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Correct. A black powder explosive in a pvc pipe would barely make a dent in the side of a wooden residential structure. It would not collapse it or even cause serious injury to people inside the home most likely. Such a device would have zero impact (beyond fear and cosmetics) on a concrete reinforced steel structure.Did you read my comments on the methodology? Let's put it plainly. People putting together homemade black powder bombs ( black powder is available online for 25-55 dollars a pound and actually works) in PVC pipe are neither knowledgeable or sophisticated. They scarcely qualify as rank amateurs. Zero clue, my ass. I have enough damned clue to tell smoke from fire. This isn't much besides blowing smoke up the gullible people's asses.
Assuming they got the bombs together, and remember they are LOW explosive in a lightweight casing that has almost no fragmentation effect and not much better containment that the newspaper firecrackers used to be wrapped in so the explosion can build up power, what leads you to think that they could either plant them or detonate them. These guys are clowns. Remember that the Boston Marathon bombing was so terribly effective because they were contained in heavy pressure cookers where the top lugged on . That meant a greater explosion and fast moving heavy shrapnel, something that lightweight PVC and the glued on ends won't do.
Now, go study some basic physics and use some common sense before you accuse one of us of not having a clue. You're right about my posting history. How often has it been me that was clueless.

