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Re: Even the New York Times withholds the address


From: bmanning () vacation karoshi com
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 05:26:22 -0800 (PST)



... what's better in a fire?

        a decent oxider, mixed with fuel.



Not sure what they would gain by converting to fuel cells as the article
suggests. They probably would still require onsite storage for their
hydrogen source in order to insure uniterupted supply, either hydrogen, 
lng, natural gas or propane. what's better in a fire, a heating oil tank 
or a propane tank?

joelja

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?



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