Aragorn said:It is a simple matter to calculate the amount of energy required to vaporize the steel in the upper 110 floors in one of the WTC towers.
E=(CS∆T1+CF +CL∆T2+CV)M=5.7×1014J (Equation1)
The terms in the equation relate to the energy required to raise the steel from room temperature to the melting point, change phase from solid to liquid, raise the temperature from the melting point to the boiling point, and change phase from liquid to gas, respectively.[3]
If you consider that this amount of energy, 5.7 ×1014 J , which is only 50% of the energy required to vaporize all the steel from both towers was pumped into the towers during the collapse time, approximately 10 seconds, then the power necessary to vaporize the steel would be 5.7x1013 Watts. This is over 5 times the total power output of the entire earth[26] including all carbon combustion, nuclear power, wind power, hydroelectric power, etc. This is with no loss (pg 5).
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The minimum amount of power required to dissociate the steel in one of the WTC towers is astronomically large, over 5 times the total power output of the world. A very conservative estimate of loss mechanisms swell this to at least thousands of worlds of power. Any method used to dissociate steel would require at least this massive amount of energy. Any mechanism claiming to dissociate the steel with less than the minimum required energy is breaking fundamental tenets of physics and can be labeled a perpetual motion machine. Power requirements were shown to be absurdly large to vaporize half of the steel in both WTC towers. Since the power requirements are so large, any hypothetical beam weapon would necessarily be ground based. Any reflecting satellite, if we falsely assume the reflector would survive, would require unrealistically colossal thrust to oppose the momentum transfer of the beam (pg 14).
So, in trying to 'crush' Wood's work, he actually wound up supporting the evidence that 9/11 was 'out of this world'.