Gizmag Fighting fire with explosives

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Building on a technique commonly used to extinguish oil well fires, Dr Graham Doig from the University of New South Wales' School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering is examining whether explosives could be used to fight out-of-control forest and bushfires by blasting the flames out of treetops, slowing the fire and making it easier to fight on the ground... Continue Reading Fighting fire with explosives

Section: Good Thinking

Tags: Bushfires, Explosives, Fire, University of New South Wales

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