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Can we make giant rolls of this and enclose large swathes of land to make giant fire cells (while a fire is ongoing)? Or more simply, could this be used to wrap
by erikrothoff 5y ago
Can we make giant rolls of this and enclose large swathes of land to make giant fire cells (while a fire is ongoing)? Or more simply, could this be used to wrap currently burning areas of land to prevent spread?
- BizarroLand 5y agoTechnically, yes, we can do this. There are practicality issues to deal with. If you use trees to mark your fire perimeter, what do you do if a tree burns down? They can catch fire from on top just as easily as from on bottom. probably more so as every time I've ever seen the aftermath of a forest fire it's always been left as stumps. Then, there's structural rigidity, deployment times, and the sheer mass of material people would have to deploy to make a firewall like this work. You would need something like an 18 wheeler stuffed to the brim with this foil and support beams to stave off a football field worth of space.