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.
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Not all fires burn the same way. In your example, those batteries can generate their own oxidizer, so just covering them up and “cutting off the oxygen” may not put out the fire.
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