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Re: Even the New York Times withholds the address
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Tue Nov 19 10:13:12 2002
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:05:20 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <013101c28fda$b5e743f0$a8876540@amer.cisco.com> from "Stephen Sprunk" at Nov 19, 2002 08:32:10 AM
Reply-To: wb8foz@nrk.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Thus spake "Johannes Ullrich" <jullrich@euclidian.com>
> > 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?
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Stephen Sprunk said:
> Jet fuel ak.a kerosene is essentially the same thing as diesel. The only reason
> it's 'inert' is that it's too dense to explode like gasoline. You have to mix
> in oxidizers (e.g. fertilizer) or atomize it mechanically (e.g. BLU-82) before
> ignition if you want a big boom.
Essentially is a big understatement.
Jet A **is** Kerosene. The highest grade, best inspected, Kero
around, but still Kero. When it flunks one of those 20-odd tests,
it's sold off as Kero. (At ~~40% of the JetA price...)
Diesel, and #2 Heating Oil are slightly thicker but in this context
not a whole lot different. [Diesel has a higher 'cetane' rating,
very roughly equivalent to octane in gasoline..] Note that Conrail
burn[ed,s] Kero in their locomotives; not sure why.
Eons ago, [it seems..] I worked at a tank farm where we ..spooled..
hundreds of thousands of barrels [1 bbl == 42 USGal.] of gasoline
and 'distillates' through local storage [tanks]. As I recall,
we pumped the major airport 10 miles away just shy of half a
million gallons of Jet A per day.
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