Luxury skyscraper hotel completely engulfed by fire in Grozny, Chechnya (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

[AtheistCrusader]

71. Not true. Plenty of aircraft have burned in open air down to the steel members

without even the fuel. Hell, the plastics and chairs and luggage and shit inside have utterly destroyed aluminium aircraft.

You also seem to be missing the kinetic energy of the collapse. Every ounce of energy used to lift the building materials from the ground, into place, is actually locked into every ounce of the building in the form of potential energy. Just the collapse, let's say you were a genie, and you could snap your fingers, and the building would be back, in full. Then snap your fingers again, and remove every rivet and weld, so the whole thing comes down. You'd still be releasing an enormous amount of heat. The kinetic energy of the building collapse was on the order of a small nuclear bomb. Hell, there's a whole branch of CT theory about a nuclear bomb being used to trigger the 'demolition', precisely because they don't grok this concept, and have to look in other places to explain the energy.