Monday, July 17, 2006

Towers May Save High Rise Lives

Fires in high rise buildings have hurt many when they have to jump off roofs or out the windows in hopes of survival. They have a solution now, a helical tube that is extended up to the window by a special van, that clamps a platform on the window the person steps on and then slides and whirls down the tube to safety. A problem is driving the spiral tube to the burning building like driving the rescue van under the stoplights fast. Other inventors at sciencepro.com are working of the solution of this via a permanent tower on the outside of the building or embedded on the outside, the tower is said to be fire stairs in a tube, in the tube both for safety and beauty of the high rise. If a fire starts the tube with spiral inside would be rolled out and around the building to where it would save the most people. The spiral tower would roll on two rails at the top and the bottom of the building and reach the people to help. When it reached them by the rails it would clamp on the windows at any height by an automatic clamp and open the window. The person in the building would step out the window and on a platform connecting the tower and the window. Inside the tower the inventors say spiral stairs for people who weren't hurt would be beside small rails for faster evacuation. On the rails inside the spiral tube would be boxes on wheels with seats and seatbelts. The boxes would go up on rails powered by motors to the top of the tower and would be going by fast enough to offer aid to fast refuge at the base of the building on the return down. They say the spiral tower has both spiral stairs and rails for wheeled sofas with a cover so if either had bad luck the other would be used, and also railed cushion boxes would aid more people sooner if 100 people were at the top of the building. The inventors say one beauty of this is that all the levels of the building are with escape by the spiral tower because it offers escape from all the floors at that set of windows by the auto clamps to the platform to the spiral tower. The spiral tower invented by the other inventor from Israel recently just reaches to the top window to aid and all the other levels are just reached one at a time just from the top of the spiral. The inventors of this other permanent mobile tower claim this would be of use since even if builders have been building cheap to save rent, the cost of spiral towers like this would be much smaller than the cost of the whole building and would save the builders lots of insurance wages and the insurance companies would perhaps underwrite the cost to the builders to pay for the towers. Saving lives is more rich than just saving a bit of money. The side towers would be built lightweight and cheap and with built in ventilation so no fire or smoke would hurt the persons using the tower. The inventor says fire chiefs would have a seperate set of towers, with a rapid launch tube like they use in the circus to boot up the clown in the human cannon boom. The army is serioulsy considering this THROUGH THE AIR! For about a second and a half the soldier or other firechief to the people at the top would sail and land smooth at the shelf by computer aided jets right at the top of the building! It saves me a lot when I buy fizz, I like all it's got, Zero Fat, Zero PR, Zero Alzheimers risk, I stopped these months ago! This would be of use for military or nonmilitary life savers because the tower fizz boost may be put on the side of the building and then the soldier would go fast to the top and stop inside the tube with an small armored room at the top he could defend from with a windshield and gun ports. For their method for the high rise is where the fire chiefs would blast in a tube with a rail so much safer, with the same clamps of the windows at each level of the tube as in the civilian high rise spiral tube. The inventors say the fire hose would be raised up by a winch from the roof on the outside of the tube to the level the saving person reaches. Other inventors say the problem of hoses not being able to reach above about twenty floors and the huge pumps generally thought necessary for me to obey my thirst when up in the elevator watching CMT could be solved by a siphon method, the water would go up a center hose of the nozzle, and down a big outer tube, to a lower level than the base pump, and the difference in pressure would power the slosh that would put out the fire, and they say this big siphon for high rise usual use when no fire was present would perhaps even eliminate all pumps to power the water pressure when it was raining up! The pipes wouldn't burst because with implosion the round pipe or tube is much stronger in compression than expansion.


To solve the problem of rescue at sea, hydrogen peroxide may be of use. Before, when helicopters would hover to save lives, they would have just limited fuel, so could hover over rough seas just a while. The wise Reader's Digest has a Drama In Real Life about a helicopter out in the ocean and they couldn't hover long enough to pick up a person floating in a raft and had to go back to shore. Thank goodness they always get out of those stories safe, what a relief! Hydrogen peroxide, used in rocket fuel, and blonde bombshell's hairdos, is found in abundance in ocean water, so the idea they have is to send a tube down to the sea from the copter and the H2O2 is then used to power the motor, a rocket motor, that powers the hover for more hours, they think this may also be useful for boats at sea, especially stranded boats. Hydrogen peroxide has not found wide use in rocket engines because it's explosive, so this method would just be for emergencies, the usual power would be for more common days.
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