A Way To Extinguish House Fires?

[George Cantstandya]

(03-08-2022, 12:30 AM)bfine32 Wrote: It's a stupid idea. Not because it wouldn't work in theory, but because it's not feasible. 

It would not work because most yards around a house are not totally flat thus no way to make a seal.  So even if said glass bubble was large enough and dropped over a house there would be no real air seal to cut off oxygen supply.  I'm not an engineer and know little about thermodynamics but I wonder if the air was not totally sealed off due to uneven terrain maybe leaks would increase airflow from the unsealed areas and that might indeed fuel the fire sort of like many furnaces while the fire sucked in air from said leaks to fuel the fire. Thus making the fire more intense and possibly worse.  Fires suck in air and if it can't be totally sealed off then they are going to find a source to fuel the furnace and I wonder if it might actually make the fire more intense.

Anyway I am bored so made this bad picture:



Either way it would never work. It would probably take a helicopter with a carrying capacity close to a Chinook to not only carry said glass container but also deal with the drag the huge glass container imposed on the aircraft.