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Red Mud, Red Dust, Red River ... horrors man do to human

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The report HERE on red mud coming up from streets in China could possibly be coming from some faulty incident in a near by plant … but this by no means would take away from such events being recognized in prophecy warnings …

Because prophecy in itself is as simple as someone knowing how long it will take a tea kettle to boil, and knowing that the boiling point will cause a whistling sound  due to the design of the tea kettle … and then knowing how long it will take the tea kettle to boil out of water … and how a heating dry pot will in a timely way smoke and began to burn and could eventually under certain circumstances start a fire …

It this bit of knowing … any Higher consciousness incarnating in this reality … and knowing matters of the earth core and works of celestial stars and moons … even maters of pyramid power facilities, the earth’s grid and other celestial matters hidden from mainstream … they could as easily foretell what would happen when timely sequence of changes would began to take place long before they actually happened … as well as in this present day identify signs of the tea kettle heated up and all that would occur as it soon to boil dry …

Now knowing the signs of what to look for … some might simply add water to the pot to keep it from boiling dry … but if the faucet runs dry … and the tea kettle is too hot to handle … and the stove burner controls are no longer changeable and stuck-on on …. and the fire department has been shut down … I guess the best thing to do would be to simply get out of the kitchen or prepare for the worst …

And the signs of times are all around us …

Neutralization of red mud with pickling waste liquor using Taguchi’s design of experimental methodology.

HERE ‘Red mud’ or ‘bauxite residue’, a waste generated from alumina refinery is highly alkaline in nature with a pH of 10.5-12.5. Red mud poses serious environmental problems such as alkali seepage in ground water and alkaline dust generation. One of the options to make red mud less hazardous and environmentally benign is its neutralization with acid or an acidic waste. Hence, in the present study, neutralization of alkaline red mud was carried out using a highly acidic waste (pickling waste liquor). Pickling waste liquor is a mixture of strong acids used for descaling or cleaning the surfaces in steel making industry. The aim of the study was to look into the feasibility of neutralization process of the two wastes using Taguchi’s design of experimental methodology. This would make both the wastes less hazardous and safe for disposal. The effect of slurry solids, volume of pickling liquor, stirring time and temperature on the neutralization process were investigated. The analysis of variance (ANOVA) shows that the volume of the pickling liquor is the most significant parameter followed by quantity of red mud with 69.18% and 18.48% contribution each respectively. Under the optimized parameters, pH value of 7 can be achieved by mixing the two wastes. About 25-30% of the total soda from the red mud is being neutralized and alkalinity is getting reduced by 80-85%. Mineralogy and morphology of the neutralized red mud have also been studied. The data presented will be useful in view of environmental concern of red mud disposal.HERE

Red dust causes health concerns near U.S. metals plants

HERE By Ramit Plushnick-Masti and Cain Burdeau, APFri,

Oct 22 2010

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/red-dust-causes-health-concerns-near-us-metals-plants

Red dust causes health concerns near U.S. metals plants


The dust is a reminder that U.S. towns near alumina factories are not far — industry-wise — from Hungary, where a red mud reservoir burst this month.

DUSTY THREAT: Red dust covers the ground and buildings around the Alcoa alumina plant in Point Comfort, Texas. The dust is the waste left after alumina is extracted from bauxite ore, and, according to experts, it is unclear whether it’s harmful to health.

When the wind blows in this Texas Gulf Coast town, the rusty red dust that drifts from the nearby metals plant sometimes creates hazy storms of dust, coating lawns, trucks and traffic lights.
 
The dust, along with the red mud lakes that kiss Lavaca Bay, are reminders that the small town of Point Comfort and its Alcoa alumina factory are not far — industry-wise — from Hungary, where a red mud reservoir burst earlier this month, unleashing a massive flood of caustic red sludge that covered nearby villages and killed at least nine people.
 
Many say the disaster in Hungary is unlikely to happen here. But the United States‘ three alumina refineries — two in Texas and one in Louisiana — have their own pollution worries.Full report HERE

Catastrophe looms as Red Toxic Sludge flows towards River

HERE By Mail Foreign Service
UPDATED: 12:36 EST, 6 October 2010

 

The source: The ruptured wall of the red sludge reservoir at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar plant in Kolontar

 

Water hazard: Workers from the Pannon Chemical University test the water of Torna stream in Kolontar

 

 
 
 

Painted the town red: An aerial view of mud covered houses in Kolontar

 

 

 
 
 

Waterways: This map illustates how the sludge could flow to the Danube from the affected towns of Kolontar and Devecser via the Marcal – several of the Danube’s tributaries are underground

A 12ft-high wave of the red sludge gushed through streets and houses of Kolontar and Debencser, the two towns worst affected, sweeping cars off roads and damaging bridges.

Around 35.3 million cubic feet (1 million cubic meters) had now poured from the reservoir at the Ajkai Timfoldgyar plant in what Environmental Affairs State Secretary Zoltan Illes called an ‘ecological catastrophe.’

Hundreds were evacuated in the aftermath of the disaster on Monday, but the incident now has the possibility of becoming a much wider ecological disaster affecting multiple countries if the chemical sludge poisons the Danube.

 
 

Scale: Diggers working beneath the broken dam are dwarfed its huge walls while right, a man peers through a hole in a hedge at what is left of his garden in Kolontar

 

Drowned: Huge pools of the toxic red sludge have formed in flat areas

Emergency workers wearing masks and chemical protection gear rushed to pour 1,000 tons of plaster into the Marcal River in an attempt to bind the sludge and keep it from flowing on to the Danube some 45 miles away.

The 1,775-mile-long Danube passes through four countries from its origins in Germany to the Black Sea and is one of the continent’s greatest treasuries of wildlife.

It is the longest in Europe, bar the Volga (2,293), which only passes through Russia, and the longest in the European Union.

The material in the sludge, alumina, is a waste product of aluminum production that contains heavy metals and is toxic if ingested.

 

Proximity: The chemical reservoir is the large area at the front of this picture, while the town of Kolontar is visible at the top

 

Submerged: This aerial view of Kolontar shows the extent to which the red mud flooded the streets

 

 

 
 

Sludge dam: An aerial photo of the reservoir of red mud, which burst its walls

 

 

Still moving: A powerful river of poisonous red mud flows through Kolontar

 

 

While it is not usually considered a hazardous substance, in this instance it has proved fatal.

Among the dead were two women, a young man and a three-year-old child, and people being treated for chemical burns described how the caustic material melted through their clothes.

Two of the 120 injured are in critical condition and their chances may worsen before they improve because chemical burns can take days to emerge.

Dr. Peter Jakabos of Gyor Hospital explained on Hungarian state TV that injured people need to seek treatment because seemingly superficial injuries can turn deadly as the chemicals slowly burn through to deeper tissue.

In the town of Devecser, the relatives of a man airlifted to hospital told how the flood of toxic sludge had ‘burned him to the bone’.

‘When I heard the rumble of the flood, all the time I had was to jump out the window and run to higher ground,’ said housewife Tunde Erdelyi.

Her husband escaped without serious injury but his uncle was flown by helicopter to Budapest after suffering horrific burns.

 

Pile-up: Overturned cars that were swept away by the red rush are stacked outside a flooded house

 

 

Wheelspin: A car struggles for control in a flooded area of Devecser

 

 
 

Destroyed: The damage caused to this house illustrates the power of the chemical river as it gushed through the streets of Kolontar

 

 

The red mud in Mrs Erdelyi’s house was still five feet high and rescue workers had to use an axe to cut through her living room door to let it flow out. She found her car had been swept into the garden and her husband’s van was straddling a fence.

In Kolontar, the town closest to the alumina plant, Erzsebet Veingartner was in her kitchen when the wave of red slurry struck.

‘I looked outside and all I saw was the stream swelling like a huge wave,’ said the 61-year-old widow.

‘I lost all my chickens, my ducks, my Rottweiler, and my potato patch. My late husband’s tools and machinery were in the shed and it’s all gone.

‘I have a winter’s worth of firewood in the basement and it’s all useless now.’

Firefighters and soldiers wearing masks, rubber boots and other protective gear waded through the stricken area today, flushing away the sludge with hoses and clearing up with dozens of bulldozers.

 

Retreat: People carry salvaged belongings from their flooded homes in Kolontar

 

Up to their necks: This room of a house in Kolontar shows the water mark of the red sludge

 

Red river: A resident stands next to a destroyed bridge as the foaming chemical sludge continues to flow

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban acknowledged that authorities were caught off guard by the disaster because the alumina plant and reservoir had been inspected two weeks earlier and no irregularities had been found.

The red sludge is a byproduct of the refining of bauxite into alumina, the basic material for manufacturing aluminum.

Representatives from industry organizations in the U.S. and London could not explain why the Hungarian victims were burned by the material, saying if it is properly treated it is not hazardous.

It is common to store treated sludge in ponds where the water eventually evaporates, leaving behind a dried red clay-like soil, the officials said.

However, Hungarian environmentalist Gergely Simon said the sludge involved in the disaster had been accumulating in the reservoir for decades and was extremely alkaline, with a pH value of about 13 – nearly equivalent to lye – and that is what caused the burns.

 

Washing up: An Hungarian Army soldier wearing a chemical protection outfit cleans a street of Devecser with a water jet

 

Damage: The powerful wave piled cars on top of one another and overturned this van

 

Traffic jammed: Cars hit by the river of toxic mud sit piled up at the roadside in Devecser

The Hungarian Aluminum Production and Trade Company – known as MAL Rt. – that owns the plant said that according to European Union standards, the red sludge is not considered hazardous waste.

The company also denied that it should have taken more precautions to shore up the reservoir, a huge structure more than 1,000 feet long and 500 yards wide.

Clearly angered by the company’s suggestions that the substance was not hazardous, Hungary’s Interior Minister Sandor Pinter, said: ‘They should take a swim in it and then they’ll see.’

The spill has been described as the worst ecological disaster in Hungary’s history.

That distinction was previously held by an accident ten years ago when huge amounts of cyanide poured from a gold mine reservoir in a Romanian town near the Hungarian border into the Danube and four smaller rivers, destroying plant and animal life.

The damage caused by the flood of red sludge is expected to take as long as a year to clean up and will require financial assistance from other countries.



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