Colorado's Waveguard creates an automatic, exterior fire-sprinkler to protect homes from wildfires

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[areeskinwar]

25k....crazy...I just installed 22 sprinklers on 1 acre with a 5hp 2 inch gas line pump and plumbing, plus labour for 2k

[rollandriehn]

Great idea. BUT, forest fires tend to make their own weather including tremendous winds. How will this sprinkler system work in high winds?

[anticarrrot]

How does a glorified garden splinkler system cost $25k?

[Mary]

Everyone in California should have this.

[sallieskakel]

IF YOU HAVE HORSES (and you live in a dry climate), double-fence your property to create a "pasture" that is actually an alleyway circling your property. In a dry climate, the horses will turn this "pasture" to dust in short order; in winter, when grass wants to sprout there, the horses will churn the sprouting grass into the mud. (Creating such a "pasture" in chaparral would require heavy equipment.) The alley will also encourage the horses to move more, and thus they will get more exercise.

[NeoB-Lac]

You need to start learning weather and especially wind patterns and humidity, PIG, RH, FDFM get you a home whether station,

[aphrodite]

25k😂 I can put 9 water tanks and a pump system…

[ericphan]

We should force to use automatic sprinkler system in home and forest because it is public safety and it is not personal concern

[iceman]

Hell insurance companies should be willing to pay for these to be installed. Beats paying to completely rebuild a home or pay out injury and death benefits.

[hoonyw]

I wish all the homes destroyed in the boulder fire had this system

[DAM]

18-25k. What a rip off. Can be done easily for less than 5k

[ericphan]

Bimetal thermo sensor is stable and dependable trigger sprinkler or air bubble pressurized switch contact that expand with heat to open water valve and enable magnetic cooling peltier cell array can freeze the entire neighborhood

[willtaylor]

I have a patient for this that's 7 years old wait for it

[degas]

Biz should be booming this season 🤷‍♂️

[ev]

I've wondered why this wasn't done since I was a kid

[howtowithelizabeth]

If I ever get my own house I’m having exterior fire sprinklers installed along with interior ones I’m not taking and chances

[Wall-eandthederp]

Just put in a fire alarm system hook up an infrared camera to the system and then get sprinkler systems hook that up to the fire alarm panel and I then the fire comes in you’ll be safe by the sprinkler system in the fire alarm and also put a fire alarm outside to basically do whatever you want with the fire alarms but worn your neighbors if then the fire comes that all the Will continue to go off even if the fire has stopped and is gone away it will go off until has been silence

[mnshp]

that system is not worth that 18 000, not true, you could probably do it on the cheap for 2000, get second hand tank, some pipes, sprinklers and a pump

[balince_media]

Wanna know why this didn’t happen? A California fire would laugh and keep coming. You’re better off turning your sprinklers on before you evacuate. $25000. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣