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[-] NewSmileadon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

What if the earth ignites all the untapped fossil fuel and releases it into the atmosphere?

[-] mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

One hell of a show that’s for sure.

[-] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe, maybe not. Fire triangle is heat, fuel, oxygen.

We can assume safely fuel and heat, oxygen is tricky though.

Explosions and ignitions only happen in a happy zone.

Too much or too little oxygen disables everything.

We also have to calculate what mix of hydrocarbons we are dealing with, how hot the ignition points are and the pressure exerted by gravity and the atmosphere.

I don't think there is enough oxygen.

Even under ideal circumstances and distribution, there is still only 21% oxygen in the air.

Propane needs 8x the amount of oxygen for a complete burn as acetylene does and acetylene in open air just produces thick greasy black strings in the air.

Idk the exact mix but I know you can barely hear acetylene coming out of a torch, but the oxygen side is loud as fuck.

Given a reasonable variance for imprecision, I feel the variance in sound levels is proportional to gas flow.

However depending on the pressure, you could need even more.

Diesel fuel is damn near impossible to light on fire at SPT, but put it under compression and it will self ignite.

We use turbos, basically little air compressors, to force as much regular air as possible into an engine, because it uses so much oxygen.

[-] NewSmileadon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I guess that's all we could say

this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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