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From: stan@Dixie.Com (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: oil well fires and shuttle tiles
Message-ID: <8300@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>
Date: 17 Mar 91 15:14:59 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.151130.3822@welch.jhu.edu>
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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

	BRRRR  Wrong.  As I recall the *lowest* pressure I have heard quoted
	for *any* well in the Middle East ias about 1000PSI, that would make 
	building your dome real trick.  

	To say notyhing of working that close to the fires which are  *HOT*.
	I remeber a discussion of them melting the sand around them, and
	take my word for it tat's hot!


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