There were some strange things about the alleged wildfire at Lahaina, Hawaii. Notably, the spokesman who explained what happened was NOT a fire official or anyone from the local government with any knowledge of fire fighting or emergencies. Instead, we find Major General Kenneth Hara, the commanding general of the Hawaii Army National Guard. He stated that he did not know what ignited the fires. But he opined that low humidity and high winds “set the conditions for the wildfires.” He is an army general; what does he know about forest fires?
Erm, not an American here, but isn’t the National Guard a reserve force for which disaster relief is one of their main peacetime duties?
There is reason to question the general’s claim. The wildfire would ojnly make sense if a forest of trees surrounded the city of Lahaina. That is the first problem with the story. There gfs no forest near the town. Indeed, the satellite photo below shows that the tallest trees near the city belong to the Maui Kuaia Estate Cacao Farm. Cacao trees are pretty small ranging in height between 13 and 26 feet【8 m】. But those trees are across a highway several hundred yards from the nearest building.
…why the hell would a wildfire require trees, let alone tall trees??? Have you ever heard of “grass” or “underbrush”?
What about the trees within the city itself? There are lots of trees in the town. But when we look at the photos of the city after the alleged fire, we find that the trees in the town are mainly intact. Strangely buildings that have been destroyed allegedly by fire are surrounded by trees untouched by flames.
Strange, I looked up photos of Lahaima, and those trees do NOT look intact and untouched by fire at all. Indeed, they look pretty charred and dead to me. Yes, unlike the buildings, they are still standing, but I would think that has far more to do with factors like living trees consisting of compact water-suffused hard tissue rather than being complex hollow structures constructed with major components each consisting of materials that are either dead, dry and combustible or that soften and deform under intense heat, NOT some exotic techno-magic that just does not affect wood - indeed, an at times considerable number of burnt-out tree husks remaining standing is pretty common in forest fires. Especially if we keep in mind that there are trees, especially in hot arid climates where wildfires are a common natural occurence, which to me would not seem implausible to be planted in a Hawai’an beach town (note that most of Hawai’i’s native flora went extinct when humans settled, and what remains is endangered relic populations) have defences against fire.
hat something else is directed energy. The buildings were destroyed by directed energy weapons. Directed energy weapons use microwaves.
”Directed energy” is not a specific form of energy. It is called “directed-energy weapons” because you ‘just point’ the energy you want to imflict on the target, in contrast to projectile weapons, and the term covers a very wide array of mostly hypothetical, impractical and fictional mechanisms, not just microwave weapons.
They cause molecular destruction of materials that absorb them; wood remains unfazed because wood absorbs very little microwave radiation. It is similar to how you can put a paper plate in a microwave oven without concern that it will catch fire. But if you put aluminum foil into that same microwave oven, it will quickly begin to spark and burst into flames.
- No, microwaves excite - that is, increase the movement of - certain materials (including water, fats, tec.), meaning an increase in temperature. If hot enough, that could cause proteins to denaturate or provide the activation energy for ignition. However, I presume that by “molecular destruction of materials”, you mean something far more exotic and science-fictional than good old chemical reactions. In which case, I doubt it could be
- Paper is just dead, dry cellulose. Trees are living organisms full of water. Perhaps your proposed Giant Microwave Death Ray might (might) not necessarily cause trees to incinerate, but the boiling would certainly kill the trees and probably also cause them to be explode as seen with trees struck by lightning.
- Aluminium is actually safe to microwave if handled properly - make sure the foil is smooth, not crumpled (it is the crumpling that causes the induced currents to spark) and that is does not touch the walls of the oven (which can lead to toxic fumes).
- I am not sure how well the processes in the chamber of a microwave oven are applicable to a city-destroying microwave weapon, anyways. Not all that well, I suspect.
- How were these weapons deployed, anyways?
- The houses look like they were primarily constructed from wood themselves.