Don't saturate it with liquid oxygen or you and everyone in the county will
also get cooked.  The technique involved pouring liquid oxygen on the bricks
while a very small flame was at the bottom.  
See http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/oldindex.html for the details. (Google works
again)

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Hoffmann [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 4:58 PM
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Subject: Re: OT: rotating blackouts ordered for NorthernCalifor nia


Only problem was they also burned up the BBQ pit as well.   It was pretty
cool
though,  I think it took about 3 seconds to light the charcoal.

Richard

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> Now, if I could just remember that web site.... These guys had a contest
> about the most spectacular way to ignite a barbeque full of charcoal.  The
> winner saturated it in liquid oxygen....
>
> BTW - Mr. McVeigh's methods were well documented decades earlier in the
> DuPont Blaster's Handbook.
>
> -d
/<SNIP>/