Summary Wildfires cost billions of dollars and burn millions of acres every year, but we know surprisingly little about how they spread. At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers have learned to reverse-engineer wildfires using wind tunnels, fire-whirl generators, and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that fire is a mysterious phenomenon, and the physics behind it is often counterintuitive. View more details
Genres : Documentary Short News
Release date : May 31, 2011
Countries of origin : United States
Summary Wildfires cost billions of dollars and burn millions of acres every year, but we know surprisingly little about how they spread. At the Fire Lab in Missoula, Montana, researchers have learned to reverse-engineer wildfires using wind tunnels, fire-whirl generators, and giant combustion chambers. They're finding that fire is a mysterious phenomenon, and the physics behind it is often counterintuitive. View more details
Genres : Documentary Short News
Release date : May 31, 2011
Countries of origin : United States
