Italian Grocer Deploys ‘Scan and Bag’-Style Technology

[Robb]

60. Sure. But insufficiently.

The yahoo in the video up there is giving a good example -- an open half-filled container of gasoline with plenty of space above it for vaporous gasoline to gather -- yet it doesn't gather in a sufficient concentration to overcome the other problems, like atmospheric pressure and starting temperature.

You're a pilot; what's more dangerous than no information from an instrument? Bad information. What's worse than bad information? Incomplete information.

You're going to see lower hot-surface (e.g. flameless) ignition points for vapor from higher-octane gasoline (av gas, for example), and at higher atmospheric pressure, and on hot days, etc. But you're not going to get there in open spaces, no matter how much gas you spill.

You can probably hot-surface-ignite av gas at around 500 degrees inside an unventilated lab hood. But you can pour gas on a 500 degree engine manifold all day long and not start a fire.