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Old 16th October 2010, 03:16 PM   #761
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you're supposed to answer questions with questions!

Originally Posted by BigAl View Post
When plastic rugs and furniture burns what happens ?
What happens when these things burn, and you don't have a line of sight to them, like when they are in the center of a building 20 floors above your head, and you're busy working and looking the other way?

How's that?

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A smoldering fire and a raging fire are just as hot.
No kidding. I forget who it was here, that kept not understanding the barbeque analogy.
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Old 16th October 2010, 03:16 PM   #762
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Originally Posted by BigAl View Post
A smoldering fire and a raging fire are just as hot.
Which is why you can roast weenies over a smoking, green-wood camp fire?
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Old 16th October 2010, 03:19 PM   #763
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Originally Posted by ergo View Post
You see flames.
Wrong again. Stinking black smoke, mostly.

This is the second time you've been shown this.

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...A fire in a building with modern fittings and materials generates smoke that is thick and black, obscures vision, causes great difficulty in breathing and can block the escape routes.
From:

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Price .12.00 (free to download below)


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Old 16th October 2010, 03:20 PM   #764
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NIST, after their many years of study of these newly publicly released videos and photographs concluded that no structural damage from WTC1 contributed to the collapse of WTC7.

If it should turn out to be otherwise NIST will have even more questions to provide inventive answers for.
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Old 16th October 2010, 03:22 PM   #765
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Big Al, burning synthetics still produces flames.
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Old 16th October 2010, 03:24 PM   #766
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And anyway, fire seeks combustible material. It doesn't limit itself to a few rooms out of politeness. The WTC 7 "burned", as you yourselves say, for 6 hours.
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Old 16th October 2010, 03:24 PM   #767
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Originally Posted by bill smith View Post
NIST, after their many years of study of these newly publicly released videos and photographs concluded that no structural damage from WTC1 contributed to the collapse of WTC7.

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Correct. Unfought fire caused the collapse.
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Old 16th October 2010, 03:25 PM   #768
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And then for an unfought fire in a steel-frame building, the building probably collapses. WTC7 did.
Smouldering fires do not radiate much heat Al.
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Old 16th October 2010, 03:30 PM   #769
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Originally Posted by bill smith View Post
Smouldering fires do not radiate much heat Al.
Simplify much?

Temperature is a function of input (combustion) and output (convection, radiation and conduction). An enclosed smoldering fire can be as hot as open flame.
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Originally Posted by BigAl View Post
Simplify much?

Temperature is a function of input (combustion) and output (convection, radiation and conduction). An enclosed smoldering fire can be as hot as open flame.
ask the smithy.

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Old 16th October 2010, 03:34 PM   #771
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Originally Posted by BigAl View Post
Simplify much?

Temperature is a function of input (combustion) and output (convection, radiation and conduction).
Lol. Which is why smoldering fires don't produce the same amount of heat.
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Originally Posted by BigAl View Post
Simplify much?

Temperature is a function of input (combustion) and output (convection, radiation and conduction). An enclosed smoldering fire can be as hot as open flame.
Yes, but as you know that fiery heart is generally enclosed in a cooler exterior. If a steel girder for instance passed through the heart of fire that fire wouldn't burn for long because all the heat would soon be wicked aaway by the hundred-miles long contiguous steel frame of the building.
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I don't think you guys understand the relationship between smoke and fire
Where there is smoke, there is fire. Always. Unless it's fake smoke.

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When you try to burn green or wet wood in a campfire, what happens?
The heat from the fire turns the water to steam, producing a "white" smoke.

It's steam mixed with smoke. Hence, the change in color.
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Originally Posted by ergo View Post
Lol. Which is why smoldering fires don't produce the same amount of heat.
Temperature is a function of input (combustion) and output (convection, radiation and conduction).

A smoldering fire deep inside WTC7 will have little convection and all the radiation and conduction will heat the steel and concrete and after some hours cause the steel frame to collapse.
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Which is why you can roast weenies over a smoking, green-wood camp fire?
Sure, if you want nasty tasting hot dogs.
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Lol. Which is why smoldering fires don't produce the same amount of heat.
Is it your claim now that there was not enough fuel in building 7 (Areas NIST predicted) to support the fires of the reported duration?
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Yes, but as you know that fiery heart is generally enclosed in a cooler exterior. If a steel girder for instance passed through the hreart of fire that fire wouldn't burn for long because all the heat would soon be wicked aaway by the hundred-miles long contiguous steel frame of the building.
On your planet maybe.
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Simplify much?

Temperature is a function of input (combustion) and output (convection, radiation and conduction). An enclosed smoldering fire can be as hot as open flame.
Exactly. They don't understand how blacksmiths work either.
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Originally Posted by triforcharity View Post

The heat from the fire turns the water to steam, producing a "white" smoke.

It's steam mixed with smoke. Hence, the change in color.
No. Green wood produces a thick, acrid smoke.
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On your planet maybe.
You can always show us pictures of smouldering fires from your planet. But will we be impressed by their ferocity ?
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Is it your claim now that there was not enough fuel in building 7 (Areas NIST predicted) to support the fires of the reported duration?
How do you get that conclusion from reading the last page of posts?
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No. Green wood produces a thick, acrid smoke.
That would depend on the available oxygen supply. You really need to stop making such definitive statements.
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Yes, because an open camp fire does have a limited supply of oxygen.
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And anyway, fire seeks combustible material. It doesn't limit itself to a few rooms out of politeness. The WTC 7 "burned", as you yourselves say, for 6 hours.
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Lol. Which is why smoldering fires don't produce the same amount of heat.
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How do you get that conclusion from reading the last page of posts?

Where were you going here? Do you just post random thoughts or is there some sort of hidden coherency.
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Yes, because an open camp fire does have a limited supply of oxygen.
Why, yes it does.
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Maybe if you read the posts in between, you would understand.

Then again, maybe not.

DGM, you never answered my question about aetruth.info. WHere on that site can we "Learn the Truth" about Richard Gage?
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Maybe if you read the posts in between, you would understand.

Then again, maybe not.

DGM, you never answered my question about aetruth.info. WHere on that site can we "Learn the Truth" about Richard Gage?
If I thought you could understand what you read I would point it out. This thread show this is not the case.
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Ergo:
Still scratching your head over a campfire does not have an "infinite oxygen supply"?
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If I thought you could understand what you read I would point it out. This thread show this is not the case.
I don't know why we are arguing the ins and outs any more. It's over. 9/11 was an inside job.

We should be working on 'what now' .
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Lol. Which is why smoldering fires don't produce the same amount of heat.
False, as in a lie based on ignorance.

prove it
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LOL

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DGM, you never answered my question...


Rather than the incredulity, the honest thing to do would be:

- My theory about what happened to building 7 at the WTC is _____________.
- <Insert whatever supposed anomaly "too much/not enough smoke" etc.> about this event is relevant to the above because ____________.
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Lol. Which is why smoldering fires don't produce the same amount of heat.
It's so easy to confuse heat and temperature if you've never passed a physics course.
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I don't know why we are arguing the ins and outs any more. It's over. 9/11 was an inside job.
Yup. It was the fire inside WTC7 that made it collapse.
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Why is this thread still going on when Dr. Thomas ended it halfway through the first page?
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I don't know why we are arguing the ins and outs any more. It's over. 9/11 was an inside job.

We should be working on 'what now' .
Well Bill, I missed the memo. You can understand my confusion, I've been outside.



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It's so easy to confuse heat and temperature if you've never passed a physics course.


Beat me to it. Quite a few posts missed that point.
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Ergo:
Still scratching your head over a campfire does not have an "infinite oxygen supply"?
No, but since you're obviously dying to tell us, go ahead.
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It's so easy to confuse heat and temperature if you've never passed a physics course.
So do tell us how the difference between heat and temperature is relevant to our discussion about smouldering versus open fires.
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No. Green wood produces a thick, acrid smoke.
My apologies, you're correct. I spelled black in my head, put white in instead. Damn you beer!

Anyway, do you still stand by this "grey smoke doesn't come from raging fires" BS still?

BTW, the reason green wood produced black smoke, is because the heat is struggling to break the wood down, and it cannot completly do so. It causes creosote to form, which comes from the incomplete combustion of the material.
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So do tell us how the difference between heat and temperature is relevant to our discussion about smouldering versus open fires.
Probably of most relevance here is the fact that it is temperature which weakens steel.
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