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OT: WAS: Even the New York Times withholds the address


From: "Al Rowland" <alan_r1 () corp earthlink net>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:37:51 -0800


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

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From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of
Scott Granados
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:28 AM
To: Johannes Ullrich
Cc: Sean Donelan; nanog () merit edu
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?

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