In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled MORE EVIDENCE - 2 Miles from Lahaina Fire A Melted Car Surrounded by Gravel! D.E.W. or What? (IMAGES from video and video links), marktwain wrote: I have seen a lot of cars that were set on fire, deliberately. That is what they look like. Lots of flammable stuff inside a car.
The windshield melts at a temperature of 2200 degrees Farenheit. This was not the result a molotov cocktail. The heat level required does not match 'cars set on fire' and the heat would have to be sustained for a long time to get this level of damage. Grassfires top out at 700 Degrees. Look at the pics - very little grass and not all of it burned. With a fire that hot everything would be blackened.
A vehicle fire can generate heat upwards of 1,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
The average forest fire sends temperatures rocketing up past 800 degrees Celsius (1,472 degrees Fahrenheit), hot enough to cremate a human or melt a camera.
The heat from a car when it’s on fire may cause the windows to break, but there are examples of car windows melting in the heat of a fire. Wildfires can reach temperatures in the range at which glass can burn.
Can we stop this nonsense now, nutjobs used to get banned from this site, Michael Rivero comes to mind, and there were others. Enough with this D.E.W. nonsense!
“The windshield melts at a temperature of 2200 degrees Fahrenheit”
Silica melts at that temp, but windshields are only 60 to 70% silica. Other materials are added to bring the melt point down to 1000F to reduce the energy costs in manufacturing. The plastic safety coating also contributes to the melting of windshields when it burns off in a fully involved car fire.