I am finally caught up with reading all the postings, and I fully expected someone to have pointed out the obvious way to stop a runaway condition... Shut off the hydrogen!! Has it not been said NUMEROUS times that the thing stops very quickly after the hydrogen supply is shut off??
I MUST be missing something here... That's too simple, and I'm the slow one of the bunch! If that won't reverse the runaway condition fast enough, inject a contaminating gas... Perhaps, of all things, steam? I have to disagree about Jed's assertion of how long and difficult it will be to make the thing 'safe'... There are thousands of top-notch engineers who could devise any number of solutions and safeguards in no time at all. But if regulatory agencies have to also approve it, all I can say is I hope I live long enough to at least see it approved! -Mark -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 3:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Pycno or no? Terry Blanton wrote: > Based on this (gross) assumption, some really good feedback controls > are going to be required on a commercial product. Whether that is true or not, one thing seems certain to me: it would lunacy to install thousands of these machines without regulations, and without first spending billions of dollars to ensure safety. [...deleted...]
