evaporate by the time the fire get there is. what s your answer to that? well, that s like trying to spray paint a lawn chair in the wind from 10 feet away, the way we are using that chemical now the forest service says most wildfires are suppressed through indirect attacks. they are too big for direct attacks to be safe. well, a forest fire isn t like an avalanche or like a tsunami. it doesn t move across the landscape, it consumes fuel in front of it and it needs fuel available to propagate itself. unfortunately, what happens is the fire will propagate itself by spotting out in front of itself and this being able to work behind the fire and work on the heat is something that has always been done and done by every country in the world. e in new new mexico, we put 5g
cordonnie says he has a better flame retardant, used by more than 200 fire departments, but not the forest service. ed clineman used to work for the forest service, but now he works for peter. peter, you are an inventer, you make soil enhancers. all life-saving products. we don t make luxuries. we saw the need for it. how did you discover this? 10 years ago, i was fooling around, working on another project and i stuck my hand in it and i put it you stuck your hand it felt cool. showed it to se and i put it on an ice cream stick and i tried to light it. it went from there. we started to show it to fire departments, people who have the knowledge that i didn t have at the time of the fire. and they said, man, you may have hit upon something unbelievable. the fire department hundreds of them have embraced
after all, when you re going the distance, it s nice to have the experience and commitment to go along with you. keep dreaming. keep doing. go long. it s forest fire season. fires are raging out west, destroying homes, and who leads the fight against the fires? the u.s. forest service. it spends billions fighting fires, often straying chemicals right near the fire, fire retardants that are supposed to slow its spread. given that fighting fires is what they do, i would think they would be careful to use the right fire retardant. but do they? it s one bureaucracy. how often does government adopt the latest techniques for anything? not often. so i m not surprised that peter
it enthusiastically and some government agencies. it s unique because you can use it direct impingement, cool the fire, create a fire break and they can be used for numerous type of fires. ed, you worked for the forest service. if this is betterue brought some. let s play with it here. this goopy stuff here. if this is better, why wouldn t the forest service use it? basically, they are stuck in the mold of using one product that they have used for about 50 years in the way that they have used it. for one reason or another, they are slow to adapt to a product that is just obviously the better product. this is half the price of any fire retardant used. it s lighter, which is a big issue with the planes they fly overhead. here s what they say. they don t want to use it because they say it might
evaporate by the time the fire get there is. what s your answer to that? well, that s like trying to spray paint a lawn chair in the wind from 10 feet away, the way we are using that chemical now the forest service says most wildfires are suppressed through indirect attacks. they are too big for direct attacks to be safe. well, a forest fire isn t like an avalanche or like a tsunami. it doesn t move across the landscape, it consumes fuel in front of it and it needs fuel available to propagate itself. unfortunately, what happens is the fire will propagate itself by spotting out in front of itself and this being able to work behind the fire and work on the heat is something that has always been done and done by every country in the world. e in new new mexico, we put 5g