Comments on: Two dead at U.S. Antarctic station https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-dead-at-u-s-antarctic-station/ Sat, 15 Dec 2018 12:54:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-dead-at-u-s-antarctic-station/#comment-1062335 Sat, 15 Dec 2018 12:54:04 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=55240#comment-1062335 “The Thing” (1951)
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https://youtu.be/tp1UPGesJCE
1:46

]]> By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-dead-at-u-s-antarctic-station/#comment-1062334 Sat, 15 Dec 2018 12:49:57 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=55240#comment-1062334 Chris–
(thanks for that tidbit!)

here we go…. ( it’s a fluoroketone, “developed as a halon replacement and hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) alternative.” )

“3M Brand Novec 1230” Fire Protection Fluid
https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/novec-us/applications/fire-suppression/
(with embedded video)

“Novec 1230 fluid extinguishes a fire before it starts by rapidly removing heat. In a typical total flooding system, the fluid is stored as a liquid in cylinders pressurized with nitrogen. Automatic detection sensors trigger release when the fire is at the incipient stage, extinguishing it in mere seconds. Novec 1230 fluid evaporates 50 times faster than water. In fact, you could soak a paperback book in a bath of Novec 1230 fluid and within a minute, pick it up and read where you left off.”

]]> By: Gene Shipp https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-dead-at-u-s-antarctic-station/#comment-1062308 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 20:17:54 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=55240#comment-1062308 Wodun

good one.

]]> By: Chris https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-dead-at-u-s-antarctic-station/#comment-1062297 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 05:35:58 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=55240#comment-1062297 Are there not far better alternates to halon?
I forget the product name (Novek?) but I remember a product that suppressed the fire but did not remove the all the O2. It was also nonconductive- you could submerse a laptop in it without fear of shorting it out.
Perhaps halon is required in the cold of Antarctica but the risks are well known and I think alternatives exist.

]]> By: M Puckett https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-dead-at-u-s-antarctic-station/#comment-1062290 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 02:26:32 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=55240#comment-1062290 Halon

]]> By: Cotour https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-dead-at-u-s-antarctic-station/#comment-1062280 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 22:25:45 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=55240#comment-1062280 This unfortunately sounds like a malfunction or a misfiring of the system that they were installing, if I were to take a wild guess. Fire suppression systems starve fire of oxygen and any thing else that is enveloped by it.

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]]> By: wodun https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/two-dead-at-u-s-antarctic-station/#comment-1062274 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:43:33 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=55240#comment-1062274 Hmmm, did they see a dog running around?

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