LOL

@supreme wizard How are there all these sulphur fans but no videos of the great sulphur pyramids 😡

And Billy wants to grow up to be a sulfur worker just like his dad.

While drinking dark beer, with hotdogs with kraut and pickled eggs.

@@TheDustysix I see you like to produce a little sulfur of your own while watching, good man that.

Of the pants, the skidmark

@@dziban303 You're telling on yourself🤭

Lol what?

You're welcome ----Sulfer

Ya boy sulphur here got your back bro

A truly heartwarming film of recovering a lost element. Hope recovered and the blossoming of new things. Thanks to the Magic of Sulfur. Coming up next on the Lifetime Channel. Sponsored by Hallmark Cards.

Coming from a family of sulfur doc lovers, I agree.

What is the best sulphur doc of all time?

@@JrIcify Sulfur on sulfur.... "The Sulfur Years"

Most comprehensive I've seen in the last 24 hours.

Wait til you kids get a load of the magic of antimony!

It was *always* right with these videos. Film was expensive. They didn't waste it on dumb shit. So you wouldn't find all the misinformation you see today.

@@MadScientist267 ever hear of birth of a nation? white wilderness? propaganda films? misinfo wasnt invented online

@@FirstLast-em5uz Totally different concept. A little common sense goes a long way. Oh right...

@@FirstLast-em5uz Birth of a Nation was a cinematic masterpiece and 100% correct tho.

The old Bell and Howell!!

Leasing catalysts. That's an interesting conceptual difference between making money on recycling and saying the product is never really owned by anyone other than the people who processed sulfur in the first place

@@onemoreguyonline7878 You're right, it's like the whole issue with plastic production. The big difference though is that Sulfur is valuable as a feedstock for other products, so it makes economic sense to recover it. Unfortunately, it's more costly to recover plastics post-consumer, so usually nobody wants to handle them.

@@zachalexander963 it really isn't terribly expensive if it's crowd-sourced. The biggest hurdle is redeployment of consumer products. Have you heard of recyclebot? It's an open-source project trying oh-so-wonderfully to get its feet off the ground. It will recycle a great number of plastics directly extruded onto a filament roll for reuse in 3d printing. You're right though. I try to buy glass, ceramic, and wood/wood pulp where I can. The sad part is, we are fracking for petroleum, or we're fracking for sulfur. What a conundrum.

@@onemoreguyonline7878 ^”trying oh so wonderfully”?🤔🤔🧐🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤡🤡🤡

If oil and gas refining wasn't stinky enough just add lots of sulphur processing.

smells like money

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Did you work at Pennzoil Sulpher, Culberson County, TX? They did all their railcar maintenance on-site.

@@rsemrad2 No I work at a refab plant on the east coast. Generally when a tanker car is so badly damaged that it costs more than it's worth to repair and re-line. The tanker car is totalled out and scraped per customer decision. Not to mention that the vast majority of sulphur tank cars use a Hempel 15500 2 coat liner which is literally the worst liner I've worked with. The corrosion resistance is awful and chipping/ peeling of the liner starts well before the 4-5 year lifespan.

I was honestly wondering about that, all those machines rolling around in sulphur...

@@mfbfreak Yeah Sulphur hates bare steel.

Doesn't it turn to sulphuric acid in your lungs/eyes/other wet surfaces? That is indeed nasty.

@@MrAntiKnowledge - In high enough concentrations it will cause you to drown in your own mucus. That's just as bad as it sounds.

sounds highly dangerous

I spent 40 years as a night watchman at a cranberry silo.

@@gastonbell108 do you feel like you wasted 40 years of your life?

if you're not American your opinion doesn't matter...so stfu

better for some and much worse for others. You must be the "some" - and you must not care about the "others". Am I right about that?

So back in the day at the theater they would play stuff like this, would many people see it? I wonder if Texas Gulf pays for this or who pays for this film. That's so awesome to know. Thanks

Yes, they no longer sulfur from bouts of melancholy. I think it's great.

If you're smelling "rotting egg" from "matches", then they aren't matches 🤣

Before WD-45 THERE WAS SULFUR 😁

I know this town. Lived in Boothville at the weather station across from the school. Still have family in Buras.

So was I.

What a delightfully silly word

Thats what actually stood out to me... with all the dumb people and all the fighting and all the govt regulations, how did a process like this ever get developed, like you said... with so many huge intricate parts and required machinery and steps.... And, your also right... some really clever people did alot of really complicated consideration using an impressive amount of knowledge about a variety of topics.

As long as a couple of people got filthy rich that's all that matters.

Phosphate ore is very difficult to find in large quantities. There was a whole island stripped of its land (through the greed of the island's government). One of the main phosphate mines in the Western hemisphere is in Idaho. Soda Springs. Former Monsanto owned this fixed asset and needed products to cover the expenditure associated with owning a very expensive and specialized type of mining that requires dumping of slag to purify the ore. Essentially glyphosate was the one they came up with, and then they got into glyphosate resistant GMO crops ! It's an all-in-one package for the chemical age of agriculture. I suspect with modern machine learning and unmanned agriculture machinery, there will be the ability to pick weeds without application of costly herbicides.

When the water runs out in states like Nevada on farm land you'll find dairy farm remnants like you find former silver mining ghost towns. The farmers who once owned those properties will have either moved onto other states or retired.

Is this fecility still active?

@@MayankPrasad111 No, it ceased production in the early 90's.

I live in needville 15 minutes from New gulf and occasionally drive by the abandoned facility in awe

@@chrissantos7865 I live in Angleton, so pretty close as well. I've got a book of my dad's called "The Sulfur Miner" published in 1948 that tells all about sulfur and full of pictures of work & leisure & civic activities in New Gulf. Even a picture of my dad with his boy scout bros.

Mrr grandfather drove the bus for Jefferson Lake sulphur company which is about 4 miles south of Brazoria, it was common to see sulphur chunks out in the fields along CR 510.

Good to hear!

well acid rain didn’t help it’s PR

While the video did show an EPA nightmare, the sulfur in acid rain comes from burning coal and other fossil fuels. Cool enough acid rain has been reduced by scrubbing the waste gas from power plants to produce the gypsum that is used now to make drywall. Clever minds turned a gas that kills forest into something that builds houses.

Downsides? They're more than compensated by the upsides.

This is way older than VHS!!😂

It's still mined on the very small scale in some parts of the world though, like Indonesia. They route the sulfur gas from a volcano to the surface with pipes, it condenses into liquid when touching the cool air and then dries into the hard sulfur crystals which they break off and carry away by hand.

@@roblangada4516 I saw a video on what you are talking about, They do it exactly how you described.

@@roblangada4516 That "small scale" is actually a MINISCULE scale... Just for the local sugar refinery (AFAIK).

Nowadays most of the elemental sulphur is produced by "de-sulphurisation" of crude oil and natural gas.

@@roblangada4516 What a serendipity! - YT just "recommended" this video to me: "5 Of The Most Dangerous Jobs In The World" kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ns5pp5ahqrunlac.html - and the first chapter is about that sulphur collection from a dormant (NOT "active"!) volcano in Indonesia. Seems like abridged version of the original (Why Miners Risk Their Lives To Get Sulfur From An Active Volcano kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e5aHh5R52aiRg5c.html) in which it says (@ 8:28) it is used by local sugar "factory", where it is made into sulphuric acid, which is used in sugar purification (to remove residual calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2, used in some earlier stage of this purification, but I digress here).

Not really... fracking involves pumping a mixture of water, sand, and acid down a well into a very "tight" formation (with pore spaces too small to allow the easy flow of oil or natural gas, such a shales, which can contain enormous quantities of gas or oil within the solid rock, but the particles the rock is made from and those pore spaces are SO tiny that they do not allow the oil or gas to flow through them towards the borehole for economic production of oil or gas in quantity). By pumping this mixture of water, acid, and sand down into the formation at EXTREMELY high pressures (produced by enormous engine driven pumps on the surface, usually several hundred thousand PSI, the rock is "fractured" (fracked) and cracked, the cracks running outward from the borehole into the surrounding rock, and the acid helps eat holes in the rock to expand the passageways. Sand in the mixture settles into the cracks and as the pressure is removed, wedges in place and holds the cracks open, creating a passage for gas and oil to flow out of the surrounding rocks into the cracks, through them, and ultimately flow back to the bore hole and up the well in quantity. Fracking has been around a very long time-- it was first developed in the 40's, but it was uneconomical to do until more recent times due to the low prices of oil and gas. "Tight" formations of oil and gas bearing shales have also been known for a long time, but were uneconomical to produce because the oil or gas couldn't flow through the rock efficiently to the bore hole. Interestingly enough, in the 1960's under the Atomic Energy Commission's "Project Plowshare" program, several nuclear devices were detonated in tight formations of gas bearing shales in the four corners area near Rifle, Colorado and near Shiprock, New Mexico. These experiments were designed to see if a nuclear explosive device could blast a cavity and fracture the surrounding hard shale sufficiently to allow for economical production of gas from these tight formations. It worked-- the nuclear explosion vaporized large caves at the bottom of the borehole, into which a new casing could be installed afterwards, and the powerful shock waves fractured rock for some distance out into the formations, creating cracks through which the gas could come out of the rock and then blow through the cracks into the cavity around the borehole, allowing the well to produce efficiently... however it was discovered that the gas became too radioactive to distribute commercially, as it flowed through the highly irradiated rocks contaminated with the various radioactive isotopes created by the explosions. The wells were tested then capped and the idea abandoned. The sulfur mining method shown here is more similar to how old oilfields are "stimulated" by injecting salt water produced naturally by the wells along with the oil or gas, and injecting it back into the formation at some distance from the production well bore, so that it displaces dissolved gas or oil in the formation by taking its pore space in the rock, and forcing the oil or gas thus displaced towards the bore hole, which is usually at a higher elevation in the formation. This eliminates the salt water disposal problem of how to get rid of the brine AND increases production at the wells at the same time. This is in common use in many oilfields, including those in Saudi Arabia. Later! OL J R :)

i can offer you a life time supply of Sulfur... if you can trade something of equal greatness

Bump

But... You did... 🤔

@@MadScientist267 i ment modern stuff industrial media, this is old...

dont forget the uranium kit

Aah the good ole days. I fondly remember my dangerous toys in the era of the fabulous 70s 🙂 Peace!

Even on an obscure educational film about sulfur from the 50s I find a 40k reference.

@@roblangada4516 Glad I could help!

Glory to the emperor's sulphur

I was thinking the same thing. Compared to the fancy industrial setting, all the treatment it gets before being returned is just some far off station. There's no way they were maintaining the same standards.

Barabas brand sulfate, good for the eyes.

I remain firmly planted on the fence. however, the film makes some solid arguments. perhaps sulfur is not actually "evil"? more research is required.

It's probably not a two-color film. Yellow tends to be the first color to fade, leaving just cyan and magenta.

Sand! Sand! SAAAAAAND!!