The Silent Explosion (Paperback)

Langue : anglais

Edité par Expedition Publishers, 2026

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Paperback. Somewhere near you right now, something is releasing a genuinely dangerous amount of energy. It is not on fire. It is not making a sound. You would walk past it without a second glance.That rusting fence post is quietly burning, in the exact chemical sense a campfire burns, just slowly enough that no one has ever needed a fire extinguisher for it. That phone charging on your nightstand holds enough stored energy to fail catastrophically in under sixty seconds, and it gives almost no warning before it does. That bale of hay in a farmer's barn can reach four hundred degrees and burst into flame with no match, no wiring fault, no spark of any kind. And deep beneath your feet, the entire planet is radiating forty seven trillion watts of continuous heat, silently, every second, from a furnace that has been running since before there was anyone around to notice it.Anton Kesting spent years chasing this one strange, hidden pattern across chemistry, physics, and engineering, and what he found reshapes something most people have never thought to question: that power announces itself with noise. It does not. Sound is only what happens when energy escapes fast enough to shove the air out of the way. Take away the speed, and some of the most explosive forces on Earth become completely undetectable to human senses, right up until the moment they are not.The Silent Explosion takes you inside the real, documented history of these quiet catastrophes and the quiet marvels beside them. The plutonium canister that has powered a spacecraft for over four decades without a single moving part. The Boeing 787 battery fire that grounded a global fleet, and the seventeen billion dollar phone recall that followed it eight years later. The Hoover Dam engineers who buried six hundred miles of pipe inside wet concrete because the curing chemistry alone would have taken over a century to cool on its own. The grain elevator explosion that no one saw coming because the danger had been settling silently in the rafters for months.Every chapter is built on real data, real investigations, and real incidents, from NASA mission records to National Transportation Safety Board reports, written with the pace and clarity of a story you cannot put down rather than a lecture you have to get through. You will never look at a rusting nail, a charging phone, or a bag of fertilizer the same way again.This is not a book about being afraid of the world. It is a book about finally seeing it clearly, and once you do, you will understand exactly why the loudest dangers were never the only ones worth knowing about.Read it in a day. You will want to. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

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Titre
The Silent Explosion (Paperback)
Auteur
Anton Kesting
Éditeur
Expedition Publishers
Année de publication
2026
État de l'article
new
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Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9798235558564

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