Shorter Critique of Bazant, the Master Mechanical Engineer

For his WTC work he:

1) used a completely improbable assumption for floor collisions-- perfectly inelastic

2) used a clearly false assumption in setting up equations for collapse-- crush up, then crush down-- when logic and the physical evidence shows the opposite

3) used an improperly large average particle size to calculate energy required to pulverize concrete-- thus vastly under-estimating the energy required

4) failed to account for and calculate the efficiency of concrete pulverization

5) failed to account for energy required to propel massive steel columns away from the towers

6) initially failed to account for energy needed to expel tons of concrete dust

7) used a flawed and completely unrealistic model of symmetrical column buckling to calculate energy involved in initial floor collapse...


But I'm just a dumb blogger and he's the expert, so let's just trust him-- right?