I've been looking to see if there are any building demolitions which have utilized LTC technology. Here is another patent application '
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U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/659,677 filed Mar. 8, 2005.
The page is here
If you read carefully the invention is designed for cutting efficiently by the use of casings and nozzles, and must be firmly attached by use of bolts to the material to be cut. This type of device would also require a steel column, for example, to be completely exposed so the device could clamp around it. It is clear that any structure which is to be affected would require a great deal of careful preparation, but one can imagine it would be a safe and useful tool when dismantling a large ship, for example, in a scrap yard.
As expected, a LTC is not as fast as a high-explosive cutting charge, but is safer because there is no ultra-high velocity shockwave which could endanger workers. The ultimate speed is not important for metal scrapping or dismantling, and one section of a structure can be safely addressed at a time. For this reason it is fairly obvious that this type of device has no known application in terms of replacing high explosives for large building implosions.
Taking something apart piece by piece? Yes, it's designed for that.
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While the projected thermite charge particle stream is a slower reaction than that of an explosively driven jet, it is very fast from the perspective of the operator. The anticipated timing for material penetration is typically on the order of hundreds of milliseconds.'
A typical building implosion requires sometimes dozens of carefully timed cutter charges in order to get
a) key structure out of the way exactly when needed
b) a desired sequence and direction of building implosion so as not to damage surrounding urban environments
There's no indication that LTC was designed for or has been used for implosions. Annoyingly when one attempts to search for such applications one just runs into dozens of 9/11 conspiracy websites postulating the use of thermite.... doh! Lots of chaff but no wheat so far..