Using jet fuel to melt steel is an
amazing discovery,
really. It is also amazing that until now, no one had been
able
to get it to work,
and that proves the terrorists were not stupid
people. Ironworkers fool with acetylene torches, bottled oxygen,
electric arcs from generators,
electric furnaces, and other
elaborate tricks, but what did these brilliant terrorists use? Jet
fuel, costing maybe 80 cents a gallon on
the open market.
Let us consider: One plane full of jet fuel hit the north
tower
at 8:45 a.m., and the fuel fire burned for a while with bright
flames and black smoke.
We can see pictures of white smoke and
flames shooting from the windows.
Then by 9:03 a.m. (which time was marked by the second
plane's
collision with the south tower), the flame was mostly gone and only
black smoke continued to pour from the building. To my simple mind,
that would indicate that the first fire had died down, but
something was still burning inefficiently,
leaving soot (carbon) in
the smoke. A fire with sooty smoke is either low temperature or
starved for oxygen -- or both. (http://public-action.com/911/jmcm/fires1-2.html)
But by 10:29 a.m., the fire in north tower had
accomplished
the
feat that I find so amazing: It melted the steel supports in the
building,
causing a chain reaction within the structure that
brought the building to the ground.
And with less fuel to feed the fire, the south tower
collapsed
only 47 minutes after the plane collision, again with complete
destruction.
This is only half the time it took to destroy the
north tower.