Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!censor!geac!contact!dmntor!bill
From: bill@dmntor.UUCP (Bill Kyle)
Subject: Re: oil well fires and shuttle tiles
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.174830.22589@dmntor.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@dmntor.UUCP (Bill Kyle)
Organization: Digital Media Networks, Toronto, Canada
References: <1991Mar14.151130.3822@welch.jhu.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 17:48:30 GMT
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In article <1991Mar14.151130.3822@welch.jhu.edu> jimh@welch.jhu.edu (Jim Hoffman) writes:
>Just an idea. Scince fire needs oxygen to live, why not smother the flames
>of the Middle East.  Build a dome structure that has shuttle tiles as the
>interior wall.  For one, the flame will smother on its own smoke and combine
>it with foam or water or what ever to cool it.  Two, the shuttle tiles 
>enable a smaller structure because of its ability to handle heat soooooooo
>well.  I have no idea what would go into  building it, but with the devistation that these
>fires are to doing to our environment, some experimenting with all possiblities
>seems to the thing to do!   
>
>Jim       (jimh@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu)

No.

A) The various winds created by the heat and flame make it highly difficult
   to set up the structure 

B) The structure would act like a kiln, the heat would build-up to 
   increadible levels possible to high for the tiles and certainly 
   detremental to whatever foundation, sand floor, or whatever else
   that burns or melts.
   
C) The environmental "devistation" is unfortunate but highly sensationalized
   by a press that's looking for material after the shooting has stopped. 
