In North America, most of the US and much of Canada observe Daylight Saving Time and in Europe, most of Western Europe observes Daylight Saving Time but there are notable exceptions such as Arizona and Hawaii in the US, Saskatchewan and parts of Ontario in Canada and Iceland.
So, to maximize the amount of pressure and thus the distance you can shoot the carbon dioxide, you can: 1  Minimize the volume of the container (V). 2  Using a larger bottle may make it easier for you to complete the project, but it won't improve the distance of your homemade fire extinguisher.
1 Water extinguishers work by removing heat from the fire.  Dry chemical extinguishers are tanks of foam or dry powder with compressed nitrogen as the propellant. They work by smothering the fire: when you put a layer of powder or foam on the fire, you cut the fuel off from the oxygen around it, and the fire goes out.