[HN Gopher] How to Kill a Zombie Fire
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       How to Kill a Zombie Fire
        
       Author : wglb
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2021-04-01 15:50 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | danesparza wrote:
       | TL;DR: Stab it in the surface tension.
        
       | PeterWhittaker wrote:
       | tl;dr: Peat fires are notoriously difficult to extinguish with
       | water (millions/billions of litres of water applied over months),
       | but water mixed with a certain non-toxic surfactant does a better
       | job of penetrating peat and snuffing the blaze. This may be a
       | very good thing indeed, considering how much of the thawing
       | arctic, e.g., is peat, and how much more CO2 peat fires release
       | than do forest fires.
        
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