The jet fuel burned off very quickly. The fires were sustained by the immense of amount of regular flammable material you would find in an office. Filing cabinets filled with paper, computers, carpets.
You wouldn't use det charges AND thermite. The whole idea that the thermite was used is because the linear charges used in building demolitions would be way too loud. They would have been heard in NJ and Brooklyn and all through lower Manhattan.
A lot of the jet fuel went up in the initial fireball. Some more went down the elevator shafts and exploded in the lobby. Which is probably what the firefighters heard. There was an elevator that went the full length of the building.....to the restaurant at the top. These "explosions" didn't bring down the building. The building stood after that.
The fire got hot enough to weaken the steel. Because most of the sprayed fire resistive materials would have stripped from the steel when the planes tore through the building. They changed the SFRM requirements in the building codes after that.
Det charges leave a ton of evidence. Miles and miles of det cord would be required and you can make a charge cut through steel AND be quiet. They are linked.
My problem with thermite is, it would leave a ton of evidence. It's effects are very distinctive looking and it would leave blobs of iron and Aluminium oxide everywher
The Structural Engineering group in NY examined the steel. They went to the places in Staten Island where the debris was taken and looked at the steel. The results of thermite would have been noticed
Jet fuel is actually LESS explosive than gasoline. It's an oil, reskky, really, not a liquid
The jet fuel burned off very quickly. The fires were sustained by the immense of amount of regular flammable material you would find in an office. Filing cabinets filled with paper, computers, carpets.
You wouldn't use det charges AND thermite. The whole idea that the thermite was used is because the linear charges used in building demolitions would be way too loud. They would have been heard in NJ and Brooklyn and all through lower Manhattan.
A lot of the jet fuel went up in the initial fireball. Some more went down the elevator shafts and exploded in the lobby. Which is probably what the firefighters heard. There was an elevator that went the full length of the building.....to the restaurant at the top. These "explosions" didn't bring down the building. The building stood after that.
The fire got hot enough to weaken the steel. Because most of the sprayed fire resistive materials would have stripped from the steel when the planes tore through the building. They changed the SFRM requirements in the building codes after that.
Det charges leave a ton of evidence. Miles and miles of det cord would be required and you can make a charge cut through steel AND be quiet. They are linked.
My problem with thermite is, it would leave a ton of evidence. It's effects are very distinctive looking and it would leave blobs of iron and Aluminium oxide everywher
The Structural Engineering group in NY examined the steel. They went to the places in Staten Island where the debris was taken and looked at the steel. The results of thermite would have been noticed