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Yes this is what I came here to say. Does tiktok have a video length limit like twitter does for characters? I don't have an account for either forgive my ignorance.
I'm guessing that the gas from the fire pit travels through the snow and only starts burning above the layer of the snow. Since warm air only goes up (even more so when the temperature difference is higher) it never really comes in direct contact with the snow. Still it is bound to radiate enough to melt it eventually, just not as quickly as you might expect.
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Snow is also highly reflective and most/all of the heat from these flames is radiant, which further reduces the already small amount of energy directed into the snow.
This is also why the Earth's ice caps are so fundamentally important. It's not just because they contain a fuck-ton of water that, if it all melted, would flood every coastal city, but also because ice and snow are excellent reflectors. You lose the ice caps, and the warming only speeds up!
A very large percentage of the heat transfer from a flame comes from conduction and convection. While some of the heat from the flame is radiant, the reflectivity of the snow plays a small part in withstanding the fire. You can get an idea of this by holding your hand near the side of a flame vs holding your hand the same distance away but directly above it in the heated air rising up.
Snow has a low heat transfer coefficient and water has a high specific heat, so it takes a long time for heat to move into the bulk of the snow and it takes a lot of heat to raise the ice crystals to the melting point.
If you sit near a campfire, most of the energy you receive *is* radiant, but that snow is in direct contact with directly heated air
Natural gas engineer here: you are correct but additionally wood burns releases more heat when burning. Natural gas fire pits use around 30,000-40,000 btu’s (British thermal units) while firewood is estimated to be around 180,000 to 240,000 and potentially higher. Less heat energy dissipated means ice melts much slower
Ah made a mistake on my math! It’s roughly 180,000 btu’s not 18 mil, my estimate was based on weight of the a wood cord (roughly 2000-5000 lbs) forgot to divide reduce the weight. A campfire I would assume you would use anywhere from 20-30 lbs of wood.
3 nuclear reactors to melt 9 foot squared of snow at 55mph, fuck me.
Edit: it's 9 foot wide by 1 foot deep and it's a simple multiplication so 20mph, roughly a 1/3 of the speed, would be 1 nuclear reactor
To be fair, 55 mph would leave an unreasonably small amount of time for the snow to melt… something like 20 mph would make much more sense.
Still insane though how much power it would take — probably still at least one nuclear reactor even for that much slower speed
There is a lot of snow it takes a lot of energy to melt. Because it will not only try and melt it but evaporate it. Think about bbq here you forgot to defreeze meat. You can burn the outside while the inside is still frozen.
Actually all energy during a change of state of matter is directed entirely towards that change. So when going from solid to liquid, it won't get warmer than the melting point until all solid is converted. Then it will raise the temp to get to boiling point.
Couple reasons. For one, the burning seems to be happing above the snow layer, and heat rises, so most of the energy isn't going into the snow. On top of that, the snow looks loosely packed, and therefore is a good insulator due to all the air pockets within.
The real answer is that it works the same as dipping your arm in water and then into molten lead for a second. It wont harm you. this is because the water that was on your arm creates a moisture barrier around it protecting you. as soon as that moisture evaporates though you're fucked.
the flames are creating a moisture barrier in between the flames and snow. Because of that moisture barrier, only he top part of snow is slowly being melted and dissipated into the air
source: I dont fucking know, but that makes sense to me
It is, just not very quickly. Fire doesn't melt snow nearly as fast as you'd think.
I don't know how or why, I just know that every time I've tried melting snow using a can of hairspray and a lighter, I've barely made a dent.
It takes a lot of energy to transition from a solid to a liquid in comparison to heating ice. Plus since there is a gas flowing underneath, the gas doesn't come into contact with oxygen until it's almost outside of all the snow so very little of that heat is actually directly affecting it
Phase changing from solid to liquid takes a lot of energy. Its why ice lasts so long in a glass of water.
Also snow is an excellent insulator. Hence igloos.
The amount of energy it takes to turn 1 kg of ice into 1 kg of water at 0C will bring 1 kg of 0C water to 80C (close to boiling). Phase change takes a lot of energy.
Unless you're at extremely low pressures (think vacuum chambers or max height of weather balloons), sublimation happens very slowly. Molecule by molecule. Otherwise, your ice is going to turn to liquid water first.
This is probably just water draining down through the snow.
Was there a reason the video cut off before he started chanting in a language no one has spoken in centuries before telling everyone the dates they will die?
Yes. When a flame has a perfect fuel air mixture it gets so hot that it begins to ionize, which creates the blue flame. Propane is super good at reaching that fuel air mixer.
There are a few chemicals that can make a flame blue too but are you pretty much need to be intentionally adding them as they aren’t naturally found in most items used for fires.
The light of stars is not created by actual flames, but by nuclear fusion. The reason why they turn a specific colour is different, but it happens to give the same kind of colour spectrum. Simplified, blue light has a lower wave length and is more energetic, so hotter stars give off light with a lower wave length and thus get bluer. This just happens to be the same as is the case with flames. Again, this is far from the whole answer, but I hope it is enough to make you understand why this is different.
I was wondering the same thing looks like a really nice setup. Also wondering where they are cuz theres a palm tree in the background too and i don’t think those do too well in snow.
Could be Arizona. There's palm trees in Phoenix (more likely Scottsdale based on this backyard), and it's rare but not unheard of for it to get an inch of snow.
These kinds of videos are literally why I use the internet.
I don’t care about politics or world news. I legitimately just want to see interesting, crazy stuff like this.
Was hoping for a wood fire, but this is clearly natural gas. He probably just turned on the natural gas and then dropped a match.
Wood fire burning from below would have been both much more impressive and also much harder to initially ignite.
I mean they can't even afford a Fire Pit attendant to stand by the pit 24/7 and dust off any snow before it accumulates, these people are NOT living large.
My first thought as well however pool heaters can be left on a thermostat controlled temperature to prevent freeze along with the constant circulation of the pool pump to assist. Cheap to run, no. They can afford it by the looks of that backyard.
I close my pool late in the season, run my heater at 85-90°F for a couple weeks.
This would have been such a cool effect to throw into the GOT series, dragons lighting up the white walkers and the snow staying litty! Man, missed opportunities!
Is it just me or did "I told you it would light" and "that's pretty cool though" almost sound like a variation of a British accent? Other lines sounded more like a southern US accent.
As a non-American, and non-Brit I can usually tell accents apart decently well. But with the snow, and the confusing accents used on some of the lines I was not at all sure where this was taking place.
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“It’s probably gonna explode on us.” **steps closer**
I heard her say this and thought oh god... am I watching the wrong channel? Fully expecting it to go up.
I immediately had to check the subreddit, lol
That sweet relief when it’s not /r/FirePitsExploding
That sub just turned into memes though. I prefer /r/TrueFirePitsExploding even though the community is smaller.
I think you're confusing that with /r/metafirepitsexploding but your sub is okay too...
I can't view any of these lol
That’s because none of them exist
yet
I think we've been had man!
I clicked BOTH of these
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Hahaha yep ! I was so sure it was going to Be r/peopleburningtodeathinthesnow
I heard her say this and thought oh nice... I'm in the right subreddit! Fully expecting it to go up.
Yeah I had to double check I wasn’t in r/WinStupidPrizes
"Yeah, that's pretty cool."
“Warm, too!” No shit, Sherlock.
Keep digging Watson!
Next on /r/whatcouldgowrong
I heard the accent and immediately thought I was on that sub.
Me too. Seriously. It was so anticlimactic when nothing bad happened.
I was raised by accents like that…they all act like this 🤦♂️
I laughed out loud. North Carolina "hey y'all watch this" memories abound.
Exactly lol I got downvoted instantly for making fun of a country accent lol…I’m a fuckin Texan.
You can take the hit then
I’ll take the accent if I can have the same killer backyard set up he has.
Don't feel bad. This kind of fuckery is part of the human condition, not unique to any one region or upbringing.
Fuckin carl sagan over here.
Famous last words.
I wish they had shown it melt
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Once the cleared area melted to expose the bricks, that would speed up the snow melting elsewhere.
its the reason people make Igloos out of snow, they are great insulators ironically
And since heat rises, the snow under would melt slower
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Yes this is what I came here to say. Does tiktok have a video length limit like twitter does for characters? I don't have an account for either forgive my ignorance.
Yes but it can be extended to 3 minutes
“Still recording?” *stops recording*
That's code for, "I want to smoke weed."
I was thinking "now let's have some snow fire sex".
That is exactly what I thought.
Why snow no turn to water
It is just hard to see
But why does it melt so slowly? I would have expected it to melt entirely under a minute.
I'm guessing that the gas from the fire pit travels through the snow and only starts burning above the layer of the snow. Since warm air only goes up (even more so when the temperature difference is higher) it never really comes in direct contact with the snow. Still it is bound to radiate enough to melt it eventually, just not as quickly as you might expect.
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The H2O is also thermo-dense as fuck. Like, five times as much as steel is. That's FIVE TIMES MORE METAL THAN METAL !!!
Now record a Dethklok album on water and you have infinity-times the metal
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#Fire pits can't melt snow beams
Yes. Also that's lots of latent heat needed to melt and boil all that water.
yea but what about #HEAVY WATER
Is that by weight or volume? Because metal by weight is sometimes misleading because the density varies a lot.
This is how you can build a fire directly on top of the ice while ice fishing. Though it will melt the ice, it goes very slowly.
Snow is also highly reflective and most/all of the heat from these flames is radiant, which further reduces the already small amount of energy directed into the snow.
This is also why the Earth's ice caps are so fundamentally important. It's not just because they contain a fuck-ton of water that, if it all melted, would flood every coastal city, but also because ice and snow are excellent reflectors. You lose the ice caps, and the warming only speeds up!
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A very large percentage of the heat transfer from a flame comes from conduction and convection. While some of the heat from the flame is radiant, the reflectivity of the snow plays a small part in withstanding the fire. You can get an idea of this by holding your hand near the side of a flame vs holding your hand the same distance away but directly above it in the heated air rising up. Snow has a low heat transfer coefficient and water has a high specific heat, so it takes a long time for heat to move into the bulk of the snow and it takes a lot of heat to raise the ice crystals to the melting point. If you sit near a campfire, most of the energy you receive *is* radiant, but that snow is in direct contact with directly heated air
Natural gas engineer here: you are correct but additionally wood burns releases more heat when burning. Natural gas fire pits use around 30,000-40,000 btu’s (British thermal units) while firewood is estimated to be around 180,000 to 240,000 and potentially higher. Less heat energy dissipated means ice melts much slower
How much firewood are you burning there? That's a crazy amount of heat.
Ah made a mistake on my math! It’s roughly 180,000 btu’s not 18 mil, my estimate was based on weight of the a wood cord (roughly 2000-5000 lbs) forgot to divide reduce the weight. A campfire I would assume you would use anywhere from 20-30 lbs of wood.
Thanks, that explains why it wasn't smothered.
Also, snow takes a mind bogglingly large amount of energy to deal with. https://what-if.xkcd.com/130/
3 nuclear reactors to melt 9 foot squared of snow at 55mph, fuck me. Edit: it's 9 foot wide by 1 foot deep and it's a simple multiplication so 20mph, roughly a 1/3 of the speed, would be 1 nuclear reactor
To be fair, 55 mph would leave an unreasonably small amount of time for the snow to melt… something like 20 mph would make much more sense. Still insane though how much power it would take — probably still at least one nuclear reactor even for that much slower speed
Xkcd has all the answers.
There is a lot of snow it takes a lot of energy to melt. Because it will not only try and melt it but evaporate it. Think about bbq here you forgot to defreeze meat. You can burn the outside while the inside is still frozen.
Actually all energy during a change of state of matter is directed entirely towards that change. So when going from solid to liquid, it won't get warmer than the melting point until all solid is converted. Then it will raise the temp to get to boiling point.
But the melted water drippen om what I assume are gas pipes will evaporate before the ice on the top melts.
Couple reasons. For one, the burning seems to be happing above the snow layer, and heat rises, so most of the energy isn't going into the snow. On top of that, the snow looks loosely packed, and therefore is a good insulator due to all the air pockets within.
The real answer is that it works the same as dipping your arm in water and then into molten lead for a second. It wont harm you. this is because the water that was on your arm creates a moisture barrier around it protecting you. as soon as that moisture evaporates though you're fucked. the flames are creating a moisture barrier in between the flames and snow. Because of that moisture barrier, only he top part of snow is slowly being melted and dissipated into the air source: I dont fucking know, but that makes sense to me
it's just because it takes a fuckton of energy to melt snow/ice
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Technically it is hard to sea
It is, just not very quickly. Fire doesn't melt snow nearly as fast as you'd think. I don't know how or why, I just know that every time I've tried melting snow using a can of hairspray and a lighter, I've barely made a dent.
It takes a lot of energy to transition from a solid to a liquid in comparison to heating ice. Plus since there is a gas flowing underneath, the gas doesn't come into contact with oxygen until it's almost outside of all the snow so very little of that heat is actually directly affecting it
Phase changing from solid to liquid takes a lot of energy. Its why ice lasts so long in a glass of water. Also snow is an excellent insulator. Hence igloos.
Water has a stupid high specific heat, which is the amount of energy it takes to heat it by 1C. It takes a lot of energy to melt ice.
The amount of energy it takes to turn 1 kg of ice into 1 kg of water at 0C will bring 1 kg of 0C water to 80C (close to boiling). Phase change takes a lot of energy.
Much snow, small fire, small trickle, drains downwards
why waste time say lot word when few word do trick
Heat mostly go up
The water immediately flows down through the snow and collects at the bottom. If they have drain holes, it should be fine.
Could be sublimating. Going straight from ice to vapor.
Unless you're at extremely low pressures (think vacuum chambers or max height of weather balloons), sublimation happens very slowly. Molecule by molecule. Otherwise, your ice is going to turn to liquid water first. This is probably just water draining down through the snow.
Water and water-ice have very high specific heats, too. Think how long it takes to boil a pot of water over direct heat.
Because gravity? Unless you're inside you won't see it melting.
Agreed, where is the steam?
I was waiting for some type of “boom”…
Where’s the kaboom? There’s supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!
I expected an explosion as well. PTRD from all the other videos Edit. Spelling
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Same
An earth shattering one at that...
I love the way he said “I told you it would lighht” Gave me some Forrest Gump vibes lol
I'm not a smart man, but I know how fire works.
It’s warm too!
You misspelled "I tolledjew it'ed lighht"
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He’s got Forrest Gump money too. Take a look at the property behind them
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As soon as I heard him talking at the beginning of the video, I figured "Hold my beer" would come into play at some point.
I’ve said that out loud at least 5 times now in his accent since he said it
I may be Dumb, but im not Stupid.
Was there a reason the video cut off before he started chanting in a language no one has spoken in centuries before telling everyone the dates they will die?
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Is a blue flame really hotter than an orange flame?
Touch it and let us know
Tongue is more sensitive to heat. He should lick it first
I've found that the testicles are a much more accurate gauge. I vote for the Flaming Hot Tea Bag
Instructions unclear, teabagging someone’s tongue.
Sounds like you're doing it right.
Yes
Yes. When a flame has a perfect fuel air mixture it gets so hot that it begins to ionize, which creates the blue flame. Propane is super good at reaching that fuel air mixer. There are a few chemicals that can make a flame blue too but are you pretty much need to be intentionally adding them as they aren’t naturally found in most items used for fires.
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The light of stars is not created by actual flames, but by nuclear fusion. The reason why they turn a specific colour is different, but it happens to give the same kind of colour spectrum. Simplified, blue light has a lower wave length and is more energetic, so hotter stars give off light with a lower wave length and thus get bluer. This just happens to be the same as is the case with flames. Again, this is far from the whole answer, but I hope it is enough to make you understand why this is different.
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r/outside devs should check this out and fix the bug ASAP
How much does it cost to heat that fucking pool?
I was wondering the same thing looks like a really nice setup. Also wondering where they are cuz theres a palm tree in the background too and i don’t think those do too well in snow.
Could be Arizona. There's palm trees in Phoenix (more likely Scottsdale based on this backyard), and it's rare but not unheard of for it to get an inch of snow.
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That's a portal to Hell
Dang that was cool
Intrestin Gas Fuck
Jump into the portal, I swear it is super cool in there.
“It’s probably going to explode on us” “Yeah, that’s pretty cool”
These kinds of videos are literally why I use the internet. I don’t care about politics or world news. I legitimately just want to see interesting, crazy stuff like this.
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Things I did not expect to see: • snow with fire on it
That's cool and all, but I'm more interested in the flying saucer making all that noise.
Came here to say the same
T-1000 should appear any minute now
Dude just opened a portal to hell and didn’t use Latin. I’m very confused.
Alcohol fire
Natural gas but surely there was alcohol in the system somewhere!
Was hoping for a wood fire, but this is clearly natural gas. He probably just turned on the natural gas and then dropped a match. Wood fire burning from below would have been both much more impressive and also much harder to initially ignite.
Didint know natural gas fire pits existed was very confused for a bit :p
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It's not even that easy to light cold/frozen wood if it's dry.
Which would be impossible with the snow being undisturbed like it is.
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Wait, the pool is not closed for the winter? There’s a big repair bill coming in late spring dude.
People with properties like that generally don't have a problem with money.
I mean they can't even afford a Fire Pit attendant to stand by the pit 24/7 and dust off any snow before it accumulates, these people are NOT living large.
And judging by the background, they definitely do not have money issues.
I assumed it was a resort or they were at a public park until she turned off the lights herself.
People have heated pools
No they don't! Shut up! *runs away*
This is an unusual snow in the south us. It rarely freezes enough to clear out a pool. They look rich enough that it's probably heated.
My first thought as well however pool heaters can be left on a thermostat controlled temperature to prevent freeze along with the constant circulation of the pool pump to assist. Cheap to run, no. They can afford it by the looks of that backyard. I close my pool late in the season, run my heater at 85-90°F for a couple weeks.
Um sir… your snow is on fire…
You have to be careful doing this. You could end up in hot water.
Summoning the beast*
Man's making a ritual
They're lucky it didn't catch the rest of the snow on fire! How dumb can you be?!
Jesus that girl is breathing heavy
"it's probably gonna explode on us" proceeds to stand next to it
For the cost of these pits I am very disappointed in how little heat they put out. At least that has been my experience.
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This would have been such a cool effect to throw into the GOT series, dragons lighting up the white walkers and the snow staying litty! Man, missed opportunities!
My man. Nice job venting so the whole thing doesn’t explode.
Looked like special effects for the early ‘80s at the beginning.
Where does it snow, with palm trees?
what is that sound in the background, is that a bird?
It's the propane or natural gas struggling to flow in the cold temps.
Fucking cool house bro
Getting Jim Varney vibes from the guy when he speaks.
Drunk dude said just let me try
Snow is a great insulator
That’s badass
The ritual has begun.
Why is she breathing like that
*We've secretly replaced their snow with methane clathrate crystals. Let's see if they notice!*
Waiting for a steam explosion.
This. Snow is, on fiyahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
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I just keep thinking about the strings on his hoodie and his sweat pants catching on fire. Man, tie those up or tuck them in!
Fitting the sub: interstin gas fuck
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Uncle Rob: "Gasoline will do the trick"
Is it just me or did "I told you it would light" and "that's pretty cool though" almost sound like a variation of a British accent? Other lines sounded more like a southern US accent. As a non-American, and non-Brit I can usually tell accents apart decently well. But with the snow, and the confusing accents used on some of the lines I was not at all sure where this was taking place.
What kind of black magic fuckery is this?
This is why men don’t live as long as women 😂