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To: robertpaulsen

Once again, there’s a hydrogen thread and some dolt posts a picture of the Hindenburg.

So that you and others know, the fire you see is the skin of the airship burning NOT the hydrogen.

Hydrogen may or may not be a viable and efficient means of powering our conveyances, but should cars one day be powered by H2, they will not blow up like the Hindenburg.


43 posted on 03/07/2005 11:18:47 AM PST by ElTianti
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To: ElTianti
So that you and others know, the fire you see is the skin of the airship burning NOT the hydrogen.

True. Hydrogen fire burns so hot the flame is almost invisible, so the hydrogen burning at the same time is not visible in the photo.

53 posted on 03/07/2005 11:26:02 AM PST by frgoff
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To: ElTianti
"Hydrogen may or may not be a viable and efficient means of powering our conveyances, but should cars one day be powered by H2, they will not blow up like the Hindenburg."

Promising on the fuel cells. But how did they solve embrittlement issues, I wonder?

As long as the path is short to the combustion chamber, the risk might be ( in case of mishap ), a hot flame, not an explosion. There would need to be some sort of safety system.

156 posted on 03/07/2005 2:42:20 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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