Technical analysis to debunk the regime’s absurd "cause" of fire below!
The "low-speed" collision apparently ignited the fire, Piringer said.
Fire isn’t ignited, flammables are!!
Normally, car radiator cooling fluid is 50% ethylene glycol (50% water)
I designed many chemical, pharmaceutical (propylene glycol instead of ethylene glycol for less toxicity), biochemical and petrochemical plants that used brine (ethylene glycol with different concentrations) as heat transfer medium.
Never was the piping or jacketing full of brine “catching fire” designed for explosion or fire as a scenario. Even the normal plant design for an external fire, engulfing an area of equipment containing brine, was ever designed for a scenario of equipment-containing-brine pouring "flammable brine" to feed said fire!
IOW, BUNK!!!
From the URL below (emphasized additions are mine):
- Flammability of the Product: May be combustible at high temperature. must be even higher at 50% concentration!
- Auto-Ignition Temperature: 398°C (748.4°F) must be even higher at 50% concentration!
http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-Ethylene_glycol-9927167
FYI - smells?
Wow, mel!! I will definitely defer to your knowledge. (Technical stuff ALWAYS go over my head.) I usually go with my intuition and in this case, something stinks...like maybe the “investigation”?
The Arresting Gear Engines used on US NAVY aircraft carriers use ethylene glycol and utilize salt water cooling.