To: Bearcatbob who wrote (26729 ) 1/10/2004 5:11:13 AM From: E. Charters Read Replies (1) | Respond to Hydrogen is no more dangerous than natural gas. It is far less explosive than propane or natural gas. It is 100% less sensitive to explosion or fire from tank penetration than LPG or other gas. It is however more volatile, and tends to leak insidiously through fittings that would be propane leak proof. It would need a higher standard of leak detection and proofing than any other bottled gas. However the spectre that it is somehow dangerously explosive is simply not true. In fact the Hindenburg disaster was more caused or initiated by the highly flammable surface "paint" rather than hydrogen itself. In fact it was a demonstration of the surviability of hydrogen fires, as the flames were not nearly as destructive as methane would have been. People survived they Hindenburg crash. They would probably not have if it were an air crash with liquid fuel which caught fire. If it were put into a carrier and heat evolved, as in iron chips, it is almost totally safe. That has been demonstrated in Germany with experimental programs in buses.
