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To: Eleutheria5

Hydrogen is a bitch to work with due to hydrogen metal embrittlement and the fact it leaks. However, it is a great fuel relative to weight and power produced. If all the problems can be solved, it will be Elon Musk’s engineers that do it. I wish him well.


4 posted on 04/07/2024 12:22:05 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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To: cpdiii; Eleutheria5
... hydrogen metal embrittlement and the fact it leaks.

Two very hard to beat critical problems.

But it does go BANG real good, if you like vertical acceleration.

18 posted on 04/07/2024 12:39:42 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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I was wondering about embrittlement. Maybe if they use a fuel cell it’s less of a problem but fuel cells are expensive


22 posted on 04/07/2024 12:47:41 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: cpdiii

Only two words..Hindenburg.


33 posted on 04/07/2024 1:28:28 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Years ago I toured a hydrogen fueling facility operated by a large transit agency. The biggest issues they had were the constant leaks, with resulting spontaneous combustion with an invisible flame! That and the 10,000psi tank pressure! The test buses never really ran, program was a total failure. Millions wasted.


36 posted on 04/07/2024 1:32:48 PM PDT by ten18
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...most likely the H2 is from Natural Gas production, water hydrolysis is a net energy loser.

Another corn-ethanol boondoggle in the making, probably!?


64 posted on 04/07/2024 4:54:49 PM PDT by JJBookman (Democrats = Party that can't do math)
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