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Re: hydrogen as a fuel

To: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Subject: Re: hydrogen as a fuel
From: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:20:52 -0800
I could not make this look as if a noob hick typed it if I had tried! I 
really need to learn to type or proof read before I send anything. 
Forgive me the typing mistakes and try and get what I was meaning, lol...

mayf, ashamed of his typing skills....

drmayf wrote:

> If the H@ is used in a fuel cell then it should be ok. Cracking 
> gasoline ot get the H2 is as problematic as the other issues with H2 
> becaus eyo ar left with a a esidue that has to be dumped somewhere, 
> lots of carbon and the other stuff that is in gasoline. Or a special 
> belnd of gasoline that does not have the sulphur, and additives in it. 
> O far it is just a gimmick. As to H2 itself, very volitile. We had a 
> free hydrogen explosion at the Rocketdyne plant in Santa Susanna 
> diring th eApollo days. H2 was bieing boiled off and because it si so 
> cold i thung on the ground mixing with the O2 in the air, then KABOOM. 
> H2 is also the lightest moleculae and gravity willnot hold it to the 
> earth. I tis lost to outerspace. So runnig the H2 systems delpetes the 
> water supply  on earth. Albeit very slowly and onl;y if it leaks intot 
> he atmosphere. And it will.  If you want a good exampleof how 
> exp;osive H2 is, see if you can fill a baloon wiht it. Then stand well 
> back and ignite it with a cigarette on a very long stick. The boom 
> will make your ears ring!  H2 is very nearly explosive at at all 
> levels of concentrations. Imaging a car with a wrecked fuel tank of h2 
> and a spark...much worse, IMHO, than gasoline...
>
> mayf
> Bryan Savage wrote:
>
>> H2 worries me because
>> 1) It's very hard to keep it from leaking. (no, I'm not worried about 
>> fire.)
>> 2) No one has addressed what will happen when we have several cubic 
>> miles
>>     of H2 being dumped in to the atmosphere every DAY.
>>
>> We have learned the hard way about CO2 and other byproducts of the
>> petroleum fuel process. The byproducts of the H2 fuel process are 
>> harmless,
>> but what about H2 it's self????
>>
>> Bryan
>>
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