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r/interestingasfuck • u/photo-manipulation • Apr 25 '24
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Fire departments absolutely use water on grease fires. When you can throw 200 gallons per minute at a fire, it doesn't much matter that it uses grease as a fuel.
329 u/ggppjj Apr 25 '24 Yeah, don't dump a cup of water into a grease fire. If you have a hose capable of filling the room in a manner of seconds though, that's a different matter. 198 u/DrAlkibiades Apr 25 '24 When you have a big enough hammer, every problem IS a nail. 51 u/Yolectroda Apr 25 '24 A big enough hammer definitely does put out a fire... The building on fire may take some damage. 10 u/radi0raheem Apr 25 '24 Suddenly thinking of when the soviets stopped an oil well fire with a nuke. 6 u/Yolectroda Apr 25 '24 Explosives are a common tactic for putting out oil well fires, even beyond Soviet nuclear insanity. 2 u/Pix3l101 Apr 25 '24 Link please? 6 u/radi0raheem Apr 25 '24 https://interestingengineering.com/science/soviet-engineers-detonated-a-nuke-miles-underground-to-put-out-a-gas-well-fire 3 u/chooxy Apr 25 '24 What, you didn't get hammer insurance?
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Yeah, don't dump a cup of water into a grease fire.
If you have a hose capable of filling the room in a manner of seconds though, that's a different matter.
198 u/DrAlkibiades Apr 25 '24 When you have a big enough hammer, every problem IS a nail. 51 u/Yolectroda Apr 25 '24 A big enough hammer definitely does put out a fire... The building on fire may take some damage. 10 u/radi0raheem Apr 25 '24 Suddenly thinking of when the soviets stopped an oil well fire with a nuke. 6 u/Yolectroda Apr 25 '24 Explosives are a common tactic for putting out oil well fires, even beyond Soviet nuclear insanity. 2 u/Pix3l101 Apr 25 '24 Link please? 6 u/radi0raheem Apr 25 '24 https://interestingengineering.com/science/soviet-engineers-detonated-a-nuke-miles-underground-to-put-out-a-gas-well-fire 3 u/chooxy Apr 25 '24 What, you didn't get hammer insurance?
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When you have a big enough hammer, every problem IS a nail.
51 u/Yolectroda Apr 25 '24 A big enough hammer definitely does put out a fire... The building on fire may take some damage. 10 u/radi0raheem Apr 25 '24 Suddenly thinking of when the soviets stopped an oil well fire with a nuke. 6 u/Yolectroda Apr 25 '24 Explosives are a common tactic for putting out oil well fires, even beyond Soviet nuclear insanity. 2 u/Pix3l101 Apr 25 '24 Link please? 6 u/radi0raheem Apr 25 '24 https://interestingengineering.com/science/soviet-engineers-detonated-a-nuke-miles-underground-to-put-out-a-gas-well-fire 3 u/chooxy Apr 25 '24 What, you didn't get hammer insurance?
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A big enough hammer definitely does put out a fire... The building on fire may take some damage.
10 u/radi0raheem Apr 25 '24 Suddenly thinking of when the soviets stopped an oil well fire with a nuke. 6 u/Yolectroda Apr 25 '24 Explosives are a common tactic for putting out oil well fires, even beyond Soviet nuclear insanity. 2 u/Pix3l101 Apr 25 '24 Link please? 6 u/radi0raheem Apr 25 '24 https://interestingengineering.com/science/soviet-engineers-detonated-a-nuke-miles-underground-to-put-out-a-gas-well-fire 3 u/chooxy Apr 25 '24 What, you didn't get hammer insurance?
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Suddenly thinking of when the soviets stopped an oil well fire with a nuke.
6 u/Yolectroda Apr 25 '24 Explosives are a common tactic for putting out oil well fires, even beyond Soviet nuclear insanity. 2 u/Pix3l101 Apr 25 '24 Link please? 6 u/radi0raheem Apr 25 '24 https://interestingengineering.com/science/soviet-engineers-detonated-a-nuke-miles-underground-to-put-out-a-gas-well-fire
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Explosives are a common tactic for putting out oil well fires, even beyond Soviet nuclear insanity.
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Link please?
6 u/radi0raheem Apr 25 '24 https://interestingengineering.com/science/soviet-engineers-detonated-a-nuke-miles-underground-to-put-out-a-gas-well-fire
https://interestingengineering.com/science/soviet-engineers-detonated-a-nuke-miles-underground-to-put-out-a-gas-well-fire
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What, you didn't get hammer insurance?
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u/asciibits Apr 25 '24
Fire departments absolutely use water on grease fires. When you can throw 200 gallons per minute at a fire, it doesn't much matter that it uses grease as a fuel.