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Using Sound Waves to Put Out Fire: Story of Two George Mason University Students

15 points by taubek 1y ago

bcraven 1y ago
Video recreation from The Action Lab: https://youtu.be/ZvnCQg4w4o8?si=xH_4RRToC-yRIuqC&t=200 https://youtu.be/ZvnCQg4w4o8?si=xH_4RRToC-yRIuqC&t=200
aaron695 1y ago
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nubinetwork 1y ago
2015
- CalChris 1y ago
  2024
  - geobrus 1y ago
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  - nubinetwork 1y ago
    https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/2015-02/pump-bass-douse-blaze-mason-students-invention-fights-fires https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/2015-02/pump-bass-douse-blaze-...
- kayodelycaon 1y ago
  Date on the article: 7 March 2024 Also, if you keep reading, it talks about research in 2022.
  - krb686 1y ago
    It's funny to see this on here now, 10 years later. I went to school with both of them. Was and still is a very cool project! GMU produces some pretty good minds out of the ECE Dept.!
  - nubinetwork 1y ago
    https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/2015-02/pump-bass-douse-blaze-mason-students-invention-fights-fires https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/2015-02/pump-bass-douse-blaze-...
hennell 1y ago
Maybe it's the hacker news app but I can't even scroll this article on my phone without clicking on one of the adverts. I once glimpsed the third paragraph but ended up on Amazon 8 times before giving up.
- taubek 1y ago
  Try https://archive.ph/1puaL https://archive.ph/1puaL
- PaulHoule 1y ago
  Lately noticed that if I browse the spammiest 10% of the web on Chrome I can't do anything without opening up links I don't want, on Firefox it's a lot better.
hosteur 1y ago
So wind blows out fire?
- dwater 1y ago
  Blowing on fire extinguishes it by removing heat. This device "agitates the air enough to separate oxygen from the fuel, starving the fire."
neuroelectron 1y ago
Reads like an AI written story, maybe with some human editing. >The prototype already weighed 20 pounds, and in a real firefighting scenario, lugging around a heavy, power-hungry device could be a dealbreaker. Too heavy? Unlike, I don't know, literally any other fire fighting equipment? Anyway, it's clearly a silly curiosity and not a serious fire fighting tool. Maybe there is some undiscovered efficient waveguide modified systems that magically puts out forest fires like a wave of a wand but a amplifier and a speaker attached to a tube isn't it.
D13Fd 1y ago
Not the greatest article, but I love the idea of a fire truck that arrives with fire resistant drones that swarm out, each autonomously extinguishing a small section of fire using sound waves and mist. Definitely still a science-fiction idea, but it’s cool nonetheless. Even if the sound wave idea doesn’t work in practice, they could deliver traditional fire suppression methods at much closer ranges than people can.
karmanGO 1y ago
I came across these guys working on commercializing it with a bit of a spin on the approach (generating the sound waves a slightly different way): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYUwME-dkC0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYUwME-dkC0

15 points by taubek 1y ago

Video recreation from The Action Lab: https://youtu.be/ZvnCQg4w4o8?si=xH_4RRToC-yRIuqC&t=200 https://youtu.be/ZvnCQg4w4o8?si=xH_4RRToC-yRIuqC&t=200

aaron695 1y ago

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nubinetwork 1y ago

2015

CalChris 1y ago
2024
- geobrus 1y ago
  [dead]
- nubinetwork 1y ago
  https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/2015-02/pump-bass-douse-blaze-mason-students-invention-fights-fires https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/2015-02/pump-bass-douse-blaze-...
kayodelycaon 1y ago
Date on the article: 7 March 2024 Also, if you keep reading, it talks about research in 2022.
- krb686 1y ago
  It's funny to see this on here now, 10 years later. I went to school with both of them. Was and still is a very cool project! GMU produces some pretty good minds out of the ECE Dept.!
- nubinetwork 1y ago
  https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/2015-02/pump-bass-douse-blaze-mason-students-invention-fights-fires https://volgenau.gmu.edu/news/2015-02/pump-bass-douse-blaze-...

hennell 1y ago

Maybe it's the hacker news app but I can't even scroll this article on my phone without clicking on one of the adverts. I once glimpsed the third paragraph but ended up on Amazon 8 times before giving up.

taubek 1y ago
Try https://archive.ph/1puaL https://archive.ph/1puaL
PaulHoule 1y ago
Lately noticed that if I browse the spammiest 10% of the web on Chrome I can't do anything without opening up links I don't want, on Firefox it's a lot better.

hosteur 1y ago

So wind blows out fire?

dwater 1y ago
Blowing on fire extinguishes it by removing heat. This device "agitates the air enough to separate oxygen from the fuel, starving the fire."

neuroelectron 1y ago

Reads like an AI written story, maybe with some human editing. >The prototype already weighed 20 pounds, and in a real firefighting scenario, lugging around a heavy, power-hungry device could be a dealbreaker. Too heavy? Unlike, I don't know, literally any other fire fighting equipment? Anyway, it's clearly a silly curiosity and not a serious fire fighting tool. Maybe there is some undiscovered efficient waveguide modified systems that magically puts out forest fires like a wave of a wand but a amplifier and a speaker attached to a tube isn't it.

D13Fd 1y ago

Not the greatest article, but I love the idea of a fire truck that arrives with fire resistant drones that swarm out, each autonomously extinguishing a small section of fire using sound waves and mist. Definitely still a science-fiction idea, but it’s cool nonetheless. Even if the sound wave idea doesn’t work in practice, they could deliver traditional fire suppression methods at much closer ranges than people can.

karmanGO 1y ago

I came across these guys working on commercializing it with a bit of a spin on the approach (generating the sound waves a slightly different way): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYUwME-dkC0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYUwME-dkC0