Just another conspiracy theorist ! Yes; any fuel, be it wood, coal, gas, jet fuel or burning snapping turtles, unless it meets the required 2700+ degrees F,
won't melt steel..DUH..but any fuel, be it coal, gas, turpentine, firewood or chicken fat..if it meets the right temperature, it will melt steel ! Rather simple, no ?
A little home experement: Put several hershey bars on a plates, say the bars melt at 100 deg F..apply heat to each by different sources..wood, gas, hairdryer,
oven and hoty water..all bars will melt at 100 F, no matter what the heat source...Duh..
Suire, we see highway accidents where there is burning fuels..gasoline, diesel, motor oil and perhaps in some cases marshmallows; but burning in the open,
without any bellows or venturi effect, one never sees heavy steel melt. Aluminum or other non-ferrous metals perhaps, but not heavy steel !
The blacksmith knows that his coal forge will not melt steel without pushing the air to it; that is exactly why we have bellows, blowers etc on forges ..Duh..
Your fellow conspirator who says he is a blacksmith has apparently intentionally overlooked the major point that was made by myself and the engineer that
was posted earlier in this thread...NAMELY:
THE STEEL DID NOT HAVE TO MELT IN ORDER FOR THE BUILDINGS TO COLLAPSE !!!
As I and the engineers at Popular Mechanics stated (no guns here, pg 3 , post #65), the steel glows red at a much lower temperature 800-100 degrees at
which point it is greatly diminished in strength, likely over 50%. !The steel could still be at black heat and be greatly weakened, I'm guessing 40-45% less strength..
How much over load was engineered into the structures ? I don't know, and I doubt you and the conspiracy tinhatters do !