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To: TimF who wrote (8732)	8/12/2008 1:33:51 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

If the Hinderburg was filled with gasoline then (if it had somehow gotten to the site at all, since it wouldn't be able to fly) the disaster would have been worse. For one, it's a misconception that Hydrogen had anything to do with the Hindenburg tragedy. It's been demonstrated that the doping use on the canvas skin was quite likely the culprit. In support of Bain's theory that the fire was started by the fabric's flammability in a charged atmosphere were two letters that he discovered in a German archive. The letters were written in 1937 by Otto Beyerstock, an electrical engineer who had incinerated pieces of Hindenburg fabric during electrical tests conducted at the direction of the Zeppelin Company. Beyerstock ruled out the idea that hydrogen could have started the fire. He asserted that the same outcome would have occurred if a similar craft flew under the same atmospheric conditions but with noncombustible helium instead of hydrogen as the lifting fuel. As a matter of fact, Bain discovered that such a fire did occur in California in 1935 when a helium-filled airship with an acetate-aluminum skin burned near Point Sur. esdjournal.com seas.ucla.edu Should we stop buying Chinese TVs and DVD players? I don't think TV's or DVD sales impact the consumer in the same fashion as petrochemicals. To have a robust economy, we must have access to relatively cheap energy. Hawk