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Article #14Re: Blowing out the Canberra fires, and possibly others as well...
From: Marco Desloovere
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:36
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:36
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David Bromage [Wed, 22 Jan 2003 01:56:40 GMT] wrote: >In aus.aviation ahennell <andrew@hennell.com.au.com> wrote: >> Marco Desloovere wrote: > >>> I was wondering whether it would be possible to blow out the Canberra >>> fires using helicopters? Just like one would blow out the flame of a >>> candle... > >> - Energy required to "blow" out a fire would be phenominal. > >For a bushfire it would be impossible, notwithstanding other problems >mentioned here. But the Russians have used jet engines mounted on trucks to >"blow" out oil well fires. There you go! But to mount jet engines on trucks right now, may be too late to put out the present fires! Marco
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f729d,ede07f0adb79dfe2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf729d,public X-Google-Thread: 1153d9,2e340631ec42815f X-Google-Attributes: gid1153d9,public X-Google-Thread: 10c480,2e340631ec42815f X-Google-Attributes: gid10c480,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-22 16:36:26 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!newsfeed.online.be!skynet.be!skynet.be!louie!not-for-mail From: Marco Desloovere <gertchabox@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: aus.environment.misc,aus.aviation,aus.services.emergency Subject: Re: Blowing out the Canberra fires, and possibly others as well... Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:36:24 +0100 Organization: There never was a good war, or a bad peace. Reply-To: Marco Desloovere <usenet@belgacom.net> Message-ID: <5lqs2v4eccn4fhd7c7mfdh44mbsshr3f09@4ax.com> References: <n0qr2v4pokh27foo9t138a5an16975820m@4ax.com> <3E2DF8D7.E687E851@hennell.com.au.com> <sTmX9.14$uW6.54081@vicpull1.telstra.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.136.9.48 X-Trace: 1043282164 reader0.news.skynet.be 9465 217.136.9.48:1043 X-Complaints-To: abuse@skynet.be