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When it comes to putting out fire, GMU students show it’s all about that bass
It happens so quickly you almost don’t believe it: Seth Robertson and Viet Tran ignite a fire, snap on their low-rumbling bass frequency generator and extinguish the flames in seconds. And even after you’ve seen it over and over, it’s still unbelievable. But the two senior engineering majors at George Mason University appear to have invented and built a way to use sound waves to put out fires. It started as an idea for a senior research project, and after a year of trial and error...
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This technology could prove extremely useful in places like offices that can be damaged by current extinguishing systems such as sprinklers.
I predict that these guys will make a decent amount of money from this.