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Subject: Re: [OM] Well, that was fun.
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 17:21:36 -0700
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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