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> Thus spake "Johannes Ullrich" <[email protected]> > > The article is comparing the relatively 'inert' diesel fuel to > > the aircraft fuel that caused the devastation at the WTC. > > Did the authors of this article ever hear about heating oil tanks? Unnamed Administration sources reported that Stephen Sprunk said: > Jet fuel ak.a kerosene is essentially the same thing as diesel. The only reason > it's 'inert' is that it's too dense to explode like gasoline. You have to mix > in oxidizers (e.g. fertilizer) or atomize it mechanically (e.g. BLU-82) before > ignition if you want a big boom. Essentially is a big understatement. Jet A **is** Kerosene. The highest grade, best inspected, Kero around, but still Kero. When it flunks one of those 20-odd tests, it's sold off as Kero. (At ~~40% of the JetA price...) Diesel, and #2 Heating Oil are slightly thicker but in this context not a whole lot different. [Diesel has a higher 'cetane' rating, very roughly equivalent to octane in gasoline..] Note that Conrail burn[ed,s] Kero in their locomotives; not sure why. Eons ago, [it seems..] I worked at a tank farm where we ..spooled.. hundreds of thousands of barrels [1 bbl == 42 USGal.] of gasoline and 'distillates' through local storage [tanks]. As I recall, we pumped the major airport 10 miles away just shy of half a million gallons of Jet A per day. -- A host is a host from coast to [email protected] & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433
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