The smell of rotting flesh is so bad that the gas companies mix it in with natural gas which otherwise would be odorless. It’s a difficult smell to ignore. A little bit goes a long way.
One engineering firm had the low bid on finding a gas leak in hundreds of miles of pipeline crossing the dessert. While other companies depended on high tech equipment to detect the leak, this company simply drove along the pipeline until they saw a large gathering of vultures circling overhead.
The smell of rotting flesh is so bad that the gas companies mix it in with natural gas which otherwise would be odorless. It’s a difficult smell to ignore. A little bit goes a long way.
One engineering firm had the low bid on finding a gas leak in hundreds of miles of pipeline crossing the dessert. While other companies depended on high tech equipment to detect the leak, this company simply drove along the pipeline until they saw a large gathering of vultures circling overhead.