Escaping underground: the eerie new age of bushfire bunkers — With concrete walls, flame-proof doors and wine racks, bushfire bunkers offer the promise of safety, at least for those who can afford …::With concrete walls, flame-proof doors and wine racks, bushfire bunkers offer the promise of safety - at least for those who can afford them

  • jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    No real mention of the main enemy, oxygen… A brush fire can deplete the local oxygen levels even if your nice and cool underground.

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      1 year ago

      These are basically small concrete boxes sunk into the ground. They’re only meant to stick out a bushfire for a few hours.

      You could probably just keep a few bottles of oxygen or a carbon dioxide scrubber stashed in there, just in case. If you can spend $10,000 on one of these bunkers, spending a few hundred more isn’t going to make a difference.

      Anything longer than a few hours would get dicey anyway without room to move around, without room to stash water or food, without a toilet or beds.

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      1 year ago

      How are they with temperature management as well? These destructive fires get insanely hot, I’ve seen these fires turn vehicles into nothing but puddles of of metal. I would be concerned that these would just turn into underground ovens.

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        1 year ago

        Even with huge temperatures, it doesn’t take that much to isolatie from them. Especially when it’s for a relatively short period