| High Temperatures, Persistent Heat & 'Molten Steel' at WTC Site Contradict Official Story |
| News - News Releases By AE911Truth | |
| Written by Richard Gage, AIA, Andrea Dreger & Gregg Roberts | |
| Tuesday, 24 August 2010 20:31 | |
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Extremely high temperatures were evident before and during the destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and at Ground Zero. Seven minutes before the destruction of the South Tower, a flow of molten metal appeared, accompanied by several smaller flows, as documented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The material’s glowing color showed that its temperature was close to “white hot” at the very beginning of the flow and “yellow-orange” further down. Iron-rich spheres in the WTC dust are additional proof of temperatures above the melting point of iron. Pyroclastic-like, rapidly expanding dust clouds after the destruction of the Towers can also be explained only by the expansion of hot gases.
The high-temperature phenomena at Ground Zero are documented by various sources: Bechtel engineers, responsible for safety at Ground Zero, wrote in the Journal of the American Society of Safety Engineers: “The debris pile at Ground Zero was always tremendously hot. Thermal measurements taken by helicopter each day showed underground temperatures ranging from 400ºF to more than 2,800ºF.” The fact that high-temperature phenomena were an important issue at Ground Zero is underscored by the large number of thermal images acquired: images by SPOT, MTI, AVIRIS/NASA, "Twin Otter"/U.S. Army, and at least 25 images by EarthData, taken between Sept. 16 and Oct. 25. In addition, temperature measurements by helicopter were taken each day, and the firefighters used onsite sensors too. Many witnesses, including rescue personnel and firefighters working on the piles, described the phenomenon of “molten steel.” Terms used in witness statements are, for example, “molten steel,” beams “dripping from molten steel,” “molten steel … like you’re in a foundry. Like lava, from a volcano.” A photograph taken on September 27 by a Ground Zero worker shows an excavating machine lifting debris from the WTC wreckage dripping yellow/orange molten metal. WTC clean-up workers and 9/11 artifacts architect Bart Voorsanger, in the PBS video “Relics from the Rubble,” described what must have been several tons of “fused element[s] of steel ... molten steel and concrete and all of these things …all fused by the heat,” weighing several tons each. These foreign objects came to be known as “meteorites.” The heat at Ground Zero was not only extreme, it was also persistent, as proven not only by witness statements and a photograph by LiRo Group / Engineering of orange-red glowing steel as late as October 21, but also by thermal images taken by NASA and EarthData satellites. The EarthData thermal images also show that the “hot spots” remained at the same locations. The phenomenon did not “move” across the site, like one would expect from fire as it consumes the fuel available in any one location. University of California professor Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, the first structural engineer given access to the WTC steel at Fresh Kills Landfill notes, “I saw melting of girders at the World Trade Center.” Astaneh also “describes the connections [between supporting columns] as being smoothly warped: ‘If you remember the Salvador Dalí paintings with the clocks that are kind of melted – it’s kind of like that. That could only happen if you get steel yellow hot or white hot – perhaps around 2,000 degrees.’”. Iron workers at the site pointed out that huge columns that were bent into horseshoe shapes - without the flanges showing any cracks or buckling. They cited, "It takes thousands of degrees to bend steel like this". FEMA documents in their Appendix C of its May 2002 WTC Building Performance Assessment Team study, for sample 1, “evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting.” A “sulfur-rich liquid” containing “primarily iron, oxygen, and sulfur” “penetrated” into the steel. The extremely high temperatures contradict the official story. Office and hydrocarbon fires burning in open air (~500° to 1,500° F) cannot reach temperatures in the range that iron or structural steel melts (2,700° F). This was even acknowledged by NIST’s Co-Project Leader, John Gross, in the same public talk where he stated regarding the phenomena of molten steel, “I know of absolutely nobody, no eyewitnesses that said so, nobody that’s produced it.” Yet there is abundant proof of the molten metal, which subsequent tests reveal to be iron, in the debris piles. Furthermore, NIST itself performed extensive fire tests to establish the temperatures reached by the WTC office and jet fuel fires. The temperatures established are far below the temperatures required to produce all of the above phenomena – which occurred both before and during the destruction and at Ground Zero. The steel problem was “solved” by NIST by excluding most of the steel from being systematically examined for failure modes and heat excursions. The steel collected by the Port Authority, which has been stored in Hangar 17 at JFK Airport, was not included in the investigation except for 12 pieces. Of the 236 pieces that NIST possessed, many were excluded based on the circular argument that only columns from impact and fire floors were of interest in the investigation. Thus, NIST avoided having to discuss 51 of its 55 core columns. Sample 1 from FEMA’s Appendix C was also excluded. In addition, NIST developed a new method of “visual examination” that it then substituted in place of the systematically used tool. NIST’s “paint cracking” method has the following “advantages”: paint cracks can be produced not only by high temperature excursions, but also by “corrosion”/ “environmental degradation” and by plastic deformation; many columns had no paint left for examination, Moreover, by relying on a method that requires microscopic examination, NIST was able to ignore pieces that were obviously heat-affected but had come from non-fire floors. A contractor’s report that employed common visual examination was “reviewed”: NIST contrasted the contractor’s results with their newly developed method and their fire exposure observations, and by employing again a circular argument. NIST’s steel “examination” shows that its “working hypothesis” was in fact its premise, and that NIST gone to great lengths to maintain this premise. Some want to cite “natural thermite reactions” for the high-temperature phenomena: airplane aluminum must have reacted with rust. This possibility can be ruled out based on the findings of a study that was conducted in 2002 at the Colorado School of Mines for the Minerals Management Service. Officially, the study, whose lead author is a close research associate of T. W. Siewert of NIST, is about thermite-sparking in offshore environments. But due to a very odd study design the question about the feasibility of natural thermite reactions in the WTC is answered too. The authors established the ignition temperatures for rust, dehydrated rust and iron-oxide-based thermite reactions. The necessary temperatures are so high that one can conclude that thermite reactions between airplane aluminum and rust (some rust was on beams according to documents), dehydrated rust (rust dehydrates in fire) or iron oxide (iron oxide was part of the primary paint) were not feasible in the WTC. Also tested was what happens when aluminum impacts rust at very high velocity, so, interestingly, even the possibility that the impacting airplanes caused natural thermite reactions can be ruled out. The overwhelming evidence of these extremely high temperatures, which normal office fires and jet fuel cannot produce, cries out for a new investigation. The hypothesis of explosive controlled demolition must be examined and, if confirmed, followed wherever it leads, so that Americans can know for sure what was the real cause of the catastrophic loss of life at the WTC on 9/11 and the identities of |
Just five days after the bombing, on May 29, while Bari was still in hospital, Mike Geniella of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat received a letter claiming responsibility for placing the bomb in Bari's car and at the Cloverdale mill. It was written in an ornate, biblical style with heavily misogynistic language and signed "The Lord's Avenger,"[36] stating further that the letter writer's motivation was outrage at Bari's offense against his religious sensibilities during an anti-abortion protest at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Ukiah, California in December 1988. The letter also described the construction of the two bombs in great detail. The bomb in the Cloverdale sawmill included a pipe bomb and a can of gasoline, but it failed to ignite and did no damage. The other bomb was in Bari's vehicle.[37] The letter focused suspicion on Bill Staley, a former professional football player and self-styled preacher who had been at the demonstration. Staley was eventually cleared of suspicion in the bombing. The detailed description of the bombs tied the letter's author to the construction of the bomb, however, the author's explanation of when and where the bomb was placed in Bari's car was found to be implausible. The author claimed to have placed the bomb during an event when Bari's car was parked on a busy street and the location of which was not widely disseminated. The author claimed an implausible malfunction of the timing mechanism to explain the delay between the claimed time of bomb placement and its detonation. It was decided among both supporters and detractors of Bari's favored theory of the bombing that the letter was sent by the bomb builder in an effort to divert attention to Staley.[19][16]
Pete Bennett attempted to meet with candidate for office Eric Nunn but someone in Contra Costa wasn't interested in his survival.
A #deadwitness whodunit as is the three murders each connected in a way no one could connected but including other cases reveals the What's Missing Pattern .
The Murder Case: Bennett vs. Southern Pacific lost in 1989 when key witness Floyd Brown Jr. was murdered in Concord. The problem was the murder was covered up by Sheriff/Coroner Richard Rainey along with several other hate crimes between 1979 and 1992 when Rainey was elected to a Public Office.
The Murder Case: Pete Bennett performed at Vinnies during open Mic in March 2012. Nate performed as well. A month later he was dead.
The Murder Case: Bennett was arrested several days after the Open Mic where Deputy Vince Jimenez placed a dangerous inmate in his cell and then denied his meds. The other inmate well to fly off handle and take down anyone in site.
The murder of John Newman on Monument Blvd. and once again the Cororner got creative in thier reports.
Connection: Kinder Care: wholly owned subsidiary of Knowledge Universe.
Connection: Knowledge Universe wholly owned subsidiary controlled by Michael Milken and Larry Ellison.
Left: Nathaniel Greenan
Raised in the Mormon Church in Alamo CA and son of Attorney ames S. Greenan
Right: Lawrence Ellison
Founder of Kinder Care retained James S. Greenan of Greenan Peffer Sallander & Lally LLP for litigation related to Kinder Care.
The Murder Coverups:
Bennett vs. Southern Pacific lost in 1989 when key witness Floyd Brown Jr. was murdered in Concord.
At the helm was Sheriff/Coroner Richard Rainey and his officer was in charge of other local hate crimes documented as suicides. Rainey held the office 1979 and 1992 then elected to a Public Office.
The Murder Case: Bennett vs. Southern Pacific lost in 1989 when key witness Floyd Brown Jr. was murdered in Concord. The problem was the murder was covered up by Sheriff/Coroner Richard Rainey along with several other hate crimes between 1979 and 1992 when Rainey was elected to a Public Office.
Connection: Kinder Care: wholly owned subsidiary of Knowledge Universe.
Connection: Knowledge Universe wholly owned subsidiary controlled by Michael Milken and Larry Ellison.
Left: Nathaniel Greenan raised in the Mormon Church in Alamo CA.
Left: Nathaniel Greenan son of James S. Greenan of Greenan Peffer Sallander & Lally LLP
345 Linda Mesa Danville CA 94526
While exploring Mormonism at Alamo 1st Ward Pete Bennett was also in the midst of a divorce. Unknown to Bennett when his truck exploded he was up against corrupt police officers later indicted for small stuff like Abuse of Authority Under Color of Law codified under Racketeering Statutes.
She was the brightest light so similar is this story to Jineva Driscoll, Allison Bayliss, Michelle Mischeloff, Lisa Dickinson
One average person barely knows or has connections to a single murder case. Pete Bennett created deadwitness.com and other blogs after endless murders near him.
During July 2020 one attorney would have been willing to take on Contra Costa County was murdered in Southern California.
This odd case was another incident occuring in Benicia CA. Allegedly, Walter Little killed his fiance
enicia police officers stand near a home where two bodies were discovered Tuesday morning.
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Pete Bennett once had offices in Oak Park Center. In the months before the San Bruno Explosion several characters requested services via former PG&E Mathemitician, a retired cop from San Francisco and a mysterious RFP filled with records connected to a specialized PG&Eamp;E electric supplier.
Peter A. Darbee is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of PG&E Corporation. Since becoming CEO in 2005, Darbee has spearheaded major new initiatives to establish PG&E as an industry front-runner in customer satisfaction, operational excellence and environmental leadership.
With a record of success in both competitive and regulated businesses, Darbee joined PG&E Corporation in 1999 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Before joining PG&E, Darbee was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Advanced Fibre Communications, Inc. Prior to that, he was CFO and Controller at Pacific Bell. Earlier, as an investment banker with Goldman Sachs, he was Vice President and co-head of the company’s energy and telecommunications group. He also held positions at Salomon Brothers and AT&T.
Darbee earned his bachelor’s degree in economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He has also successfully completed the Nuclear Reactor Technology Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Darbee has become one of the industry’s most active leaders on the issues of climate change, energy efficiency, renewable energy, the “smart grid” and other aspects of energy and environmental policy.
Darbee also is active in numerous civic and community organizations at the national and state levels, including The Business Council, the California Business Roundtable, the California Commission for Jobs and Economic Growth, the San Francisco Committee on JOBS, and the San Francisco Symphony Board of Governors.
A murder victim has been identified by the Contra Costa County coroner’s office today as 19-year-old Antioch resident Kadeem Hodge, who was shot and killed early Sunday morning in his hometown, police said.
An excavating machine at Ground Zero lifts debris dripping with molten metal
So he was caught shoplifting, someone didn’t like the fact he didn’t get away with it so they killed him, what a POS!!
At @ 2:00 a.m., son, where are you? – You need to be home in bed, it’s late
Yes, we;re talking about a 19 year old, I have one too – they are accountable if they are living at home!
My poor hometown.