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(Nuclear has nothing on thermite it is so much more versatile and mobile)
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An engineer?
Thermite is versatile, there is 645,000,000 MJ/kg in a hydrogen fusion (nuke), only 88,250,000 MJ/kg in Uranium nuke, and the we have the very versatile thermite reaction.
Thermite has 4.00 MJ/kg, coming in 22,063,500 times less energy per kg.
Any clues why thermite is NOT used to power our cities or cars? Cause even oil has ten times the energy.
plastics have more energy.
Great engineering... Wait, what about using thermite instead of nuke on our ICBMs! 23 years as an engineer, you don't say... and you support thermite in the WTC destruction? Your logic is... well... very special.
Jet fuel beats thermite; jet fuel has 42.8 MJ/kg, why are we going to use the feeble heat energy of thermite when jet fuel beats it by an order of magnitude (engineers use this term).
Wood has 18 MJ/kg and we can 4.5 times less wooden desks than thermite and burn up a building, or the same weight of desks as thermite and have 4.5 times more energy! Wowzer!
What else is better than thermite?
Chocolate chip cookies have 8 times the energy.
Plastics, 10 times the energy.
No one would use Thermite, the energy dud.
Fires destroyed the WTC, not thermite. Office fires have more energy than thermite, and they were started jet fuel equal to 315 tons of TNT in heat energy, remember 10 times the energy of thermite. (order of magnitude)
Welcome new thermite engineer.