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Re: Alternete Fuel Sources
On Tue 22-Apr-1997 1:01p, davidl@cfmc.com wrote:
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> BG> There are a few ways you can do it:
> BG> 1) Compressed gas - just compress in and put it into a high pressure
> BG> tank.
> BG> This has three dangers - the first is corresion will weaken the tank and
> BG> cause a failure - second, is damage to the tank (in combat for example)
> BG> could cause an explosion or (more likely) a fire -
>
> Why would it explode? Flames I can see, but explode?
>
DL> When a flamable gas is ignited under pressure it expands quickly, and in
DL> Hydrogen's case, generates a hell of a lot of heat. It could be as
DL> simple as a hydrogen filled balloon, you're still going to get a small
DL> explosion.
Yes, it can explode, but it requires alot of air mix to do it and I just don't
see it with a damaged tank.
> third, compressing a
> BG> flamable gas is tricky in primitive situations.
>
> As would be cracking crude to refined petrolium. However, if the tech and
> some basic equiptment survived past TEOTWAWKI, I could see some pockets of
> tech like hydrogen production/storage surviving. Especially where crude is
not
> available.
>
DL> The problem is that it requires a lot of energy to crack water, and that
DL> energy could easily go to other things. I suppose if the energy was in
DL> abundant enough supply (a la a still functioning Hydroelectric dam after
DL> the Woops) that it wouldn't be that big a deal.
Who has to have a still functioning hydroelectric dam? It's easy enough to
build your own hydrosystem that will generate enough power to do the cracking.
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