Posted by subroutine 3 days ago
That sounds truly horrifying. My intuition about molasses at that volume is all wrong.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin_whiskey_fire
I just can't think of something more Irish than that :-).
"Firefighters, this isn't going to be a picnic!"
"It isn't?"
https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/cheese-fire-causes...
Extensive repairs and upgrades were required -- it apparently took years before the tunnel was fully reopened to bidirectional traffic.
Steam or barely subcritical water.
In theory, a kilo of butter could yield around 0.9 litres of biodiesel. The main problem, apart from the ridiculous cost, is that butterfat has a lot of saturated fatty acids, so the resulting fuel has pretty terrible cold-weather properties.
Of course in this case i suspect it was probably not quite pure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Blanc_Tunnel_fire (1999, 39 dead)
>> The fire burned for fifty-three hours and is estimated to have reached a temperature of 1,000 °C (1,830 °F), mainly due to the margarine load in the trailer, equivalent to a 23,000-litre (5,100 imp gal; 6,100 US gal) oil tanker