While I don’t hold a Ph.D. in How Stuff Burns, that doesn’t look to me like the way a cement factory would burn. Cement just kind of sits there, you know? That’s its one job. Two, if you count “not burning” separately.
While I don’t hold a Ph.D. in How Stuff Burns, that doesn’t look to me like the way a cement factory would burn. Cement just kind of sits there, you know? That’s its one job. Two, if you count “not burning” separately.
Warms the cockles of my heart.
When the lesser informed relatives in my family decide to discuss this part of the Middle East and make the argument that the Houthi are freedom fighters I educate them that freedom fighters fight to liberate a country from tyranny not work at becoming the new tyrants. That while the regime in Yemen is a kingdom that has a less than admirable record on human rights, the Houthi are far worse in their quest to establish an Islamic theocracy.
It is in fact possible to do both: be oppressive at home and fight for other people to become unoppressed. Or at least fight to assist another people to swap a foreign oppressor for a domestic one (like the French and Russians who were oppressive at home, and assisted the Americans in swapping one oppressive regime for another).
Actually, cement does seem to involve potentially explosive dust. Not to mention equipment and vehicle fuel storage. Just sayin’.
https://www.worldcement.com/special-reports/17072023/reducing-the-risk-of-dust-explosions/
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/safety-first-explosion-prevention-cement-industry-karsten-brink-floor
I could go on. I am guessing if you hit a cement factory with explosives, you get additional explosions.
Why do your arguments strike me the same way Rosie O’Donnel’s claim that steel doesn’t melt in fire re: 9-11?
Maybe some people don’t grasp the difference between an argument and a counterexample.
Cement dust is NON-combustible. Possibly fuel for kiln ignited which is typically NG but occasionally powdered
coal. Or cement factory had other functions than cement.
No one said cement dust is combustible. Reread. Carefully this time.
Thank you for posting this piece of news. I was completely unaware of the attack on Israel OR the response. I will always stand with Israel – it is the only civilized country in the middle East.
Why there is any building left standing in Yemen is a mystery, adults have been in charge in the US for more than a hundred days now, every last bit of Yemen should have been leveled by the US Navy.
Because that would be a crime against humanity and would invite broad and sustained sanctions against the US?
So these so called “humans” want to destroy us and our way of life, but slower, for now, and that’s okay how?
The Hague Conventions are pretty clear. Economic inconvenience due to shipping being rerouted is not grounds for annihilating a people.
Ask the Muslims about that. They want to annihilate all the non-Muslims. Answer? FAFO. Turn the whole area into glass.
The Houthi do not wear a military uniform and are well known for the methods they employ.
Methods which mirror those used by Hamas Hezbola and Al Quida.
Such as using human shields and hospitals for cover.
Another thing they share is their desire to eliminate Israel and afterwards the subjugation of the western world under an Islamic theocracy (aka ideological driven dictatorship not unlike the third reich)
We’re not looking for grounds to annihilate these people, we have those in abundance. We’re looking for something that says we can’t. Do the Hague Conventions entitle them to bugger the regional shipping? If not, then it’s time those guys died, isnt it?
You have an odd way of defining ‘humanity’. Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah and all stripe of Islamic terrorists have rejected their ‘humanity card’ long ago. Sorry. Their choice.
So no civilians live in Yemen? Pretty sure that “nuking Yemen” involves the mass butchering of civilians.
And you call the Russians evil!?
Nothing would preserve humanity more than turning Yemen to glass. If that stopped radical, murderous Islam dead in its tracks, then the loss of a lightly populated corner of Islam would be worth it.
And BTW … since radical murderous Islam terrorism specifically TARGETS civilians … where is your outrage, Abdul? Ohhhhhh yeahhhhh … your book doesn’t consider infidels to be human.
“So no civilians live in Yemen? ”
Nope, just the Houthis and their supporters. Just like Hamas and the ‘Palestinians’ .
“Pretty sure that “nuking Yemen” involves the mass butchering of civilians.”
There are no civilians if they encourage and support terrorists.
“And you call the Russians evil!?”
Only idiots do that.
I take it, you have not pain much attention to that part of the world?
Aaaand it’s gone !
Media could not be played.
I’d nuke em.
Typical Western war criminal thinking. This is why your life as an aging Western white person is eventually going to suck balls so bad.
By the way, by that logic, Russia can nuke people too?
Whatever, Cousin-fcker.
Oh, you speak from experience do you? Ph@ggit.
stephen green, another PJM leftist twat. Who supports the uke Nazis.
Cement plants use coal in the drying kilns, lots of it. The thing about powdered coal is that it can explode. I know this because I’m witness to big airblasts, such as when the shock wave from a rock blast in a coal mine lifts up coal dust on the floor of the pit, which in turn explodes, like the grain in an elevator on occasion does. People should do more research when they make comments like the ones on this post.
I would guess they use natural gas in the middle east.
They’re using coal. You can see the cement plant at 15.01.58N and 43.15.33E. The coal storage is the long NW/SW trending covered shed I think. Looks like they are mining the coal at a couple of locations locally even though Yemen coal production is alleged to be zero, that’s clearly not true from Google Earth.
Bingo. Thankyou.
Klapper; I was thinking Natural Gas for the kilns, but I guess coal would be the obvious alternative. It would certainly explain the out of control fire.
Where would they source it?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/544848/distribution-of-thermal-coal-exporting-countries-worldwide/
Just to be clear, ‘cement’ refers to Portland cement, the manufactured product used in the making of concrete. The kilns are used to convert Limestone, with other ingredients, into the basic cement, not to be confused with concrete.
“Where would they source it?”
From Google Earth there looks to be mining of coal in a couple of small pits local to Bajil.
The video shows an extensive fire in an area that looks like an ordinary “tank-farm”. While there can be dust explosions at cement kilns, those are pretty much a one-and-done thing, and a fire after such an explosion would be pretty will limited to the area immediately local to the kiln.
Cement kilns can use a variety of fuels for calcining limestone, and the most popular, easiest, and cleanest is natural gas. To me, the extensive fire would indicate that the Yemenis were using liquid fuels for the kiln, which could range from fuel oil, to heavy (bunker) fuel oil, to even raw petroleum crude oil. If they were using liquid fuels, there would be large storage tanks onsite for that fuel, and is consistent with the video of the conflagration.
Tank-farm fires are notoriously difficult to extinguish, and the usual firefighting approach is to let the burning tanks continue to burn until all fuel is consumed. At the same time, lots of water is used to cool nearby tanks and other infrastructure to prevent the spread of the fire.
Oh, and coal is sometimes burned in cement kilns to serve a double duty as a fuel and to incorporate coal fly-ash into the calcined limestone. But you don’t store coal in tanks.
I hear baby aspirin burns too. What with all that powdery aspirin dust. And I hear the Islamic countries are covered in baby aspirin factories.
Ohhhhhhhhh mommaaaaaaaaaa
I thought it was chocolate chip factories?
I hear DARK chocolate is good for you!
I think the US and Israelis should be thanked for helping the Houtis cut down their cement drying costs.
I wonder if they were storing their school supplies at the cement factory. Probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
just a thought, never get an answer to this one, but, curious to ponder; l wonder how much and how many on the woebegotten palestinian side at this point kinda thinking maybe, if only privately to themselves, juuuuuust mebbe october 7 was a huge mistake.
personally and this is gonna sound harsh, lm DELIGHTED to see the ginormous lop-sided death toll. lve ALWAYS felt *that* way about war.
as much l detest violence, what l deeply profoundly detest is the fact THE AGRESSOR HAS NECESSITATED ME UTILIZING THAT THING I SO MUCH HATE.
hmmm. well, ooookay, lets ‘make it worthwhile’. plaster the bejeezuzshyte out of them with an utterly pristine conscience.
ALL the balewailing ye palestinian mothers holding the bloody corpse of a 2 yr old is because of what your neighbors adult kids did on october 7. credit where credit due.
now back to our regular programing.
Unless you propose the extermination of the Palestinian Arabs, I fail to see how annihilating their homes and terrorising and orphaning another generation of kids will lead to lasting peace. What it will mean is that next time the crazies will use a nuke or chemical weapons.
Ariel Sharon knew this. Golda Meir knew this. Yitzhak Rabin knew this. Bibi seems to not know this (and a bunch of other stuff also).
In all likelihood, this latest offensive against Gaza is going to spread Oct 7th mayhem to London, Paris, Toronto.
The Rock Farmers have never wanted peace.
They love death.
And I’m sure the AK47 Crowd, the Ramavaners and Vest Clackers are just waiting for Hamza’s OK to start butchering, murdering, raping, torturing, blah, blah, blah, another day of Islamic normalcy.
“In all likelihood, this latest offensive against Gaza is going to spread Oct 7th mayhem to London, Paris, Toronto.”
Good. When the western world finally feels enough of the pain that the Israelis have been forced to live with for decades now, maybe they will finally come to the realization that Islam is simply *incompatible* with the civilized world…and maybe, just maybe, they will also grow a set of balls and take the appropriate action to defend themselves.
I doubt it. They eat up Islamic immigration, Covid lockdowns, institutionalised degeneracy, climate BS and free stuff like its candy at Christmas.
Unless you propose the extermination of the Palestinian Arabs.
My God. None of the other Muslims countries want the Palestinians.
Do yourself a favor. (History) of the pals and the terror they have brought.