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How far above a forest fire or conflagration would you need to be, to not burn alive?
There are three kinds of heat transfer:
Radiant heat - This is infrared light, so it travels in a straight line.
Convection - This is from air currents (hot air rises).
Conduction - This occurs when ...
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How far above a forest fire or conflagration would you need to be, to not burn alive?
This paper talks about real-world helicopters for fire-fighting (i.e. by dropping buckets of water).
You might like to read the text yourself, it is quite fascinating. One paragraph says:
Therefore, ...
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How far above a forest fire or conflagration would you need to be, to not burn alive?
Don’t go UP, go DOWN
Heat rises, and trees can dig down just as easily (if not as deeply) as they grow up. Especially since your Druid has a spell that breathes for him, have him use a tree to create ...
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How far above a forest fire or conflagration would you need to be, to not burn alive?
Fire emits hot gases which rise and carry heat. At a distance of 80 vertical meters, heat will spread mainly by convection of these gases, not by radiation or conduction. If the protagonist has a ...
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How far above a forest fire or conflagration would you need to be, to not burn alive?
If you stand far away from a house fire, you don't feel the flames.
Heat rises, if you were over the burning house you'd be cooked because the heat is going straight up.
A forest fire is the same ...
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