[Land-speed] Fire suit?

[Jon Bishop]

I think that's the same stuff they used on Smash Lab. It's a  
discovery show, similar in content to mythbusters. On one episode,  
they designed a fire-proofing system for a house that used CarbonX  
with a layer of heat resistant material called nanogel sewn into the  
middle of it. It was amazing... you can actually watch the episode on  
the discovery web site, but external tempuratures were over 2000  
degrees, and the outside wall of the house (covered in the carbon/ 
nanogel mix) was under under 100. Until the frayed edges of their  
carbon caught fire. I think if they would have had all the seams sewn  
internally, the thing would have stood up to the fire.

~Jon



On Mar 23, 2008, at 7:21 AM, Wester Potter wrote:

> I've commented on Carbon-X on the list before.  Here's the latest on
> the fabric for many uses in addition to racing.
>
> http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695263591,00.html
>
> Wes
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