Special Notice From L. John Fry

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May/June 1975
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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There is a right way to store gas. On the positive side, a well designed floating gas holder, guided so that it can rise and fall according to the amount of gas entering or leaving it, free of oxygen inside, is so safe that if it should be ruptured by lightning, some strange accident, or even by an incendiary device, the gas would merely burn. It would not explode since there would be no oxygen in it from the start, and no oxygen or air ever permitted to enter the gas holder, digester or piping at any time.

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When contributing to and writing the two publications on methane, the safety factors were thoroughly researched, checked and re-checked for omissions, ambiguities, mulled over by a lawyer, and made as complete as they could be. It was impossible to foresee the adoption of a "gas holder" as shown in the drawing of the WRONG one. In theory and in practice it is useless and downright dangerous.

Another safe way to store gas is in pressure cylinders. These must, by law, be legally authorized, tested pressure vessels and certified by an approved authority who will present a certificate of the test done. This must be repeated at regular time intervals.

To attempt to contact every reader of the two publications is impossible. but with an initial outlay of a considerable amount of money, and through different news media, this warning is being broadcast by every available means to order to try to prevent any anyone being injured even if the blame is in no way attributable to what I have written.

L. John Fry
1223 N. Nopal Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93103, USA

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