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Fires has been burning stuff lately. Some of the things are expensive or historically important buildings that people would be willing to pay big bucks to save. It would be nice to have robosprinklers etc, but sometimes water is just not enough. Also many of these things require a reservoir of water
to work, and human direction to work well.
BUNGCO introduces the Fireproof Housedrape. This was inspired by the big drapes used to tent houses for fumigation, as well as the fireproof blankets carried by firefighters in case they need to hunker down and let the fire pass by them. One or more sets of fireproof drapes is mounted atop the house, folded and ready. It can sit up there for years if need be. The drapes can be deployed in a few seconds by triggering airbag-like charges. The weighted bottom poles shoot out then fall down across the house, enveloping it in fireproof fabric. It can be triggered by the owner, by the fire department, or by a heat sensor. Now embers and flame tornadoes can rage around your house - but they wont get in. After the fire has passed, the housedrape can be returned to the company, and a new one installed.
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This sounds quite feasible, even practical.
But even so, [+] |
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I wondered when our fire woes here in San Diego would get to the 'bakery. I myself have considered and rejected a couple of ideas, none as good as this one. |
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I'm one of the fortunate ones, didn't even have to evacuate, just holed up at home and breathed smoke for a week. |
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I have two friends who only today returned to their still-standing home. They're volunteer firefighters up on Palomar mountain. |
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So the endrapenated house is akin to a potato wrapped in foil? |
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Um... is this intended for occupied buildings? Because it kind of sounds like a deathtrap. |
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Oh, the fire is OUTSIDE. I live in a rainy cold place, I didn't understand. |
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Pretty good idea. Might provide the owner with an additional insurance break as well. [+] |
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"Thing of beauty" ~ Hothouse Flowers. |
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Unfortunately ignition temperatures might still be reached for things like expanded foam, paint, nylon, certain plastics, wooden roof trusses, etc, within the household. Structural damage might not be mitigated due to expanding moisture retained in bricks. |
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Would be good with some form of CO2 detonation within the household fire blanket. |
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4whom's anno bakes it for me, but really, you had me at //Fires has been burning stuff lately// |
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Even with CO2 or another smotherer, you'd suffer heat deformation and heat scarring to wood. |
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But, still...something is better than nothing. |
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Wait: a realistic, deployable, useful idea on the 1/2B? Are you nuts? |
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My entire town is a forest. Some of these trees are getting old, and we're thirteen inches behind on our rainfall this year. Things are kind of crispy. |
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Where could I get one of these? |
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/Unfortunately ignition temperatures might still be reached / |
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Air is a good insulator. Most fires are spread by direct contact from burning material - sparks and embers. If your house faced a merrily burning neighbor there would be damage to that side. But imagine a case where an exterior wall, under the drape, was heated to ignition temperature. Without free air movement under there, available oxygen would quickly be used up - probably used up as the thing began to char. A charred wall is better than the loss of a whole house. |
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[Bunsen], that should have read "Fires done been burning stuff lately." |
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It occurs to me that the automatic deployment system might be offputting to some. This could be deployed like a regular house drape as well by having folks go up onto the roof and roll down sheets until the building was covered. It would be most useful for folks who get asome advance notice of an evacuation, and would probably be used mostly for isolated high-value structures - visitor centers, historic buildings, etc. Even without the explosives, it would still be costy just for the fabric. |
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"Cost is of no concern" - perhaps you could fire it out of a shoulder launcher. |
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