Re:Using Sound Waves to Put Out Fire: Story of Two George Ma...
by krb686 on Friday July 11, 2025 @10:07AM
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It's funny to see this on here now, 10 years later. I went to school with both of them. Was and still is a very cool project! GMU produces some pretty good minds out of the ECE Dept.!
Re:Using Sound Waves to Put Out Fire: Story of Two George Ma...
by hennell on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:27AM
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Maybe it's the hacker news app but I can't even scroll this article on my phone without clicking on one of the adverts. I once glimpsed the third paragraph but ended up on Amazon 8 times before giving up.
Re:Using Sound Waves to Put Out Fire: Story of Two George Ma...
by PaulHoule on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:44AM
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Lately noticed that if I browse the spammiest 10% of the web on Chrome I can't do anything without opening up links I don't want, on Firefox it's a lot better.
Re:Using Sound Waves to Put Out Fire: Story of Two George Ma...
by neuroelectron on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:39AM
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Reads like an AI written story, maybe with some human editing.
>The prototype already weighed 20 pounds, and in a real firefighting scenario, lugging around a heavy, power-hungry device could be a dealbreaker.
Too heavy? Unlike, I don't know, literally any other fire fighting equipment?
Anyway, it's clearly a silly curiosity and not a serious fire fighting tool. Maybe there is some undiscovered efficient waveguide modified systems that magically puts out forest fires like a wave of a wand but a amplifier and a speaker attached to a tube isn't it.
Re:Using Sound Waves to Put Out Fire: Story of Two George Ma...
by D13Fd on Friday July 11, 2025 @09:55AM
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Not the greatest article, but I love the idea of a fire truck that arrives with fire resistant drones that swarm out, each autonomously extinguishing a small section of fire using sound waves and mist. Definitely still a science-fiction idea, but it’s cool nonetheless. Even if the sound wave idea doesn’t work in practice, they could deliver traditional fire suppression methods at much closer ranges than people can.
Re:Using Sound Waves to Put Out Fire: Story of Two George Ma...
by karmanGO on Friday July 11, 2025 @10:04AM
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I came across these guys working on commercializing it with a bit of a spin on the approach (generating the sound waves a slightly different way): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYUwME-dkC0
Also, if you keep reading, it talks about research in 2022.
>The prototype already weighed 20 pounds, and in a real firefighting scenario, lugging around a heavy, power-hungry device could be a dealbreaker.
Too heavy? Unlike, I don't know, literally any other fire fighting equipment?
Anyway, it's clearly a silly curiosity and not a serious fire fighting tool. Maybe there is some undiscovered efficient waveguide modified systems that magically puts out forest fires like a wave of a wand but a amplifier and a speaker attached to a tube isn't it.