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Actually, there are different grades of jet fuel as well as diesel. JP4 is 'common' but JP3 also has the characteristic of extinguishing fires and requires an accelerant to ignite. It was used in SR-71s among others. Best regards, ______________________________ Al Rowland -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scott Granados Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:28 AM To: Johannes Ullrich Cc: Sean Donelan; [email protected] Subject: Re: Even the New York Times withholds the address Diesel can even exstinguish flame in some cases. It is a much different anamal than aircraft fuel. There are concerns yes but not a good compairison. On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Johannes Ullrich wrote: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/19/nyregion/19FUEL.html > ... > > While almost everyone on this list knows which building is the > > subject of the article, we can discuss the issue without discussing > > the particular building. > > > > On-site fuel storage is one of those double-edge swords. > > 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? > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > [email protected] Collaborative Intrusion Detection > join http://www.dshield.org >
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