Inaudible sound might be the next frontier in wildfire defense
News Source : TechCrunch
News Summary
- Sonic Fire Tech has built an acoustic fire suppression system that doesn’t just extinguish flames, it might also protect homes and other buildings from wildfires.
- The startup has raised a $3.5 million seed round from investors, including Khosla Ventures and Third Sphere.
- The new system uses a reciprocating piston much like those inside a car’s engine, but it is significantly larger.
- An electric motor turns a crankshaft, which pulses the two-foot piston to produce infrasound.
A decade ago, two college students built a fire extinguisher that snuffed out a fire using nothing more than a booming 10inch subwoofer. The internet lapped it up, and Jimmy Fallon even booked a dem [+3925 chars]
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