Firefighting, CO2 bomb maybe?

I think the major downfall with this idea - especially in a forest-fire application - is the huge (hrm... that's probably an understatement of gargantuan proportion) quantity of CO2 that you'd need.

I would say it would be much easier to implement this in a house, because theoretically you could seal off the house well enough to fill it with co2 and displace the oxygen.

plus, this would be more fun:


Evergreen's 747 supertanker (just an artists conception, the plane actually flies, but has not been used to fight forest fires, yet).


GER's IL-76 waterbomber, this is from a NATO training exercise.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Did anybody see the videos (IMAX iirc) of how they put out the well fires in Iraq after the first gulf war?

They'd shove a shitload of explosives right into the middle of the wellhead, and KAFUCKINGBOOM they'd go off, and suck up all the oxygen around, extinguising the flaming wellhead.

There's nowhere I can't reach.