Using Water to Make Fire

[collinwarrick]

How to start fire with water:
Use fire, twice

[Schmirk]

If there was ever a steam leak in the coal plant I used to work at we weren’t allowed anywhere near the area because it could just melt away your skin or worse because the pressure was so high

[CrniWuk]

Now people understand, why steam coming from pipes can seriously hurt you in games.

[theflyinggoldfish]

Back when I was an EMT, one of the firefighters I worked with opened the wrong door and was hit by a wall of superheated steam. He had burns head to toe but the worst part was he had internal burns in his mouth, throat, and lungs. He died within thirty minutes. Still one of the most horrific things I’ve ever seen, Don’t fuck with steam, people.

[RiverBeNile]

Dry steam is one of the scariest things I've ever worked with. Takes me back to thermodynamics and just staring at steam tables all day long.

[pinballrobbie]

Saw this done in the 60s at school, never forgot it.

[NullCyan]

the shower when you rotate the temperature dial by 0.01 degrees:

[Noise]

Dry steam is terrifying, its also super efficient and makes steam trains and turbines go!

[stevegorr]

I was a boiler technician in the Navy and I can tell you steam is extremely powerful and when it's extremely dry which it can be it becomes flammable and extremely destructive. If we suspected there was a steam leak required to use a broom handle in front of us and if it cut in half then we didn't proceed.

[EricTheOld]

Super heated steam leaks used to be found with a broomstick because it would cut a man in half

[ZetaCast]

That moment you realize you can start a fire with water but you can't start the fire with water unless you have fire to get the water hot enough

[MMDelta]

Fun fact, power generation relies on super heated steam in order to make sure the impurities of the water doesn't corrode pipes and turbines.

[Eris_Strife]

In the Navy, some ships have high pressure steam system. Leaks are very dangerous. They sound like the whistling of a tea kettle. Since the sound is loud and the steam is invisible, anytime we had to find a leak we would use a broom handle to find it. We would slowly wave the broom handle up and down while walking through the space. When the handle contacted the leak it would literally cut it like a lazer. Imagine if your body hit it first...

[ninetailedkid]

How it feels to get close to the Colossal Titan

[dizelhanif]

Water: *”I have become the very thing I swore to destroy.”*

[grantgautney]

Dad said there was a steam leak in the hospital on day and the maintenance guy was ex navy and knew what to do. He said if you can hear it stop moving and call for help. Then he started probing with a length of pvc pipe. The pipe melted in half as if an invisible light saber had slashed through it, that’s when they knew they had located the leak.

[danbrew]

Gonna add this setup to my shower head.

[codycast]

“Start a fire with water”
“First, you’ll need fire….”

[MaliqIbrahim-]

"You became the very thing you swore to destroy..."
-Obi-Wan Kenobi, 19 BBY

[-ax-]

The reason we use superheated steam to spin turbines is because at the velocities the turbines spin at any coalesced water droplets would essentially act like rocks damaging the impellers.