US Supreme Court Rules Workers Can’t Be Fired for LGBT Status – Bloomberg
Fire
Despite Health Risks, U.S. Military Will Burn Firefighting Foam
Although incineration is the military’s chosen disposal method, there has been little research on the safety of burning the foam. Two studies concluded that the incineration of PFAS chemicals would not be a source of further contamination, but both were funded by companies with a vested interest in making the problem go away. The first study was funded by DuPont, which used PFOA in the production of Teflon. The second was funded by 3M, which developed AFFF in partnership with the Navy in the 1960s and was the military’s exclusive supplier of AFFF for decades.
But some of the scant research on the topic suggests that incineration may not fully destroy PFAS. After PCBs were found in chicken eggs laid near an incinerator, a 2018 study determined that PFOA was released into the air by a municipal incinerator in the Netherlands. The author concluded that “modern incinerators cannot fully destroy” PFOA, PCBs, and other persistent chemicals.
How Fire Works
SYSK Selects: How Fire Works
5/16/2020 by iHeartRadio
Web player: https://podplayer.net/?id=105368174
Episode: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chtbl.com/track/5899E/traffic.megaphone.fm/HSW2314270866.mp3
Creating fire was possibly the most important human discovery, but it’s easy to take for granted. But. Josh and Chuck get to the bottom of the chemistry of fire in their quest to explain everything in the universe, in this classic episode.
You might say I’m a bit of a fire bug 🐛 who likes spending time in the woods burning things. This episode is a fascinating show about the chemistry and the risks and dangers of fire. 🔥
Burn Baby Burn
Penn State wants to burn Pennsylvania forests to make them better – pennlive.com
Forest landowners, other than state agencies, in Pennsylvania generally use very little prescribed fire on their lands.
They’re missing out on an effective management tool that could be helping them to promote the growth of desired tree species, spur new growth to provide food and cover for wildlife, control invasive plants, suppress Lyme-carrying ticks and more, according to Jesse Kreye, assistant professor of fire and natural resources management in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
Prescribed fire is the controlled, low-intensity burn of defined and contained areas of forest with specific management goals in mind.
State agencies, like the Pennsylvania Game Commission and the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, have been using prescribed fire for at least a decade.
NPR
Fire scientists have known for decades that fires — especially large fires — could disperse potentially dangerous embers, but it's only in more recent years that the role of embers has begun to influence building regulations in Australia.
A 2010 paper published by Australia's national research agency, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, suggested that the vast majority of homes that burn during bushfires are ignited by embers.
In the last decade, "we've shifted toward a recognition that ember attack on the house, and on things around the house, is the process that's most dominant in causing houses to ignite, and therefore [we're] focusing on building design and landscaping design that's more resistant to embers," says Justin Leonard, a research leader in bushfire urban design at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
One of the ranch families I follow on Facebook lives in Oklahoma has to worry about wildfire a fair bit, and has their whole farm operation planned in such a way to limit and slow fire should it approach their barns and homestead. It's really a fascinating science, for those who have to deal with fire every day as part of their lives. Planned right, fire can be an asset not a threat to an ecosystem.
120 Christmas Trees ON FIRE!!!
That's once way to reduce a very big pile of Christmas trees into some good fertile ash for spreading on the fields.