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To: neverdem

Hydrogen is explosive...right??!


11 posted on 11/27/2004 10:52:42 PM PST by timestax
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To: timestax

So is gasoline and natural gas.


14 posted on 11/27/2004 10:56:39 PM PST by Scarchin (Lone conservative teacher)
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To: timestax
Hydrogen is explosive...right??!

Yes, that was the vivid impression I retained after watching the final results of the electrolysis of water. But so are gasoline tanks, natural gas and the dust in wheat silos, IIRC. This technology might be the only way to get over the hump to dependence on just renewable resources. Nothing is guaranteed, but it certainly needs exploration.

The enviro-nuts wants to return to a hunting and gathering society. Their elites couldn't tolerate that state of affairs and survive. This argument needs to be pressed to the max.

23 posted on 11/27/2004 11:28:21 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: timestax

"Hydrogen is explosive...right??!"

Right, as many a dunce has learned the hard way when charging or jump starting a vehicle and creates sparks near the battery.

As an automotive battery is charged, it generates hydrogen gas, have a spark or high heat near the battery's vents, and the word is, "ka-boom" from an exploded battery.


26 posted on 11/27/2004 11:56:27 PM PST by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: timestax
Hydrogen is explosive...right??!

Yes, but not when it's in a fuel cell. You could shoot bullets into one and nothing would happen.

36 posted on 11/28/2004 2:37:36 AM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: timestax

Let's just say that hydrogen and oxygen share a fatal attraction.


47 posted on 11/28/2004 8:46:32 AM PST by Old Professer (The accidental trumps the purposeful in every endeavor attended by the incompetent.)
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