Don,
Temper, temper. Mr. Nielson may simply be not the sharpest knife in the drawer, and not a traitor at all. :)
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I've got some quibbling to do with your talking points. Here goes:
Some other points you may wish to consider:
1. Kerosene does not burn hot enough by half to melt steel.
Steel starts to lose tensile strength well below the melt temperature. From what I have been able to determine, kerosene can actually create enough heat to cause deformation of A36 steel members.
2. All of the steel columns were encased in concrete.
This is not the case at the WTC towers. They were only protected by 2-hour rated Gypsum Wallboard Cladding which would have been stripped away (to an extent) by flying debris on the impact floors, exposing the steel directly to the flame.
3. The steel trusses were in direct contact with concrete or were wrapped in insulation with a 2 hour fire rating.
The spray on fireproofing protecting the underside of the trusses is a very fragile material that is easily stripped away by mechanical agitation. As with the GWB cladding, the fire protection on the underside of the trusses was not very robust in the face of the massive damage caused by the breakup of the jet aircraft.
4. It's fantastically difficult to melt steel in direct contact with concrete because the concrete draws the heat away from the point you're trying to melt.
Concrete and steel have approximately the same coeffiecient of expansion, and both transmit heat at pretty much the same rate. And furthermore, the steel was not encased in concrete, as explained above.
5. If you dump 30 stories worth of powdered concrete on a fuel fire, the fire will go out.
6. If you find molten steel under the pile a month after the the floor where the fire was located, 80 stories above that point was reduced to powder, a secondary cause is required to explain the fact.
So far, we have only a couple of eye-witness reports to this effect. The Kean Commission is desperately needed to investigate this extremely serious allegation. But we appear to have little or no interest in this subject matter by the Commission. This, in and of itself, is a huge red flag. |
