toby10 wrote: > Now you have huge amounts of highly compressed hydrogen flowing through > pipelines, on tanker trucks, over rail, all delivered to every street > corner to (again) sit in highly compressed underground tanks. With > today's crazies/terrorist all over the planet I can just imagine them > exploiting that already volatile mix. To say nothing of the potential > environmental issues should these tanks leak/puncture, whether it be > sabotage or just an honest oooops. :) OK, I can't comment on the vulnerability of hydrogen in pipelines, but I have seen film of a compressed cylinder of hydrogen being shot with an armour-piercing bullet. Result: well, not a lot, really. The tank didn't explode, all that happened was a small blue flame burning slowly out of the bullet hole.
FYI, I live 6 miles from the Buncefield oil storage depot which exploded back in 2005. It destroyed the building where my wife worked, and had it happened during office hours rather than 6am on a Sunday, I would now be a widower. My feeling is that the storage of gasoline is probably less safe than hydrogen. Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105775 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
