Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Friday, November 17, 2006
A video of a firefighter describing seeing
molten "steel" flowing at ground zero after 9/11 has
emerged on Google video. He states that it was like a foundry
or "lava in a volcano". This is an extremely important
piece of footage because it highlights the fact that something
other than jet fuel fires, or in the case of building 7, office
material fires, was responsible for the collapse of the buildings.
There are lots of accounts alleging that
rescue workers encountered molten steel. Debunkers have often
asked the question whether these witnesses know the difference
between incandescent and molten, i.e. the fact that glowing steel
was pulled out of the rubble doesn't mean it was molten.
The firefighter in this video specifically
says the steel was flowing.
Molten metal found in the basement of the
WTC suggests that the commonly used explosive thermite
may be responsible for the collapse. Physics professor Steven
Jones, formerly of Brigham Young University, has conducted extensive
research to prove that buildings not destroyed by explosives would
have insufficient directed energy to produce the large quantities
of melted metal that was discovered. The molten steel was found
five days after the collapse, on Sept. 16, when the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA) used an Airborne Visible/Infrared
Imaging Spectrometer (AVIRIS) to locate and measure the site’s
hot spots.
It requires temperatures of at least 2800 degrees fahrenheit
to melt steel. Steel supports were "partly evaporated,"
but it would require temperatures near 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit
to evaporate steel. Diesel jet fuel does not reach these temperatures
and the fires in the buildings were short lived. Firefighter tape
recordings prove that only small pockets of fire were still burning
in the buildings seconds before their collapse.
The USGS Spectroscopy Lab produced images which showed dense
thermal hot spots days and weeks after the attacks.
ABC News reported that, "the temperature at
the core of "the pile," is near 2000 degrees Fahrenheit,
according to fire officials, who add that the fires are too deep
for firefighters to get to."
In perfect conditions the maximum temperature that can be reached
by hydrocarbons such as jet fuel burning in air is 1520° F
(825° C). When the World Trade Center collapsed the deeply
buried fires would have been deprived of oxygen and their temperatures
would have significantly decreased.
Why was the temperature at the core of "the pile" nearly
500° F hotter than the maximum burning temperature of jet
fuel a full seven days after the collapses? There were no infernos
in either of the twin towers before they collapsed, so what caused
the hot spots deep in their wreckage?
Dr.
Frank Gayle, Metals Expert, on the jet fuel fires
which burned in the WTC buildings:
"Your gut reaction would be the jet fuel is what made the
fire so very intense, a lot of people figured that's what melted
the steel. Indeed it didn't, the steel did not melt."
Molten steel did not exist in the WTC buildings prior to the
collapses, but...
Molten steel was found “three, four, and five weeks later,
when the rubble was being removed [from WTCs 1 & 2],”
Mark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI)
of Phoenix, Maryland is on
record as saying. He said molten steel was also found
at 7 WTC, which collapsed mysteriously in the late afternoon.
One of the more unusual artifacts to emerge from the rubble was
a rock-like object which has come to be known as "the meteorite".
It is a fused element of molten steel and concrete all fused by
the heat into one single element.
What caused the steel to melt? How did it stay molten for weeks
after the collapses? How did fires in the WTC wreckage manage
to burn for more
than three months?
According to The
Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, a thermite reaction
generates extraordinarily high temperatures in excess of 2,500°C.
This provides a credible explanation for the fires, hot spots
and molten steel (a by-product of the thermite reaction) found
in the collapsed buildings.
Thermite contains its own supply of oxygen, and does not require
any external source such as air. Consequently, it cannot be smothered
and may ignite in any environment, given sufficient initial heat.
It will burn just as well while underwater, for example, and cannot
even be extinguished with water, as water sprayed on a thermite
reaction will instantly be boiled into steam.
The use of thermite and thermate is also common in military
circles:
Thermite grenades are used by the military as incendiary devices
to quickly destroy items or equipment when there is imminent danger
of them being captured by enemy forces. Because of the difficulty
in igniting standard iron-thermite, plus the fact that it burns
with practically no flame and has a small radius of action, standard
thermite is rarely used on its own as an incendiary composition.
It is more usually employed with other ingredients added to enhance
its incendiary effects. Thermate-TH3 is a mixture of thermite
and pyrotechnic additives which have been found to be superior
to standard thermite for incendiary purposes. Its composition
by weight is generally thermite 68.7%, barium nitrate 29.0%, sulphur
2.0% and binder 0.3%.
Professor Jones contends that thermite devices could be set off
at will using thermite electrical matches commonly used for controlled
demolitions. He also points to evidence of a dark grey thermite
residue on recovered steel columns from the towers.
In August 2006 the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) responded
to questions of controlled demolition and thermite
use by dismissing all the evidence outright in two incredible
sentences. Firstly in response to the thermite theory:
"Analysis of the WTC steel for the elements in thermite/thermate
would not necessarily have been conclusive. The metal compounds
also would have been present in the construction materials making
up the WTC towers, and sulfur is present in the gypsum wallboard
that was prevalent in the interior partitions."
NIST also contend that the suggestion is irrelevant because they
had already ruled out controlled demolition.
Secondly on the molten metal:
"The condition of the steel in the wreckage of the WTC towers
(i.e., whether it was in a molten state or not) was irrelevant
to the investigation of the collapse since it does not provide
any conclusive information on the condition of the steel when
the WTC towers were standing."
Oh OK, forget it then shall we?
