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Post by End Zone on Sept 16, 2022 4:51:35 GMT -7
42-story Chinese Telecom building at Changsha burns like "Towering Inferno" movie on Sept 16. Some casualties. Terrifying for the city's's 10 million residents to watch.
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Post by thomas cat on Sept 17, 2022 22:54:23 GMT -7
"Towering Inferno"... Wasn't OJ Simpson in that movie...lol. Better days for both him and us.
When I first saw your post a couple of days ago, I immediately turned on the news to see what was going on. I'm a news junkie and watch all the news channels....but there was nothing. WTH....about all they were talking about is the Queen. I'm sad about the Queen, but clearly there was other news that day.
Perhaps they may have taken a minute or two to report it, but if so, I missed it.
I did some googling that day, but there was precious little about it. I guess since there were no deaths ( as far as we know ) it wasn't newsworthy. The again, maybe China didn't want that news out there and tried to censor any outgoing pictures/videos or news.
Your video looked very similar to a fire in Dubai and one in London a few years ago...
There was a TV documentary program about these fires. Both were blamed on the apparently very flammable cladding these buildings had. Most of the fire was on the outside.
Here is an updated and perhaps more scary video of that China fire...
Whether China wanted it out there or not, videos don't lie and are hard to keep from being put out there,
I will say, I'm glad there were no deaths as far as we know. Still, that is another scary fire that involved poor engineering with the materials that should not be used in the construction of these buildings.
I hope lessons are being learned....
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Post by End Zone on Sept 18, 2022 6:57:28 GMT -7
I do not think some construction companies appreciate the compounding effects of massive fuel, heat, and oxygen in a vertical environment. A sky-scrapper building is the fuel. Oxygen feeds in at the point of ignition. Heat is the output. Those three components are needed to have a monster fire. Add some pressure and anything will burn at the right temperature, including certain composite metals if they get hot enough. However, if we eliminate any one of the three components a fire cannot happen for very long.
The two World Trade Center fires were complex and similar to the Dubai and China high-rise building fires. The Columbia SST reentry on Feb 1, 2003 is an example of a high-pressure fire similar to how a high-pressure ramjet engine burns fuel.
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