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...many commercial carriers. But the trigger's precise identity may be disturbingly moot. In a week of technical testimony considerably more alarming than had been expected, safety-board chairman James Hall made it clear that the fuel, transformed from a stable liquid state to volatile vapors by the exhaust heat from air conditioners cooling the plane on a hot July evening, was so combustible that almost anything could have touched it off; that 970 other currently active 747s may be at some risk for the same catastrophe, especially when the air conditioning is overworked; and that, in Hall's opinion...
...huge surprise of last week's testimony was the determination that when a mostly empty fuel tank gets as hot as TWA 800's was (about 145[degrees] at takeoff, because of the 400[degree] exhaust thrown off by air-conditioning units a foot away), the electrical charge necessary to detonate the resulting fumes is roughly a quarter of the smallest spark you feel when scuffing your foot on a rug. Said safety-board officer Peter Goelz: "We had no idea how little energy it took to cause an explosion." Hall remarked, "I for one don't see how every...
...automakers to produce zero-emission vehicles. And, as the country's largest auto market--with 1 of every 7 cars sold in the U.S.--it has the clout. Six years from now, under California rules, 10% of new cars offered for sale--about 100,000 a year--must be exhaust-free. But even with the deadline so close, only GM and Honda Motor Co., have been bold enough to target consumers with their electric cars. Other automakers have focused on government and commercial fleets...
Noise is the least of it. Aircraft exhaust killed a wheat field next to the runway, Pickard says, and several years ago, Pickard's cattle came down with a mysterious affliction--heifers losing weight, their eyes pale and blank. His veterinarian finally traced it to the water supply, Lytle's Creek, which had been contaminated with ethylene glycol from Airborne's de-icing operation. Local environmentalists have met with Airborne's lawyers, and the company is studying the problem. But with winter here, the de-icer is flowing again...
Capitalism failed in China as early as in the Qin Dynasty, and kept failing due to internal and external reasons too much to exhaust. Theocracy, military dictatorship, none of them survived. Socialism is not a choice but a fate, the only way that preserved this feudalistic machine in this modern materialistic world. If that is not why the West hates China, then is it because of its abuse of human rights...