Posted on 06/16/2017 7:19:15 AM PDT by pgkdan
In the wake of the ghastly conflagration that engulfed a recently-renovated 24 story apartment tower in London, the world is waking up to the dire threat created by energy-saving green zealots. It turns out that nobody much worried about the fire hazard involved when flammable materials were used to add an outer “skin” of cladding to the building, creating heat insulation thanks to the air pocket between the new cladding and the old exterior wall, but also providing an ideal space for fire to race up the building. As happened.
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Did green fever cause the obvious fire hazard to be ignored? We simply do not know. But the zealotry of those who are convinced that CO2 increases are dooming us could well prioritize energy savings above safety. As seems to have been done in London.
How many more green death traps are out there? Tens of thousands in the UK, but how many in the USA?
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Even American carpenters, when building an old fashioned balloon frame house, had enough sense to put in a “fire stop” between the studs to prevent the chimney effect.
This lie again. Don't like public - go crony capitalist instead. There is no free market in government provided services. The whole notion is an oxymoron.
Fortunately folks are starting to see through the so-called privatization scam.
More like graft. And a contempt for the people the council purports to serve. For instance, I’m wondering if the concern that the tenants would try to impede/impair safety systems installed, say sprinklers or an alarm system, was a consideration in not installing them. Because inspecting the building, making repairs, removing any tenants who screw with the safety systems takes effort, time, and money.
That’s a false choice.
I bought two refrigerators last year that used propane as the refrigerant. Both failed with a week of use but did not explode.
Maybe we need to bring back the old non electric ammonia type that used a very small natural gas flame to make it work.
Benito Obama would refer to it as just a bump on the road to Utopia...
In the past, Ben Franklin wondered about people who would build their homes out of the same fuel they used to cook their food and keep themselves warm in winter.
There is no other choice.
Well, I’ll grant you government does its level best to ensure that the private sector can’t make much money building/renting safe, affordable low-income housing. So why are you blaming the private sector for that?
Like much of the anti-Trump stories, this "green menace" conjecture is a conclusion in search of a story, designed to generate clicks and outrage.
Yeah, the Einstein cycle...
There are 3 issues: What started the fire, what allowed it to spread so quickly (if it did in fact spread “quickly”), and what caused so many people to remain in the building until it became impossible for them to escape or be rescued.
This building had a good number of muzzies in it.
Have you noticed there has been no info available on whether or not the building’s electrical system was up to code?
Yes, additionally why no sprinkler system and why were screams the first audible notice that many had that their building was on fire? It appears to be the collective result of an accumulation of bad and/or criminal decisions.
How about the low-flow toilets! There were articles written a few years ago about how she to low flow toilets there wasn’t enough water in the sewage pipes to push it through so it was getting stuck and backed up and causing corrosion and a bad smell so much so they had to pump with bleach down the pipes. LOL
In the end because the environmental movement is about power control it’s not really about fixing things.
My guess as to the origin of the fire is from some Muslim roasting a goat over a gas cooker in their apartment.
This happens frequently in Mecca after Ramadan and they explode killing dozens.
People reported an explosion followed by a raging blaze.
Local media reported that a rep for the council stated that sprinklers weren’t installed because tenants objected. No idea if that’s true. Even if it is, so what? Is it code? If not why? My bet: they have people who cook and/or smoke in that building, and rather than deal with violators, the council gave in. The whole contempt thing again. The contempt of government for the people it purports to serve.
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