[TheForge] Spontanious Combustion

[Ries Niemi]

I think it will.
I know that fires in coal bunkers used to be so common as to be 
unmentioned.
The Titanic, for example, had a fire in one of its coal bunkers for at 
least part of its trip.
I heard from a guy who worked in a big power plant here in the USA 
recently that coal bunker fires were a common low level annoyance.
The stuff burns.

ries


On Sep 7, 2006, at 4:53 PM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:

> There was a fire yesterday at a local factory in it's coal bin.  The 
> report
> said that they clamed it was spontanious combustion.  As I recall this
> subject came up earlier this year when one of the guys was looking at
> storing coal in his shop.  And it seemed to be the consensus of the 
> group
> that coal would not spontaniously combust.  Is my memory wrong or are 
> they
> trying to blow smoke up our a** to cover up the real cause of the 
> fire.\?
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
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Ries Niemi
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