Ed Ward MD

Sep 30 2009, 07:33 PM

So supposedly, the trucks were 'too dusty' and therefor too dangerous to be washed off. Strange, WTC dust wasn't dangerous in the more than 2 billion pounds of it spread all over New York.

JFK

Sep 30 2009, 08:21 PM

I snipped the rest of your post as it does not deal with the point I am making.

Also you forgot to subtract the weight of the remaining steel from your two billion pound estimate.

Ed Ward MD

Sep 30 2009, 08:41 PM

JFK

Sep 30 2009, 08:21 PM

I snipped the rest of your post as it does not deal with the point I am making.

Also you forgot to subtract the weight of the remaining steel from your two billion pound estimate.

So, we snip the rest of the facts in the quoted article? Interesting.

DrEd

Ed Ward MD

Sep 30 2009, 08:41 PM

JFK

Sep 30 2009, 08:21 PM

I snipped the rest of your post as it does not deal with the point I am making.

Also you forgot to subtract the weight of the remaining steel from your two billion pound estimate.

So, we snip the rest of the facts in the quoted article? Interesting.

DrEd

DoYouEverWonder

Oct 1 2009, 04:31 AM

Ed Ward MD

Sep 30 2009, 08:41 PM

JFK

Sep 30 2009, 08:21 PM

I snipped the rest of your post as it does not deal with the point I am making.

Also you forgot to subtract the weight of the remaining steel from your two billion pound estimate.

So, we snip the rest of the facts in the quoted article? Interesting.

DrEd

Hey JFK,

Is this what you're looking for?

http://cryptome.info/wtc-fk/wtc-fk-full.htm

There are a number of very nice hi res images from the Fresh Kills landfill. The firetruck pics are in there.

Ed Ward MD

Oct 1 2009, 11:06 AM

Wonder, Thanks. I found a link to cryptnome, but it did not work on google. My pics were straight off the gov site and based on what is stated, I'd say nome got them from the same place I did. Have tried to upload pics here, but can't seem to get past the secondary site? Anyway, if you have an email account - I can email them to you with no problem.

BTW, jfk, I go by Ed or Dr Ward and find Mr a diminutive term, but suit yourself.

DrEd

Ed Ward MD

Oct 1 2009, 11:15 AM

Most likely it's in my notes. But, based on recent google searches doubt it's still up. For some reason, some of the links used have a tendency to not work after a week or two after my articles come out. The link would be about 3 years old now. Somewhere, I have the nuke program used that calculated the fireball size, etc, for nukes - would be nice to have it parked somewhere too.

DrEd

JFK

Oct 1 2009, 09:35 AM

DoYouEverWonder

Oct 1 2009, 04:31 AM

Ed Ward MD

Sep 30 2009, 08:41 PM

JFK

Sep 30 2009, 08:21 PM

It is too bad however that even those ( at least the first one I checked ) are compressed ( VT-Compress (tm) Xing Technology Corp. ) and have had the exif data stripped.

exif data interesting. I checked the jpg on my drive via http://regex.info/exif.cgi . Amazing the amount of information available via exif. When I d/led em, I used the best quality xfer available - so IMO - absolutely not an expert on photography, the jpgs were compressed at the site - unless we both d/led using the same compression - to my knowledge I did NOT use ANY compression. As an aside for those investigating stuff with pics - an excellent little tool. Use it on your own pics - a surprising amount of information can be obtained.

DrEd

Edited by Ed Ward MD, Oct 2 2009, 07:30 PM.

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Nuclear weapons

Tritium is widely used in nuclear weapons for boosting a fission bomb or the fission primary of a thermonuclear weapon. Before detonation, a few grams of tritium-deuterium gas are injected into the hollow "pit" of fissile plutonium or uranium. The early stages of the fission chain reaction supply enough heat and compression to start DT fusion, then both fission and fusion proceed in parallel, the fission assisting the fusion by continuing heating and compression, and the fusion assisting the fission with highly energetic (14.1 MeV) neutrons. As the fission fuel depletes and also explodes outward, it falls below the density needed to stay critical by itself, but the fusion neutrons make the fission process progress faster and continue longer than it would without boosting. Increased yield comes overwhelmingly from the increase in fission; the energy released by the fusion itself is much smaller because the amount of fusion fuel is much smaller. The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter A nuclear weapon derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions of fusion or fission. ... Boosted fission weapons are a type of nuclear bomb that uses a small amount of fusion fuel to increase the rate, and thus yield, of a fission reaction. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ... An electronvolt (symbol: eV) is the amount of energy gained by a single unbound electron when it falls through an electrostatic potential difference of one volt. ...


Besides increased yield (for the same amount of fission fuel with vs. without boosting) and the possibility of variable yield (by varying the amount of fusion fuel), possibly even more important advantages are allowing the weapon (or primary of a weapon) to have a smaller amount of fissile material (eliminating the risk of predetonation by nearby nuclear explosions) and more relaxed requirements for implosion, allowing a smaller implosion system. Variable yield, or Dial-a-yield, an option available on most modern nuclear bombs, allows the operator to specify a bombs yield, or explosive power, allowing a single design to be used in different situations. ...


Because the tritium in the warhead is continuously decaying, it is necessary to replenish it periodically. The estimated quantity needed is 4 grams per warhead.[1] To maintain constant inventory, 0.22 grams per warhead per year must be produced. A B61 nuclear bomb in various stages of assembly; the nuclear warhead is the bullet-shaped silver cannister in the middle-left of the photograph. ...


As tritium quickly decays and is difficult to contain, the much larger secondary charge of a thermonuclear weapon instead uses lithium deuteride as its fusion fuel; during detonation, neutrons split lithium-6 into helium-4 and tritium; the tritium then fuses with deuterium, producing more neutrons. As this process requires a higher temperature for ignition, and produces fewer and less energetic neutrons (only D-D fusion and 7Li splitting are net neutron producers), LiD is not used for boosting, only for secondaries. Lithium hydride (LiH) (also known as Lithium deuteride, when the deuterium isotope of hydrogen is used for the hydrogen component) is a compound of lithium and hydrogen. ... General Name, Symbol, Number lithium, Li, 3 Chemical series alkali metals Group, Period, Block 1, 2, s Appearance silvery white/gray Atomic mass 6. ... Deuterium, also called heavy hydrogen, is a stable isotope of hydrogen with a natural abundance in the oceans of Earth of approximately one atom in 6500 of hydrogen (~154 PPM). ...

Main article: nuclear weapon design

The first nuclear weapons, though large, cumbersome and inefficient, provided the basic design building blocks of all future weapons. ...
Controlled nuclear fusion

Tritium is an important fuel for controlled nuclear fusion in both magnetic confinement and inertial confinement fusion reactor designs. The experimental fusion reactor ITER and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) will use Deuterium-Tritium (D-T) fuel. The D-T reaction is favored since it has the largest fusion cross-section (~ 5 barns peak) and reaches this maximum cross-section at the lowest energy (~65 keV center-of-mass) of any potential fusion fuel.