On the news they were talking about Tesla battery fires being really hard to put out. I thought, why couldn’t you just slide a fireproof fabric of some kind under the burning Tesla. Pull that sucker up, and vacuum seal it.
Basically, why aren’t fires put out more often by cutting off oxygen? It seems like the most effective way as opposed to dousing it with water or sand.
In: Physics
That’s called a fire blanket and they work really well. On fires that need external oxygen to keep burning. doesn’t even have to be high tech, a wet bath towel works on small fires.
Depending on WHAT is burning that may or may not be the case. Gasoline, sure it would work as long as you could seal it. The fire would consume the available oxygen inside the seal and then die.
Battery fires? Nope, they can keep going.
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