[jmacusa]

Hydrogen also goes BOOM!!! if you don’t handle it carefully. Or if you decide to do other things with it. As to filling up cars with it and using it as fuel. I dunno. The Hindenburg comes to mind.

[4rcane]

no thanks, electric car is better than hydrogen car

[cripplecreek]

Hydrogen is an excellent energy source but fossil fuels are much more user friendly.

[Jonty30]

Hydrogen cars are safe. They are designed so that, in the event of a tank puncture, the hydrogen will evaporate before it can do anything.

Also, it wasn’t the hydrogen that was the problem with the Hindenburg. It was the flammable paint they used on the dirigibles.

http://www.airships.net/hindenburg/disaster/myths

[stormhill]

There's more hydrogen in a gallon of gasoline, one of the safest and most efficient fuels available today, than in a gallon of...hydrogen! The production of hydrogen gas is expensive, dangerous and polluting.

[stboz]

Hydrogen also goes BOOM!!!

Yep, and when it burns, it's damn near invisible. That's a real wake-up call if you should run into the flame.

[American Constitutionalist]

Carbon monoxide has almost the same energy density as hydrogen, so were is the fuss about the dangers of carbon monoxide ?

Yes, carbon monoxide is also a combustible.

Humans produce hydrogen as a digestion byproduct every day.

Hydrogen is actually safer in a vehicle than gasoline or LNG, or propane since hydrogen disapates much faster than all of those other fules and does not cling or rather stay on the ground pooling.

There is much hype about what happen to the Hindenburg which is not true.
It was the very flamable paints that they used on the out side of the Hindenburg that caused the initial flames.

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[minnesota_bound]

The democrats would ban hydrogen if it meant the USA would be the global producer of it.