Prof Guillermo Rein. 🔥
@GuillermoRein
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Engineer & Professor of Fire Science at Imperial College. Editor @FireTechnology. Alumnus of UC Berkeley, and ICAI. Leading @ImperialHazelab.
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Joined July 2012
I write mostly about fires 🔥, science 📚and engineering ⚙️. This is my thread of top threads:.
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RT @vanesamolinafde: Y esto amigos,es una descarga de un avión pesado en un incendio forestal. Imaginad a cualquier persona ajena al dispos….
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Leaseholders' court victory over fire safety costs. "A retrospective approach provides for effective routes to redress against those responsible for historical building safety defects that have only recently come to light” .
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The Court of Appeal ruling could have implications for who bears the costs of building safety.
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RT @SustainableTall: I can understand the call for the UK and Europe installing more air-conditioning (it’s got hotter!) . But, if that’s t….
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RT @OperadorNuclear: Una cúpula de acero de 245 toneladas, más ancha que la de la catedral de San Pablo, ha sido colocada con precisión mil….
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Fire safety laws due 10 years after Grenfell blaze
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People in flats will know who is accountable for keeping them safe from fire, under the plans.
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Heartbreaking to see more wildfire evacuations in Spain. Even more worrying: these evacuations are dire, triggered too late, when it is already dangerous to be outdoors. Early warning and preparedness save lives.
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Spanish authorities estimate that 2,500 hectares (25sq km) of land have been affected in the Toledo region.
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RT @EjercitoAire: Actuación de nuestros corsarios del @43grupo_ea en el incendio forestal de Méntrida #IFMéntrida . Excelente labor, corsar….
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RT @PopCrave: A fire has broken out on the Tomorrowland mainstage just one day before the festival is set to begin.
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RT @PeteApps: Have done a few presentations to 16/17 year olds on Grenfell in Sixth Forms. I've found erudite, engaged, curious and free th….
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RT @43grupo_ea: Nuestros corsarios ya trabajan en la extinción del incendio forestal de Méntrida (Toledo) con 2 Canadair. #IFMéntrida https….
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RT @GalvezRivas: Bomberos de Londres @LondonFire ha combatido más incendios forestales en lo que va de verano que en todo 2024 https://t.co….
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RT @volcaholic1: BREAKING: Tomorrowland's main stage is on fire. The large-scale annual electronic dance music festival which is being he….
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RT @VctorManueFdez: ➡️ Imágenes antiguas pero que nos sirven para observar la velocidad de propagación de un #IIFF con un paveseo important….
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“In 1606 Jerónimo de Ayanz y Beaumont patented his invention of the first steam-powered water pump for draining mines.[2] Thomas Savery is considered the inventor of the first commercially used steam powered device”.
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En el siglo XVII, un español inventó el traje de buceo, el motor de vapor, el sistema de ventilación de minas y hasta un prototipo de submarino. Y, sin embargo, casi nadie recuerda su nombre. Esta es la historia del Da Vinci español: Jerónimo de Ayanz. Tira del hilo 🧵👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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London Fire Brigade (LFB) has fought more wildfires so far this summer than in the whole of 2024, a senior firefighter has said.
bbc.co.uk
London Fire Brigade says it has fought more wildfires so far this summer than in the whole of 2024.
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RT @firesciphil: And in case you are interested in the how’s and why’s of UK wildfire, read @GuillermoRein’s fantastic paper on the topic.….
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Fire Technology - In the summer of 2022, a series of heatwaves caused an unprecedented wave of wildfires across the UK. London, in particular, was badly affected. Its green spaces wilted, and the...
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