[SPAM] - Re: [TheForge] Spontanious Combustion - Email found in subject

[Jeffrey Polaski]

Not that I know anything about this, but it seems to me that if coal
were at all prone to spontaneous combustion then we'd have more coal
mine fires... After all there are millions/billions of pounds of it just
laying around in mines. If it has to do with the oxygen then you'd think
open-pit coal mines would be burning up all the time.

Does anyone know it these fires are caused by the coal spontaneously
combusting; or sparks or some other cause? 



Jeff Polaski
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University of California, Irvine
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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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