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This Device Turns A Charcoal Stove Into A Cell Phone Charger
A Fire-powered Cell Phone ChargerPoint Source PowerVOTO is a new device that turns fire into a power source for cell phones. Now, where there's fire, there can be modern civilization!The key is a...
View ArticleWatch A Farmer Fight Wildfire With A Tractor
Video of fZwEJQk280YA wildfire had already burned 20 to 30 acres of Colorado farmer Eric Howard's 80-acre plot Monday when he hopped into his tractor and began drawing an improvised firebreak, a gap in...
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Gray Matter: A Venturi Pump That Shoots Fire
Flame OnMike WalkerA jet of burning cinnamon shows just how flammable fine organic powders can be in a stream of pure oxygen.When you blow air across the top of a straw dipped in soda, liquid rises up...
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Why Can't Firefighters Hear Alarms In A Burning Building?
A Cool FirefighterWikimedia CommonsResearchers at the University of Texas at Austin are trying to answer an odd puzzle: why can't firefighters hear the super-loud emergency alarms they carry with them...
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Flames Shaped By Electricity Help Coal Plants Burn Cleaner
FlameOscar, CC BY-SA 3.0One company is developing a cheap way to reduce pollution from power plants—and it does so by controlling the shape of fire. Okay, so that's not as magical as it sounds. As MIT...
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This Portable Blowtorch Uses Only Water As Fuel
Water-Fueled WelderSafeFlameResearchers from ITM Power, a UK-based clean energy company, say their new blowtorch prototype produces fire using only water as fuel. The electrolyser system turns hydrogen...
View ArticleBurning Trash With Water [Video]
Video of TysrIYJOlpkBurn baby burn. Today, we use water to put out fires. But what if we could use it for the opposite effect? Astronaut researchers on the International Space Station are experimenting...
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Connecticut Fire Department Gets Help From A Drone
A DJI Phantom DroneClément Bucco-Lechat, via Wikimedia CommonsWhen a fire breaks out at an industrial location, first responders need information fast: What chemicals are on site, and are they...
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Researchers Create Dairy-Based Flame Retardant
Fabric Flame TestsFederico Carosio , Alessandro Di Blasio , Fabio Cuttica , Jenny Alongi , and Giulio MalucelliFlame-resistance fabrics. From left to right: casein-treated cotton, casein-treated...
View ArticleWildfires Are Raging Across Northern North America
Usually the northern portion of North America is thought of as a cold, rainy, snowy tundra of a place. but lately, thing s up north have been getting uncomfortably hot. Right now, firefighters in...
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A Tree That Could Stop Wildfires
Cypress TreesRoberto Bertoli/FlickrMediterranean cypress trees are resistant to wildfires.Wildfires are devastating North American forests this summer. Dry, hot weather has pushed millions of acres of...
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Toxic Smoke Chokes Indonesia
Firefighters try to contain one of many fires that have broken out in farming regions across IndonesiaAmirin via Wikimedia CommonsFor months, fires have been raging throughout much of Indonesia. They...
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Brush Fires In New Jersey Shut Down Train Service
Environment A fast burn Here in the United States, when we think about brush fires, we think about wildfires out West, the kinds that tear through the wilderness. But brush fires can happen…
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Augmented Reality Visor Lets Firefighters See Through The Smoke
Technology Staying cool and saving lives When fighting fires, you want as many weapons as possible at your disposal.
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Drones Drop Fire Balls To Ignite Extreme Controlled Burns
Environment A new tool to help save the Great Plains The Great Plains are being taken over by shrubs, and the fix may be super-hot controlled fires. But such fires are dangerous to manage, so...
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Tiny Pygmy-Possums Can Smell Smoke And Move While Dormant
Animals Hibernating animals might sense fires in time to get to safety Pygmy-possums can smell smoke and begin to climb while in a state of torpor…
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Humans are responsible for the vast majority of wildfires in the U.S.
Environment Only you can prevent forest fires. For real. In the past 20 years, thousands of wildfires have raged across the United States, and most of them are our fault.
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This is how much of the world is currently on fire
Environment The 2017 fire season is a global phenomenon. This year seems to be a particularly bad fire season, with record breaking conflagrations stretching from the US to Europe to Russia.
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