Posted: Jun 18, 2017 2:20 am
psikeyhackr wrote:Thommo wrote:psikeyhackr wrote:Just providing an impressive number for the amount of Potential Energy does not solve the problem when you really can't even prove the number is correct if you don't know the mass of steel and concrete on every level.
If you don't give a shit about an error of a factor of more than 10, why do you give a shit about a possible error of less than a factor of 3?
If you do not have any data on the amount of energy required to crush the lower 85 stories of the north tower then how can you compute any factor of error?
Very, very, very, very, very, very, very easily.
The difference between a uniform distribution showing 4,500 tonnes per story and a picture showing 1,500 tons per story (for that section of the building) is 4,500/1,500 = 3.
The difference between the calculation in the post which claims to be the kinetic energy of 29 stories at 4,500 tons each at 12.5 m/s and the correct calculation for those figures is 9,249/885.9 = 10.44.
And 10.44 is a larger number than 3.