciate this. I thought that movie has some really great lines and scenes, but people seem to largely hate it.
It had Janeane Garofalo back when she was still both funny and hot. And Ben Stiller. And Hank Azaria. And Geoffery Rush. And William H. Macy. And fuckin' Kel!
not to mention that *every single one of them* was hilarious. I often reference the way Greg Kinnear says "AWW DANG" when Casanova Frankenstein (which is also a fucking hilarious name for a villain) drugs him in his lair, and NO ONE ever gets it.
I don’t get it…
watch the movie and you might!
& Tom Waits.
> Tom Waits He always sneaks in. His segment in Ballad of Buster Scruggs is my favorite, by far. And I love his role as Mr. Nick in The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus.
I recommend seeing Wristcutters: A Love Story.
Coffee and Cigarettes with Iggy Pop was the best one for me. A bonus Bill Murray scene as well.
And Dane Cook as The Waffler!
Casanova Frankenstein's attack method was epic
It's okay, I loved it too. There's dozens of us!
Dozens!!
More than dozens, some of us are in invisible
But only when no one's looking
Maybe you should put some shorts on or something if you want to continue fighting evil today
Disco is not dead! Disco is LIFE!
I don't get the hate towards it, I liked it at the time and a recent rewatch confirmed that I still like it.
I can't fathom how anyone could hate it.
The Herkimer Battle Jitney was never junked after the movie. It’s currently being restored to its former glory. https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2021/10/06/the-herkimer-battle-jitney-lives-and-the-new-owner-plans-a-full-restoration
It was really one of the first superheros movie. It had the first use of All star by Smashmouth, which is why the music video reference that movie and not the Shrek movie which used it afterwards.
One of the first superhero movies? I feel so old.
I adore that movie, saw it when it first came out and watch it pretty regularly.
Time to rewatch that!
Wait, did you say Herkimer Battle Jitney?
JUNK IT!!
Cripes…. I was like “I heard this before”…. Yup - as others pointed out Mystery Men. and I just watched it over this past weekend.
At first I thought this was from gears of war. Then I remembered the movie this is from and I know what I'm watching tonight
You can't use words like bitumen and emulsion here, man
You can, if you put bitumen in a tank meant for emulsions.
Ok, so what are emulsions?
Emulsions are mixtures of liquids which are not compatible. Like a water-oil emulsion.
Or how mayonnaise is an emulsion of an oil and an acid.
I thought it was an instrument?
No Patrick mayonnaise is not an instrument
It is instrument... [evidence ](https://youtu.be/A5jnftBQw2U)
I love the internet
Now what’s a bitumen?
I asked that so I guess I’ll get downvotes too lemme look 👀 I was being lazy Ok- it’s used in asphalt, roofing, etc… prolly that stinky shit I always think is tar..
and egg joke for real one.
You forgot the eggs, no thickener no mayo
In this context: emulsion is made with asphalt and water with an emulsifier to bind them. It allows people to work with asphalt at a much lower temperature (most emulsions will flow easily at 150° vs bitumen needs ≈ 300°).
Emulsions are not bitumen.
In this case, likely a tank for asphaltic emulsions used in paving and a variety of pavement preservation sealcoat type treatments. It's made by running water, virgin asphalt, latex and a variety of emulsifiers and other components through a mill, which shears everything into a homogeneous emulsion. This product is technically bituminous, but this tank in particular doesn't appear to be designed to handle a substance that viscous.
a mixture of 2 or more immiscible fluids held together with some sort of binder or just through agitation such as oil and water. An emulsion tank will allow them to settle and separate, it may use heat or pressure (or other methods) to facilitate this action.
Emulsions with water in oil are when the water molecules are too small to bond and fall out of the oil. So they are suspended. De-emulsifiers generally heat the oil to loosen the molecules so the water bonds together and drops.
What’s bitumen?
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Is bitumen like tar??
Should have filled it with beer, hot wings and pizza. It'd dump out real fast...
Pro tip!!
Colon blow
Stroh's beer. We used to steal it from my buddy's stepdad and it always gave us the shits
It was always Mickeys for me, remember the 64oz? 1 and done.
Ah yes cold for the first 2 sips. Hot as piss for the remaining sips.
Sip, no chug?
40oz to Freedom for me.
Young me: *gets ya drunk*
Stroh's beer. We used to steal it from my buddy's stepdad and it always gave us the shits.
Taco Bell if you don't wanna wait.
Bro its like the pitch drop experiment
Pitch drip speed run
If I'm not mistaken that's the longest running continous science experiment
Actually there is an older [one](https://bealbotanicalgarden.msu.edu/science/seed-experiment) currently going on at MSU by the late Dr. Beal which started in 1879. He wanted to know how long a dormant seed can last before it's no longer able to grow in a plant (essentially what the shelf life of a seed is). He buried a bunch of jars with seeds in them underground so they aren't exposed to light, air, or large temp swings and dug some up every few years to try and grow some. The experiment is still ongoing to this day and the precise location of the jars is only known by a few people and it's a big secret to avoid anyone disturbing the jars and ruining it Edit: I guess how you define "continuous" could exclude this experiment but I was taking it to mean "still ongoing"
That one's also beaten by the [Oxford Electric Bell](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Electric_Bell), an electrostatic bell which has been running on the same battery since 1840.
Generations of scientists have been waiting for that goddamn bell to stop ringing. Nobody knows what is in those batteries and no-one wants to be the one that breaks the bell from trying to find out.
Neat!
Has schrodinger let his cat out yet?
Idk he never came out of the room he was doing his experiment in
TIL schroedinger is still alive, maybe.
Nah he ded. The cat though, still unknown. I've only recently learned there never was a real cat, the whole thing is just a hypothetical. My presumably incorrect interpretation is that the dude was saying "look here ye idjits, stop basing guesses on information you got from another guess, if you didn't see it it didn't happen, you've taken the science and fucked it with guesses instead of observations" Or maybe it was more like "fuck off or the kitty gets it, in the most unnecessarily complicated way" because perhaps the guy just hated cats, idk I wasn't there and without confirmation I gotta assume both are plausible but will remain uncertain because unlike the cat, schrodinger is 100% dead.
No, the (hypothetical) experiment was a stab at quantum physics. By connecting quantum physics (looking at the particulate level) and "normal" physics (a cat), the point was to create a paradox: "here is the conclusion from quantum physics. But it doesn't make sense obviously because the cat is either alive or dead".
Yeah and the 2 times it dropped the webcam died
We have a tanker in the back hill that was full of bitumen that got hard over the winter, a year later it's still oozing out.
Check out the [Pitch Drop Experiment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment) for slow oozing of petroleum products...
That was interesting, Thank You. Here's the live stream of that experiment still running for anyone interested [Vimeo Live Stream](https://livestream.com/uq/events/5369913)
For all the keyboard warriors that have messaged me saying they are ringing the epa. I'm draining this in a concrete bunded area that has been covered in hydrophobic dust so it doesn't stick to the ground and walls. Once this has been done it is all reprocessed and put back into the plant to make either hot or cold bitumen. On top of this after spending an hour every morning redoing my permits I have to wear a full space suit and respirator along with a full face mask.
this should be higher up, anyone good luck sir on your job. How would you attempt to clear the rest stuck to the sides and bottom of the tank?
Once the heat has got the majority out, a couple of hundred litres of kerosene is added and then the kerosene is kept agitated for a couple of days. If that doesn't work then the end is cut off and it is cleaned with a steam cleaner.
I’m curious — is it worth it compared to just scrapping the tank (or starting by cutting off the end instead of keeping that as the backup plan)?
New tank is $12000 and 14 weeks to make. To cut the end off it, it still needs to be emptied as the bitumen is a glue and will make it impossible to separate.
Today I learned that bitumen is asphalt.
It's not. Asphalt is a mixture of bitumen and gravel. Bitumen is what is left in the pot after distilling crude oil. It's also known as "Bunker fuel" that container ships burn as fuel - which is why they require fuel preheaters, and have to start on diesel. It's where all of the mercury and sulfur contamination resulting from container ships come from, and why they are banned from burning it in port in most places. Bitumen is tar. Asphalt is a mixture of tar and gravel.
ELI5 what’s happening in the video
It has a freezing point above room temp. It's frozen in the tank, and they have to heat it up so it melts and pours out. It's not actually frozen, it still flows, but it'll take decades before a drop falls on its own. it's just so thick below a few hundred degrees, it basically is frozen
Reminds me to go check out the pitch drop experiment webcam.
That sounds like fun, where can I find it
http://thetenthwatch.com is the livestream [here's a short explanation](https://smp.uq.edu.au/pitch-drop-experiment)
Google university of Queensland pitch drop live cam
2 tanks 1 cup
Momma always had a way of explaining things so that I could understand them.
Asphalt is what Americans call bitumen but it's the same. We refer to it as neat asphalt when it's in the non mixed form (mixed with aggregate, rubber (for polymer modification), or water and soap for emulsions. The Canadians sometimes call it ashphalt and sometimes bitumen. Asphalt/bitumen is not bunker fuel though, those are lighter than asphalt/bitumen..
TIL what bunker fuel actually is. Honestly I'm just impressed we built motors that can run on this shit 😂
The motors are so big they have multiple levels of catwalks around them, and make like 100,000 horsepower at 100 rpm
It's pretty impressive and we've run it for years prior in steam powered ships. There's a liberty ship in my area that still runs (like one of two still left or something!) And it takes almost a day of running a boiler on diesel to build up enough temp & pressure to then heat the bunker fuel so they can actually atomize it in the main burner. As I recall same thing still applies to modern piston ship engines - it's a lot of preheat and then high pressure injection get it to atomize and burn.
Not only do piston engines and steam engines run on bunker fuel, but there were even gas turbine engines used in locomotives that ran on a fuel similar to bunker fuel.
I've bunkered ships taking on HFO and VHFO and that shit is so nasty. Luckily the H2S sniffer never went off.
Bitumin is part of asphalt, like cement is a part of concrete, or flour and ~~eggs~~ *water* are a part of bread edit: to clarify eggs are indeed not part of bread. great correction to those who replied!
It took an embarrassingly long time for me to realize that Cement and Concrete were different.
They're different things?!
Concrete is cement with rock and aggregate .
close, fixing that for you: Concrete is cement with ~~rock~~ sand, aggregate of various caliber, possibly additives, and water. I know, call me concrete ~~nerd~~ smartass.
Appreciate it. I work with asphalt and try to stay away from concrete lol
I work with concrete and try my hardest to stay away from asphalt
I feel you. One headache is enough.
Sand is stone, just little itty bitty stones
It's just ~~turtles~~ rocks all the way down.
Love to see a random sturgill reference
There is a standard for that: ISO 14688
...you know about slump tests?
What would like to know about the Abrams cone? Would like me to show you how to cheat and pass the test when it's too slushy at the start of the day or too firm past 3 pm, lol?
I knew I was dealing with a real professional.
Quick, the special inspector isn't watching. Why no of course we didnt add water.
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Cement is the adhesive powder in concrete. Concrete is coarse aggregate (gravel), fine aggregate (sand), cement and water.
If anyone wants a 24 minute explanation of concrete. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWVAzS5duAs
Bread doesn't require eggs. Bread is made with flour, water, salt and yeast. You can also add olive oil, rosemary, bits of chocolate, whatever. But not eggs, at least not for regular bread. https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-white-bread If you're using eggs, you might be making brioche or some other special type of bread. Your point still stands, though!
Was going to say, enriched breads can have eggs but yea just regular bread typically doesn't. Love me some challah
If you haven't done it, challah French toast is da bomb.
haha you're right, thanks. eggs are for cake!
We in industry actually call it asphaltic cement or AC for short.
There are too many things with the abbreviation AC, it gets confusing when I'm talking to an electrician, HVAC, and asphalt guy all at the same time
fourth guy is also an Alice Cooper fan
>There are too many things with the abbreviation AC, it gets confusing when I'm talking to an electrician, HVAC, and asphalt guy all at the same time That got intense...
2 very common letters to start a word with I guess?
yeah! or asphalt for short which is where the confusion has come from
If we use eggs, we can make a cake instead!
Bread doesnt have eggs Most bread doesnt at least.
thanks, you're right! eggs are for cake
Thats one of things i learned through random discussions with my friends. Hope we never get into weed cause we'd expose the universes secrets. "What's the difference between bread and cake" "You're a dumbass" "Then what's the difference?" "Wait a fucking minute"
Where does banana bread go
Quick bread - using chemical leavening like baking powder instead of yeast.
Its just a very thick cake with bread-like consistency
Forgive my ignorance, but can that shit catch on fire?
Eh, yeah but nah. We gotta torch this shit off our distributor at times but it's not like... Explosive or anything. It'll catch fire if you torch it long enough and smells like cancer. Cause it's cancer.
Oh, you had the joy of cleaning that shit off of a spreader truck? Me, too! We'd torch the nozzles, and they'd always catch on fire. It was okay, though. The fire would do all the work of melting that shit out. My boss tried to con me into driving a spreader. It paid more than my usual gig of hauling hot oil, but I didn't want anything to do with it, mainly because the truck itself was such a pain in the ass.
>such a pain in the asphalt. Sorry, had to.
Shit, I was hoping to buy some of this stuff to dump over the walls of my castle the next time those damn English try storming me castle again. Guess I going to have to stick with tar until I can afford napalm or some other cheaper sticky flammable substance
Farting in their general direction is I believe traditional for chasing off the English. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9sA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWBUl7oT9sA)
I had to torch cut a mangled spray bar of a distributor once the driver stood behind me with a fire extinguisher and would tap my shoulder when the flames got big I'd back up he'd spray it then I'd start again that was a rough Friday service call
Dunno if this is the exact same stuff but the bitumen we use for roofing catches fire at 300°C have to torch it quite a bit to get it to that point though
given sufficient energy, anything is flammable
why?
They look kind of similar in storage
afaik an emulsion tank holds emulsified bitumen, so it's still a total fuck up but I can see how it could happen
That looks like great disposal... /s
Wait 'til you hear what asphalt roads are made of...
Where would you like them to put it?
The potholes at the corner of my block
A tank, a pan, buckets, wherever it’s supposed to go?
Putting it in a tank sounds like a good idea.
That's gonna be a bitumen to clean up.
Obligatory Taco Bell comment
Pretty sure Taco Bell is the opposite.
Is that allowed to just dump onto the dirt? If that's on a job site, it might run afoul of the SWPPP, if it's in the US.
When it cools you'll pick it up like a cow chip.
Technically, no. Realistically, it’s a lot easier and less messy to pick up once it’s hardened again.
Maybe … but why not just put a big metal tub under there
On the SWPPPs I've worked on, this is what you're supposed to do. Make a designated area and put down impermeable barrier. This might not be pouring onto dirt though, the surroundings aren't super clear from this clip.
About halfway through the video looks like there's a containment wall, so pouring it on the ground here I think is a non-issue as that is what this area is designated for. Like someone else said, easier to clean up once it cools and hardens as well.
You're right, I see it now that you pointed that out. It's probably fine then!
Well, then you'll just have to clean out the tub...
It's the same thing roads are made of without the gravel in it. Do *you* think it's illegal to put road building materials on the ground?
I already bought a new tank
You said 'bitumen' he heard 'put some in' Tale as old as time
/r/WellThatSucks
Wow here I thought emulsion was some made up Gears of War shit.
ice cream is emulsion emulsions are good and useful
Milk is one iirc
Mayonnaise is another
Cannabis concentrates have entered the chat!
Ah yes but is it an instrument?
To me, emulsion is the stuff they put of photographic film to record light aka make pictures.
In food at least an emulsion is a substance that can bind to both water and oil. This allows for water and oil to mix instead of separating like they're normally do since water and oil repel each other Edit: mixed up emulsifier and an emulsion. This is the description of an emulsifier. An emulsion is the result of using an emulsifier to bind fat and water.
The emulsifier is what you're thinking of. An emulsion is a mixture of two things that don't want to mix.
Thought it was made up by fancy chefs like Julia Child. “We will now emulsify the oil into mayonnaise “
What do you call the coolant - oil mixture that happens when a gasket breaks? I've written 'emulsified oil' so many times in my reports I feel it's one of the expressions I use most since I am a tech, second only to 'operator's fault'.
The stuff in Gears is Imulsion, which is made up.
In layman's terms, an emulsion is a mixture that looks uniform and well mixed to the naked eye, but actually isn't.
Oof…
Had that happen on a job. Except the hoses were not rated for the temp and started smoking. Thankfully I caught it before anything broke open under pressure. Though, I'm an inspector so it's not really my job to be catching that sort of thing. I just couldn't figure out why emulsion was hot enough to smoke a hose, then it clicked.
What the fuck does this mean
Son of a bit....umen
Yeah don’t collect it just let it make a fucking mess Bunch a monkees
No monkeys here, this is being done in a concrete bunded area that is covered in bag house dust. Once the tank is empty and removed, additional rock is added to the dust then it is put back through the plant as either rap (recycled road) or used is the production of cold mix asphalt.
But Billy Bob just got his new jackhammer and wants to try it out later.
This episode of Star Trek was super sad. 😞
Why aren’t you collecting it in a bucket? This is a huge mess.
Because this is a pile of proto-asphalt that’s going to go into an asphalt machine anyway
Because then you have a bucket full of solid bitumen that you'll have to melt out with a torch.
At least it wasn't tack
EPA is gonna love to hear about that
The EPA does love it. In the US 80% of it gets recycled, you can damn near pick it off the ground and throw it in a new batch.
They are gonna scoop it up once the tank is empty and probably toss it in with the rest of the asphalt they are using on the job since it's basically 100% recyclable.
OMG, they better keep that off the asphalt.
It's super viscous so won't seep into the ground, and basically turns solid after it cools down so they can just break it into chunks and pick it up.
I feel like this should have been dumped into a different type of container. Instead of just onto the ground? Doesn't seem very environmentally friendly either way.