cliveb wrote: > OK, I can't comment on the vulnerability of hydrogen in pipelines, but I > have seen film of a compressed cylinder of hydrogen being shot with an > armour-piercing bullet. Result: well, not a lot, really. The tank didn't > explode, all that happened was a small blue flame burning slowly out of > the bullet hole. > > FYI, I live 6 miles from the Buncefield oil storage depot which exploded > back in 2005. It destroyed the building where my wife worked, and had it > happened during office hours rather than 6am on a Sunday, I would now be > a widower. My feeling is that the storage of gasoline is probably less > safe than hydrogen.
Yes and part of the reason for that is the inefficiency of hydrogen as a fuel. Gasoline holds four times (est) the energy as an equal amount of compressed hydrogen. Therefore gas is four times more explosive, which makes it a far better (more efficient) energy source than (inefficient) hydrogen. Assuming they figured out how to make hydrogen equal to gasoline in efficiency you now have four times the explosive power AND high compression. The tanks are quite safe but it's still compressed hydrogen on every highway and on every street corner (gas station). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105775 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
