Here's another reason the 9/11 fire-mediated collapse theory has to be wrong.
Source: http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_joseph_s_070522_oh_yeah_2c_here_s_anot.htm
May 23, 2007
Here's another reason the 9/11 fire-mediated collapse theory has to be wrong.
By jpsmith123
The notion that the WTC towers collapsed because fire weakened the steel is laughable.
The fact that other steel-framed, steel-cored buildings have suffered much longer burning, much larger in extent and, demonstrably, hotter
fires, and yet never collapsed, shows how difficult it is in practice to bring down one of these buildings from fire.
Apparently, these buildings are robust structures, highly over-built to handle heavy wind loads; and it seems you would need to heat a large volume of steel, uniformly, over a wide cross-sectional area of the structure, to even have a chance of making one collapse in the neat, symmetrical manner witnessed (to the extent it is even, theoretically, possible to do this without resorting to explosives in the first place).
The easiest way to see that these buildings were rigged for demolition is to start by considering the fact that, between the time Flt. 175 hit WTC2 and the time the building collapsed, only 56 minutes had elapsed. And 56 minutes, simply, isn't enough time to develop a fire hot enough, nor large enough in extent, to even have a remote chance of getting enough steel hot enough to be a factor.
The best way to see the absurdity of the fire-mediated collapse theory is to make some simplifying assumptions...and apply some simple math and physics to the problem.
Say, for the sake of argument, that you’re concerned with one floor of the building. Assuming that you have an unlimited supply of readily combustible fuel available (which is, obviously, not true, but let's be generous), and there is no heat loss by convection, conduction or radiation (another ridiculous assumption, but let's give the shills every advantage).
Now, the rate at which the temperature rises on that floor will be determined by the composite thermal mass of the building materials associated with that floor, and the rate at which you can bring in oxygen to burn the fuel. Assuming, say, about 5E5 kg of steel, and about 1.4E6 kg of concrete, per floor (taking internet based numbers at face value), with specific heats of about 450 and 3300 J/kg*C, respectively, simple algebra shows that you would have to release about 3.27E12 Joules of energy to uniformly bring the temperature from ambient up to, say, 700 degrees C (starting to get into the interesting range, but probably still not high enough to cause a collapse).
The problem is that for WTC2, you have to release this huge amount of energy in only 56 minutes. That means you would have to burn somewhere on the order of 30,000 gallons of jet fuel in 56 minutes. That means you would have to supply air to the fire inside the building at a rate somewhere in the neighborhood of 6E5 cubic feet per minute.
That's right, in order to bring the temperature of one floor of a WTC tower from 25 to 700 degrees centigrade, uniformly, in a short 56-minute time frame, you would have to supply about 600,000 cubic feet of air per minute...for each of those 56 minutes. And that’s a ridiculously high number. And even if you did find a way to create such blast furnace like conditions, the fact of the matter is that you would convect a significant portion of the heat away, just like what happens in a fireplace; in order to let fresh air in, you have to let the heated, oxygen-depleted air escape.
If you were lucky, and the process was, say, 50% efficient (meaning the airflow only carried away half your heat), you would need to double everything, which would mean burning 60,000 gallons of jet fuel in 56 minutes, while feeding the fire with over one million cubic feet of air per minute.
By way of the above numbers, the absurdity of the "official" version of events is laid bare for all to see.
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Thank you
This is great. Want some suggestion?
Find another phrase to replace "lets give the shills every advantage", as I am sick and tired of them HAVING every advantage already.
Provide some comparison air flows for people who cannot imagine what 6E5 cubic feet a minute would look like (is it the exhaust from a Boeing negine or is it the entire volume of the upper atmosphere's jet stream?
Other simplifications might involve footnote that show the scientific notation into actual numbers, so that even the people at Fox might be able to comprehend it. .
Question, some people argue that 270 degrees (celsius - to give her every advantage) is the interesting range (Eliabeth on the View), so can you explain why 270 deg C is stupid or explain the results if that input was used?
Also wouldn't hurt to footnote the equations that you use for those not in the know.
In any event, I think this is an important contribution and it's beauty is due to its elegance. Thank you!
Nice info in that post
and I agree with Romill, maybe show some of the physics maths in the post.
I am a big fan of "freefall trumps all", for the main reason, it does. :)
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9/11 was an INSIDE JOB
I once knew a structural engineer named Joe Smith...
I once knew a structural engineer named Joe Smith and this got me thinking...
Why not commission a poll of Structural Engineers as to what they believed happened on 9/11? Of course, it would be nice to ensure that the engineers polled had a real idea of what happened that day. Perhaps the questions could be something like this:
"How many buildings came down in NYC on 9/11?"
Of those that answered three, then ask
"Have you seen video clips of WTC7?"
Then ask,
"Based upon the videos and the evidence you may have seen, why do ytou think WTC7 came down?
Fire or CD?"
I'm not a pollster - just thinking out loud. Comments?
http://westchester911truth.org
"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." Thomas Paine
Free Fall!
Focus on the speed of the demolition wave. Even less to argue about.
Or you could just quote
the building designers:
The World Trade Center Building Designers: Pre-9/11 claims strongly implicate that the Towers should have remained standing on 9/11
http://arabesque911.blogspot.com/2007/05/world-trade-center-building-des...
“We're an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality."
Only one floor in WTC 1
even had a full perimeter fire and that fire did not spread to the floor above or below before the collapse. That means the firewalls between floors held. Nor was there any sign of the perimeter wall steel starting to bend or fail.
In WTC 2, not one single floor developed into a full perimeter fire. As a matter of fact, the entire west side of the building showed no signs of fire, except for one small spot that had some smoke. Also, the fires on the southside of the building were mostly burnt out by the time the building collapsed.
There is no way the Twin Towers failed because of the fire from the impact of the planes.
(Right click to see entire image)
WTC 2 moments before collapse.
http://www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topics&foru...
~ 20 min fires in any given location
I believe even NIST agreed that fires lasted for only about 20 minutes in any given location in the towers. How do you get any steel member to dramatically weaken under these conditions?