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jeff47

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46. No, the thing about hydrogen

Reply to nationalize the fed (Reply #32)

Sat Sep 6, 2014, 01:09 PM

Sep 2014

is it's really, really small. So it leaks through everything. That makes it rather impractical for vehicles. For example, one of the very last things to disconnect during a space shuttle launch was the pipe topping off the hydrogen tank.

That fueling station you show actually gets most of the hydrogen trucked in, and then uses the "local production" to try and reduce the losses due to leakage.

We either have to come up with some new material that can actually contain hydrogen, or we're going to be using something else. This problem isn't exactly new - the first hydrogen airship was built in 1783. So it seems unlikely that we'll find that new material any time soon.

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