The rules are designed to keep those outside safe. The ones inside are far less a concern to the authorities.
There are rules about sparking surfaces though, and it’s likely we’d have to line the whole interior with rubber sheeting at a minimum.
The rules also specify metal doors with weights over x and multiple locks of type y and z. The lighter solutions are harder to secure properly.
Your point is a good one, but think of every explosives bunker you’ve ever seen. It’s the outside design that counts. One bunker blowing up is plenty bad enough.
Better a controlled fart through a blowout panel in a safe direction than shrapnels of the bunker.
Sparking is a bitch. Especially around flash powder. Especially the black aluminium is rather sensitive. Nanoparticles double so. Also beware of dust on the floor.
Any thoughts about playing with magnesium-fluoropolymer compositions? What about reactive materials? What about 3d-printable reactive materials or thermite compositions? What about pyrotechnic heat generators, for e.g. activating molten salt batteries or for heating beverages - a heating finger with a bit of thermite could be quite more efficient than the usual calcium oxide hydration? Also, what about small-scale casting of iron or copper or chromium produced by thermite reaction - could allow making small parts or pieces of art without a foundry?
Girandolas - They’re famous for failing spectacularly. They’re also cool when they don’t fail. The one in the link is a doozy.
Lampares - This is a liquid fueled salute. Basically a gas bomb in the air. They make really neat orange fireballs. And they’re just about the most dangerous firework to launch.
Oh, one more! Ghost mines. You’ll never see any of this stuff at a standard show, but my oh my is it fun.
What about rubidium/caesium as a colorant? They shine in near-infrared, could be used as IR flares or multispectral fireworks.
What about strobe mixture with these? Could be used as an anti-nightvision flare; emit lots of bright flashes, confuse the AGC circuitry of the devices.
And smokes. What about infrared smokes, compositions that produce particles big enough (perhaps filamentous/spongy?) to absorb in the far infrared?
And I saw somewhere a composition that used silver iodate, and produced and spread disinfecting silver nanoparticles…
So many possibilities!!!
…also, liquid-phase thoughts.
First, a variant on magnesium-fluoropolymer could be magnesium powder mixed with tetrachloromethane or tetrachloroethylene or so.
Second, what about using car fuel injectors together with several solutions of colorants in alcohol, and (with pilot flames) making multicolored computer-controlled flame shows?
…maybe I should sleep, my love of fire is stirring…
Edit: …also, what about bench tests of the compositions? Any tricks of the trade? Any instrumentation for burning temperature measurement? Precise adjustment is reportedly important for good blues…
And what about thermite pellets? Essentially grossly scaled-down thermite grenades? Or thermite “pencil”, maybe it could be used as a disposable welding or cutting torch for small pieces of steel?
I’d love to build something like this. It would take a year, and making your own double glazed windows I hear is a pain, but it would be my ideal cabin–errr, hovel.
One thing that confounds me about the pod is how do you calculate all the angles for the joists? Two compound angles is hard enough (fuck you crown molding), but that thing from the article must have more.
Or do you just say Screw It, don’t cut angles, and join the joists with giant metal plates? Can I take a pod apart?
I’d direct your attention here: http://www.mcmaster.com/#sheds/=ykb7kn
I’m in no way insinuating that McMaster is the “right” place to get this stuff, or that it’s the best quality/design/etc etc, only that they deliver fast and have amazing data sheets.
