chrismohr
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Hi Bill,
Your comments in italics:
1. To lever something upwards you must depress the other end of the lever over a fulcrum or pivot point. To lever something downwards you must raise the other end of the lever. Where is the fulcrum for the downwards leverage ?
Look again at my design in video 18 (hand-drawn by me). The pivot on the left is somewhere either inside the building or along a different wall, and is either holding still or falling more slowly than the north perimeter wall for a couple seconds. The beam or floor also is attached to the north perimeter wall. In between is some kind of weight. I don't have an art degree either so the weight looks like some kind of punching bag, but in reality probably looked like more beams, columns or floors. The weight of the collapsing "punching bag" is leveraged downwards by the piviot on the left holding steadier and the perimeter wall on the right being yanked down.
2. In WTC1 and WTC2 I think some selected hollow core columns were filled with nanothermite incendiary.In WTC7 I think that collars of thermate (which is just thermite with added sulphur for the enhanced burning of steel) were put on the core columns and thickly covered in fireproofing (which makes excellent lightproofing by the way)
Richard Gage said something like that too, and at first hiding the light would be possible because thermate is not particularly explosive. And yes, it can definitely melt through steel. The problem though, as I said, is that when the building undergoes its rapid and catastrophic collapse, the still-burning thermate would be exposed. Certainly once it burns THROUGH a hollow column and there is no hollow column any more, the light will shine for at least another 20 seconds after total collapse. It didn't.
3. Nanothermite ignites very quickly so I guess that nanothermate would not be much different.
Richard gage says (and the videos on YouTube confirm) that nanothermite burns quickly and can in fact be used as a low-to-medium grade explosive... as in VERY fast. Thermate, by contrast, does its work almost exclusively by heating up, and it works on steel beams slowly (six or seven seconds to work through even a small beam). Gage believes there was less lateral ejection and squibs as a result. No one has ever used the term nanothermate before, to my knowledge.
FEMA statement. and other info
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAndcg8MZaM
In a private email Jonathan Barnett listed possible sources of the sulfur, like acid rain, sulfur dioxide from burning gypsum, etc. He did not list thermitics. He would like to see more research on the sulfidized steel so that we can better understand then threat posed by sulfidation of steel in a normal office fire.
Your comments in italics:
1. To lever something upwards you must depress the other end of the lever over a fulcrum or pivot point. To lever something downwards you must raise the other end of the lever. Where is the fulcrum for the downwards leverage ?
Look again at my design in video 18 (hand-drawn by me). The pivot on the left is somewhere either inside the building or along a different wall, and is either holding still or falling more slowly than the north perimeter wall for a couple seconds. The beam or floor also is attached to the north perimeter wall. In between is some kind of weight. I don't have an art degree either so the weight looks like some kind of punching bag, but in reality probably looked like more beams, columns or floors. The weight of the collapsing "punching bag" is leveraged downwards by the piviot on the left holding steadier and the perimeter wall on the right being yanked down.
2. In WTC1 and WTC2 I think some selected hollow core columns were filled with nanothermite incendiary.In WTC7 I think that collars of thermate (which is just thermite with added sulphur for the enhanced burning of steel) were put on the core columns and thickly covered in fireproofing (which makes excellent lightproofing by the way)
Richard Gage said something like that too, and at first hiding the light would be possible because thermate is not particularly explosive. And yes, it can definitely melt through steel. The problem though, as I said, is that when the building undergoes its rapid and catastrophic collapse, the still-burning thermate would be exposed. Certainly once it burns THROUGH a hollow column and there is no hollow column any more, the light will shine for at least another 20 seconds after total collapse. It didn't.
3. Nanothermite ignites very quickly so I guess that nanothermate would not be much different.
Richard gage says (and the videos on YouTube confirm) that nanothermite burns quickly and can in fact be used as a low-to-medium grade explosive... as in VERY fast. Thermate, by contrast, does its work almost exclusively by heating up, and it works on steel beams slowly (six or seven seconds to work through even a small beam). Gage believes there was less lateral ejection and squibs as a result. No one has ever used the term nanothermate before, to my knowledge.
FEMA statement. and other info
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAndcg8MZaM
In a private email Jonathan Barnett listed possible sources of the sulfur, like acid rain, sulfur dioxide from burning gypsum, etc. He did not list thermitics. He would like to see more research on the sulfidized steel so that we can better understand then threat posed by sulfidation of steel in a normal office fire.