Hollywood’s in Saint John visiting her momma and sister and various assorted other relatives and non-relatives, which gives me lots of time to think. One of the things I’ve been thinking about is fires. I’ve recently become a little paranoid of house fires, no real reason for it, I just think it would be freakin’ awful to lose everything we have.
So I checked it out, fire needs 3 things: oxygen, heat and a combustible source (such as wood, propaine, humans or cats). So my thinking is that if you get rid of oxygen, you get rid of the fire. Similar to how a fire extinguisher works, it’s this stuff you spray out that’s really cold and sucks up all the oxygen. That’s great, for small fires, what if you have a fire that’s already engulfed a room? You dump truckloads of water into the room.. Great, so now you have all your stuff burnt AND waterlogged.
So I’ve been working on a mechanism to put out house fires by sucking all the oxygen out of the building. It’s similar in concept to how a computer runs, you have this CPU that’s generating all this massive amount of heat, so you throw a heatsink on it, and a fan on top of that that blows air away from it, then you have fans all around the perimeter of your case shooting all the air in the case out (except 1 intake fan). In relation to a house, one way I was thinking about was somehow getting a blue tarp like thing (something a little less flammable than a normal blue tarp) around the building, then sucking the air out of the tarp with a few large fans around the perimeter. The problem I see with this is getting a tarp that is non-flammable enough to be able to put onto a burning house. Also getting the entire thing onto the house super fast (aside from using rockets) would be difficult.
So my latest evil fire suppressing idea is to get portable fans, one for each window. The fans are are sitting on the ground attached to a tube with a square window sized attachment. A person would put the window attachment over the window (it would have something on it to break the window) and this would let the fans suck the air out of the house.

Of course, you’d have to guarantee that there are no humans or other living creatures that you want to keep living running around inside your house, like rats or cockroaches.
Obviously fans aren’t high-tech enough, we’d have to use some sort of pump that would suck the air out of the house within seconds, rather than minutes. With no oxygen the fires should die quickly, and sucking all the air out would also get rid of most of the heat.
Now don’t go stealin’ me wonderful idear!