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warning about potato storage gas - Prepper1 - 3 September 2013
Now I didnt know this threat existed
Russian girl, 8, orphaned after her ENTIRE family is wiped out by deadly gas caused by rotting potatoes in the cellar
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2409920/Russian-girl-8--orphaned-ENTIRE-family-wiped-deadly-gas-caused-rotting-potatoes-cellar.html
I think that your supposed to change the storage area air regularly with potatoes as they produce carbon dioxide which depletes the air..
I cant find much so far on the gases given of so if anybody knows anything of use, dont be afraid of posting it...
Death by potatoe......
I was looking here and it keeps mentioning co2 so that looks like the culprit..
http://www.gov.mb.ca/agriculture/crops/potatoes/bda04s06.html
Ah yes read this extract...
Carbon dioxide based fire protection systems have been linked to several deaths, because it can cause suffocation in sufficiently high concentrations.
So as they use them in fire suppression systems to remove the oxygen from the air to stop the fire, that's how you die in a sealed room with potatoes, they release carbon dioxide which depletes the air, therefore you suffocate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide
So that's how the world will end... Potatoes suffocating everyone....