President Donald Trump told Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele he wanted to send "homegrown criminals" to El Salvador next and encouraged Bukele to build more prisons.
The thing with the flour soaked in diesel really wouldn’t work.
If you want to do anything with flour you have to disperse it in the air and then ignite it, so that you can take advantage of the huge surface area of the particles mixed into the ready supply of oxygen in the air. If you want to see how this sort of thing goes down, look up grain silo explosions which is precisely this but happening by accident. Getting the stuff wet will turn it into a gloopy pasty mess which is totally counterproductive for this sort of thing.
Related rando fun fact: The deep orange and red, smoky, mushroomy fireballs you see erupting out of the ground in movies/TV/Top Gear/etc. are dispersed powder explosions typically made with a lift charge and a small amount of powdered non-dairy coffee creamer.
The thing with the flour soaked in diesel really wouldn’t work.
If you want to do anything with flour you have to disperse it in the air and then ignite it, so that you can take advantage of the huge surface area of the particles mixed into the ready supply of oxygen in the air. If you want to see how this sort of thing goes down, look up grain silo explosions which is precisely this but happening by accident. Getting the stuff wet will turn it into a gloopy pasty mess which is totally counterproductive for this sort of thing.
Related rando fun fact: The deep orange and red, smoky, mushroomy fireballs you see erupting out of the ground in movies/TV/Top Gear/etc. are dispersed powder explosions typically made with a lift charge and a small amount of powdered non-dairy coffee creamer.