"2BLEVE" Burning Man Fireball explosion 2006

By far the most impressive and short lived fire display this year at Burning Man 06, in my opinion. Created by Nate Smith, fire artist extraordinaire (www.fire-art.com), this display lasted only 10 seconds, but I got it on video- capturing the essence of approx. 250 gallons of fuel releasing upwards into the air- needless to say by hearing the audio- we were all impressed! Thanks Nate! By the way, "2BLEVE" stands for "2 boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions", can you tell?

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Film & Animation

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• burning
• man
• fire

[sallyesq]

beautiful! does anybody know which fuel they used? petrol?

[Jimbocurtis]

50% whatever they could find flammable and then pressurized the rest of the tank with liquid petroleum (propane)

it was awesome, to say the least.

[1mile2go]

What was it High pressure natural gas with a JP-4 mixture thrown in for good measure?

[Jimbocurtis]

it was a mixture of propane and anything flammable- booze, lighter fluid, biodiesel, etc. call it a community effort.

ha

[SouthAussie93]

lol, man its not that big of a deal, its just a big explosion. That guy in the background saying "OHHH MYY GODD!" lol he probably has never seen a huge fireworks display ^^

[Jimbocurtis]

i gather you werent there... correct?

the shock and heat wave alone was enough to scare people to the point of soiling their undergarments.

nothing on video looks as "good" or feels the same as witnessing it in person. if you were there, you'd see what all the screaming is about. That thing set off a low pressure shock wave that could be felt 2 miles away!

but thanks for your comment anyhow.

[KrykoStorm]

What happened to going green?

[thevideosofwalt]

Oh my god! Haha

[fuxseb]

Get a strong firecracker, pour some petrol in a PE foil bag, put this in PVC pipe, and stir...

The firecracker should be under this bag, and should be fired up electrically.

Don't do this at home ;)

[noodiethetiger]

That is amazing!....

[TopFrontBack]

Awesome. Any idea how it was done?

[mrpndo]

amazing.

[monkeymirror]

Looks like what came out of my ass late last night!

[ShivelMoKivel]

I can do better.

[claudetheedragon]

Hey my dragon needs those!!

[ViktorValentine]

That looks fucking huge!!!