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DEAR NIST INVESTIGATORS,

Proof there was Molten Metal in the basements of the Twin Towers and Building 7 — and why Kerosene could not have been its cause.


Jet fuel is nothing more than refined kerosene — the stuff you use in your camping stove without fear of it ever melting the grille. In the case of the Twin Towers, a relatively paltry 10,000 gallons of it is said to have MELTED HUNDREDS OF TONS OF HIGH-GRADE CONSTRUCTION STEEL.

While "10,000 gallons" might appear to be a huge amount, in reality it is a relatively miniscule volume: approximately 11'x11'x11' -- about the size of just one of the thousands of small cubicles that were peppered throughout the Towers — relatively speaking, a pinprick on these voluminous million-cubic-foot structures.

But even that's quite beside the point: Kerosene simply does not possess the thermodynamic potential to melt steel. Period. No, not even a million gallons of it can. To prove the point, I suggest torching a loaded petroleum tanker out at sea. You'll have a bonfire that would last several days — and still leave a floating steel hull, quite intact, at the end of it.



First, watch this video clip of a NYFD fireman speak of having seen "Streams of molten metal...running like in a foundry":

http://www.911blogger.com/node/4519


Then, read the following sample of comments by eyewitnesses at Ground Zero:


"Feeling the heat and seeing the molten steel reminded me of a volcano."
—Mt. St. Helens volcano disaster veteran Ron Burger, public health advisor at the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention  
http://www.neha.org/9-11%20report/index-The.html


"There are fires burning and molten steel flowing in the pile of ruins still settling beneath our feet."
—Sarah Atlas, Urban Search and Rescue, New Jersey
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/sasalum/newsltr/summer2002/k911.html


"...The heat was so intense we encountered rivers of molten steel."
—NYFD firefighter, as reported in the New York Post, 3/3/04; also in documentary film, "The First 24 Hours"
http://www.nypost.com/movies/19574.htm


"Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel."
—Alison Geyh, PhD, Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health
http://www.jhsph.edu/Publications/Special/Welch.htm


"...We descended deep below street level to areas where underground fires still burned and steel flowed in molten streams."
—A reporter with rare access to the debris at ground zero, quoted in the book, "American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center" by William Langewiesche
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200207/77nwash


"...The streams of molten metal that leaked from the hot cores and flowed down broken walls inside the foundation hole."
—The same journalist referred to above, in "American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center" by William Langewiesche
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002E5QKI/qid=1133995198/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/104-8127579-2142330?s=books&v=glance&n=283155


"...A fire truck 10 feet below the ground that was still burning two weeks after the Tower collapsed. Its metal was so hot that it looked like a vat of molten steel."
—Vance Deisingnore, OSHA Officer at WTC, to Jim McKay, Post-Gazette Staff Writer, on September 11, 2002
http://www.thenewliberator.com/wethepeople.htm


"...A combination of an uncontrolled fire and the structural damage might have been able to bring the building down, but that would not explain steel members in the debris pile that appear to have been PARTLY EVAPORATED in extraordinarily high temperatures"
—A fire safety expert, about World Trade Center building 7.  NB: Evaporation means conversion from a liquid to a gas; so the steel beams in building 7 were subjected to temperatures high enough to melt and evaporate them.
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10812FF3F590C7A8EDDA80994D9404482


"...There were fires still burning and molten steel still running 21 days after the attacks."
—James M. Williams, President, Structural Engineers Association of Utah, in SEAU News, Volume VI, Issue 11, October 2001


"They showed us many fascinating slides ranging from molten metal, which was still red hot weeks after the event."
—A structural engineer, quoted in the September 3, 2002 issue of The Structural Engineer magazine, Page 5


"One fireman told us that there was still molten steel at the heart of the towers' remains. Firemen sprayed water to cool the debris down but the heat remained intense enough at the surface to melt their boots."
—Guy Lounsbury, a member of New York Air National Guard's 109th Air Wing, who was at Ground Zero from September 22 to October 6
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3731/is_200112/ai_n9015802


"in the early days, the streams of molten metal that leaked from the hot cores and flowed down broken walls inside the foundation hole."
-- William Langewiesche, the only journalist to have unrestricted access to Ground Zero during the cleanup operation


"...As we get closer and closer to the center it gets hotter and hotter... it's unbelievable...it's like an oven inside, bright, bright, orangish color, at least 1500 degrees...and it's six weeks later!"
—Unidentified NYFD fireman in OSHA documentary film of ground zero


"There are pieces of steel being pulled out from as far as six stories underground that are still cherry red...and the blaze is so far beyond a normal fire that it is nearly impossible to draw conclusions about it based on other fires."
—Don Carson, a hazardous materials expert for the National Operating Engineers Union, six weeks after 9/11
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/nydailynews/
87451160.html?did=87451160&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=
Nov+1%2C+2001&author=GREG+GITTRICH+DAILY+NEWS+STAFF+WRITER&pub=New+York+Daily+News&desc=FIRE+MAY+SMOLDER+FOR+MONTHS


"for about two and a half months after the attacks, in addition to its regular duties, NYDS played a major role in debris removal -- everything from molten steel beams to human remains...."
—Kathy Dawkins, New York City Department of Sanitation (NYDS) spokesperson, in Waste Age magazine, April 1, 2002
http://wasteage.com/mag/waste_dday_ny_sanitation/


"Underground it was still so hot that molten metal dripped down the sides of the wall from Building 6."
—Worker involved with the organizing of demolition, excavation and debris removal operations at ground zero, in a Staff Statement to the 9/11 Commission
http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/


"...a steel beam being lifted from deep underground at Ground Zero was dripping from the molten steel."
—Joe O'Toole, Bronx firefighter, to reporter Jennifer Lin of the Philadelphia Inquirer...05/29/2002
http://www.fallenbrothers.com/community/showthread.php?p=2948#post2948


"Underground, it was still so hot that molten metal dripped down the sides of the wall from Building 6"
--Ken Holden, who was involved with the organizing of demolition, excavation and debris removal operations at Ground Zero, in his testimony to the 9/11 Commission (which, as we now know, was ignored)


"...This was the longest-burning structural fire in history, even though it rained heavily on September 14, 2001 and again on September 21, 2001, and the fires were sprayed with high tech fire-retardants, and firetrucks sprayed a nearly constant jet of water on ground zero...You couldn't even begin to imagine how much water was pumped in there...it was like you were creating a giant lake..."
—Tom Manley of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, the largest fire department union.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/12/19/archive/main321907.shtml


"...New York firefighters recall `heat so intense they encountered rivers of molten steel'....
—New York Post, 3/3/2004




And in the event all of the individuals quoted above were victims of a mass hallucination, a reassuring piece of NASA infrared imagery that reflects the molten byproducts of this mysterious new "super kerosene"...

The following are NASA Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) images taken to locate and measure the WTC site's hot spots...