On 8/10/2015 5:05 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
Moose, was there any mention of safety precautions in the storage and refueling of hydrogen, or do they avoid that
like the plague?
They talked a lot about the safety of the tanks in the car, but not about
storage and refueling.
Hydrogen storage at high pressure is conventional tech. And refueling is pretty well tested. Our local public
transportation system, AC Transit, ran an earlier test with two buses and now has twelve running regular routes, fueled
daily. One is up over 200,000 mi. So they pretty much know that the fueling connections work. In fact, the only close
station for us would be at the AC Transit yard, where they have added a public refueling station.
It may be useful to remember that hydrogen, unlike many flammable gasses, is much lighter than nitrogen and oxygen. Any
leak would shoot up and away faster than a hydrogen balloon.
Remember the Hindenburg, and that the films show only the fire in the covering fabric and the gondola. The hydrogen
fire, which was started by the conventional fire, burned almost invisibly above the frame, doing no damage on its own.
Lighter Than Air Moose
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