Weird Theories & Fire
Posted on July 11th, 2005
Somehow I jumped from studying flame and fire, and ended up on some site promoting weird theories : Zero Point Energy and from there went on to find out about some tiny town called Methernitha in a remote part of Switzerland that lies in seclusion and runs their 'Christian' community with some sort of static operated electricity generator called a Testatika. Interesting stuff - Who knows if it's real science though! [Lotsa Pics & some Vids] [Vid Clip] Oh yeah, fire/flame. From what I understand, a substance is heated up and then decomposes. This releases the molecules in gaseous form, which are then broken down by the heat and recombine with oxygen molecules and create some other by products. Seems to me that the 'flame' is the incandescence/color that results from some leftover carbon and other by product molecules being heated as they rise due to heat movement in gravity (up to less dense areas). The stuff left behind which dosnt itself burn is called Char (for wood burning) Heat / glow with no flame (For example Charcoal) happens because the material has already had the stuff that changes to gaseous form burned off somehow or has none present in it (stove element?), so the material itself heats and incandesces with no flame. Will have to look more into this to make sure I understand correctly how it all fits together. Some info I found about this that seems to confirm that this is basically how it worksEntry Filed under: Other
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