[53602] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Even the New York Times withholds the address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Tue Nov 19 08:27:01 2002
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Joel Jaeggli)
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 05:26:22 -0800 (PST)
Cc: jullrich@euclidian.com (Johannes Ullrich),
sean@donelan.com (Sean Donelan), nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211190514020.16626-100000@twin.uoregon.edu> from "Joel Jaeggli" at Nov 19, 2002 05:21:45 AM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
... 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:
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> >
> > > 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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> In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last
> resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but
> inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
> -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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