Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: As in nuclear light water reactor designs, high pressure is inherently > unsafe. > > > > Rossi is no paragon of engineering safety and has shown that he has not > learned any nuclear engineering lessons. The use of a large amount of > compressed hydrogen storage is inherently unsafe. >
Focardi said they do not intend to store large amounts of compressed hydrogen. They intend to use electrolysis to generate hydrogen as needed from water. Actually, that can be unsafe too. I would recommend storing very small amounts of hydrogen locally. Small, high pressure tanks are very safe. They are probably safer than conventional natural gas lines for space heating and water heating. My uncle's house blew sky high from that, and you often read about houses blowing up from natural gas leaks. A small tank of H2 is MUCH safer that storing gasoline for your lawn mower in the garage. I have seen three houses burn to the ground from that, one of them incinerating a 5-year-old child (the son of a friend of ours). As I said, we demand much more safety from new technology than old. We should insist that Rossi devices be safe, but if we raise the bar so high that we prohibit the use of small H2 tanks, then we will be stuck with energy systems far more dangerous and polluting than the Rossi device. This is not rational. - Jed
