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Some individuals delight (often as a drunken prank) in lighting fires in street litter bins.
When the bin is plastic, and fixed to a lamp post, it can sometimes cause the bin to be destroyed.
BorgCo have now developed an autoquenching lamp post.
On top of the luminaire is a rain-collecting cone
which feeds down into a long vertical tank located in the upper part of the post.
The open-topped bin is mounted on the post 1.5m above street level. 2.5m above that is a downward pointing nozzle in the side of the post.
Each evening, when the street lamp comes on, the valve is opened and a couple of litres of water are sprayed into the bin, wetting the contents and making them incombustible.
If it's rained that day, the level in the reservoir will have risen, so no water is dispensed.
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Showers for the poor. [+] |
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// enjoy putting out fires ... even when there’s no fire // |
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It'd be heavy for the trash men to pick up if it was filled with
water every night. Why not sense the fire starting and put it
out. You might even deter the fires at all by spraying the
arson. |
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Seems eminently sensible to me + |
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Wouldn't it make more sense to open the valve in response to a thermal infrared sensor, capable of detecting a fire? |
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The main problem I envisage is of the contents of the bin rotting rather obscenely until it's emptied and the cycle begins anew. |
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If it's a hot day, I'd think a bin containing mostly, say, newspaper, could dry fairly fast anyway. |
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Then you've never been around a pile of rotting
soybeans as they putrify. Worst stench known to
this man and takes a very long time to dry, even in
direct sun, due to their R-value. |
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