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Originally Posted by scout
OK I'll buy that, I was just working off previous posts and I'm by no means an expert of any kind on anything that happened on 9/11. It sounds like they haven't ruled out the possibility of fuel contributing to the fire though. From your post :
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That text on page 38 was a quote from the NIST April, 2005 WTC 7 Investigation Status presentation.
At the NIST December, 18, 2007 WTC 7 Investigation Status presentation, Diesel fuel or other combustibles not found normally in an office building, are not being considered in the current working hypothesis. Since NIST claims it will offer a preliminary report withing six months for a period of public comment, and a final report in August, seven months from now, there will be no time to do computer modeling of the effects of anything but what NIST described on Dec. 18. Normal building fires, no diesel fuel or other combustibles burning in the building. They allow for 4 lbs, of office type contents, per square foot of floor space, as the only fuel feeding fires in their working hypothesis.
In the audio I linked to, there is an explanation that an allowance is made of plus or minus ten percent in combuistion generated gas temperatures, to compensate for the unpredictable combustible contents densirty and variety, on each floor of the building, consumed in normalbuilding fires.
If the report is finished in August, it will be coming out at exactly 84 months after the WTC 7 collapse. Seven years investigation time, and abandonment of a working hypothesis that included diesel fuel fed building fires, hints to me that NIST is either clueless, or attempting to run out the clock on this investigation, for reasons not known to the few in the public body who are still watching this.
I'd be happy to read other opinions. It looks like they had alack of evidence...smell, visible evidence from witnesses and pictures, and examination of the debris, if they did any....to defend an investigation that continued to center on fire other than "normal building fires", so they went there, exclusively, in their modeling. They've simulated every structural steel joint in the building's frame, including joints modified in the 1988 alterations. That is what has take so much of the additional 31 months, they claim in the audio from the december meeting.....
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