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Originally Posted by FNKNSTN
Pops feels the need to prove himself to some internet kid ;-) Been thirty or so years since you left high school I bet.  Congratulations! 
Get back to work gramps. You've got your retirement to think about. Don't let your boss catch you telling off some kiddo on the internet while you're on the clock! |
The anonymity of the internet makes people tough...lol
FYI im 25
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Originally Posted by leviticus88
The answer to hydrogen safety is storing it as WATER. Not as pure hydrogen gas!!!
For example: Instead of separting the hydrogen from water in a big factory and transporting the un-safe hydrogen to "fill" stations, the hydrogn can be produced in the car it's self!
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That would work, but I dont know how "efficient" it would be the energy density is so small you'd need a lot of H2. It also uses quite a bit of energy to split water. Thats how we make O2 on subs electrolosis, and it has to be well sealed, and DC powered. whenever there is a 2:1 ratio of H2, and O2 there is an explosive reaction...so like getting into a car accident would have me worried. lll have to check out that link
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Originally Posted by MrCool
Debate about it, just take out all all the BS in between.
Like this BS:
Now back to the subject:
Does H2 gas crack metals due to a chemical property, or becuse it's just cold? If it is because it is cold, couldn't you have some sort of heating device/insulator?
True, but H2 is expensive to make in the first place also.
I think, overtime, they could develop an electrical sensor or circuit that would automatically notify the driver of an H2 leak, and could possibly give you options for a nessesary action. Besides, I would agree with leviticus88:
That would be ideal, if they could create a car that would reuse the byproducts of its own combustion.
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H2 cracks most metals because of its size, its got the smallest atomic mass. So think of it like helium, how it can diffuse through a balloon. H2 can do the same thing with metal. the problem is that while its passing through, make materials a lot weaker because H2 gathers in the voids of the material creating pressure from within it
yeah its expensive as hell. it costs more to make H2 throught electrolysis than it does to make gas. The thing that Im most worried about is having car accidents with H2 powered cars, given H2's tendancy to spontaneously combust when combined with air.