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kleinbl00  ·  2630 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The next "snake oil" coffee company.

Had a boss who used to work in Idaho, designing AV systems. He got called onto a chicken farm once because they needed an audible alarm that could be heard 100 yards away. Apparently if the vent fans in a battery barn go out, and you don't have the secondaries switched on within a minute, the chickens all asphyxiate from the ammonia.

Which means, effectively, that battery barns output a 100% lethal stream of ammonia 24-7.





user-inactivated  ·  2630 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's something subtly magical about the wikipedia article on chicken manure.

Edit: Also, Imigongo.

bioemerl  ·  2629 days ago  ·  link  ·  
OftenBen  ·  2139 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This wonderful post has been waiting 489 days for me to discover it.

Laughed hard, thanks!