Hydrogen is dangerous! We used it in labs at P&G and it would self ignite at
any leak just from the friction. And remember the Hindenberg? Hydrogen!!! I
still like corn alcohol, safer, and we can run 12:1 compression on the street.
Anyway don't think Hydrogen.
John Backus
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Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected the expected?
---- Ed Weldon <23.weldon@comcast.net> wrote:
> FWD with appropriate editing.
> EW
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
> To: "joseph lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>; "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>;
> "Wester Potter" <wester6935@comcast.net>
> Cc: "list LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:30 PM
> Subject: Re: Car of your future?
>
>
> > I firmly believe hydrogen has a great future as a motor fuel. But I favor
> > the far more elegent way of transporting it by attaching it to carbon
> atoms
> > to create an easy to handle, measure, store and dispense liquid form we
> know
> > as alcohol. The non-poisonous form ethanol when made from plant
> precursors,
> > by the way, uses carbon atoms already in our atmosphere rather than from
> > fossil sources. I'm betting on chemistry to find better and more
> efficient
> > ways of delivering hydrogen based fuels than as a compressed gas. I think
> > any large scale commitment to the use of compressed hydrogen gas as a fuel
> > for transportation or any other industrial/commercial energy conversion
> will
> > be an exercise in political folly. And I don't invest in folly or vote for
> > fools.
> > Ed Weldon
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