Talk:Firebending/@comment-110.55.5.110-20120315000404/@comment-4888161-20120412115008

Heat doesn't necesarrily equal wind. Why do you think there are so many hot still days? The scale of heating to wind required for your theories on firebenders and wind to be true would be enourmous. The equivilant of that scale applied to the world would also mean that just lighting the fire place would create a gail force wind inside the house. That is not only phisically impossible but rediculous. Even the scale is rediculous. To move the air molecules that much, they would have to use heat on a level so extreme that it would explode.

Even in the warmest environments, there isn't enough heat already available in the atmoshpere to be manipulated to effect it in the way you are saying. The firebender would have to add their own heat. In fact, they would have to add more heat over a large area then any firebender would be capable of. And even if they could (which they can't) add that much heat over miles and miles of atmosphere (way outside any firebenders range) required for this theory to work, the atmoshpere couldn't retain it all and would release it in an explosion.

Heat itself simply isn't what creates wind. Since firebenders can't control the air in the atmophere like airbenders, the scale in which they would have to heat it up to get it moving would be far beyond what they could do. What little they might be able to do with wind, wouldn't be impactful with the wind at all.