[Land-speed] Fw: Ford's Hydrogen 999 racer shooting for fuel cell land speed record > Hybrid News

[drmayf]

Very phunny, Dan...  there is another scary part of the facilities 
there. Rocketdyne also had a small sodium breeder ( I think it was a 
sodium breeder) reactor up there somewhere and the stuff  leaked. Since 
Boeing now owns Rocketdyne, they are liable for the cleanup. 

mayf
dan warner wrote:

> Ed,
>  
> Google "creation of the Santa Susanna pass".
>  
> DW
>
> */Ed Weldon <23.weldon at comcast.net>/* wrote:
>
>     Mayf-- Ahhhh.........I told you I'd defer to folks who knew more
>     about it
>     than me. I remain skeptical though on both sides. To me we'd best
>     err on
>     the side of caution. That 2%-98% range is scary. But still that
>     needs to
>     be measured against the rapid difusion rate of the tiny hydrogen
>     molecules.
>     What do we know about the postmortem analysis of that Santa Susana
>     event?
>     Interesting subject. You got any good Google search words to try?
>     Ed
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: "drmayf"
>     To: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon at comcast.net>
>     Cc:
>     Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:34 PM
>     Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Fw: Ford's Hydrogen 999 racer shooting
>     for fuel
>     cell land speed record > Hybrid News
>
>
>     > well, Ed, you would be wrong about the really big bang part. Back in
>     > Apollo days there was a free hydrogen explosion at the Rocketdyne
>     > facility in Santa Susana. They detanked stage 2 from the Saturn
>     rocket
>     > system which used Hydrogen as the fuel. The hydrogen was allowed
>     to boil
>     > off into the atmosphere. Something set it off. For just about a mile
>     > around the complex, every window was blown inward trailer
>     complex was
>     > crushed, cars were mashed and windows blown in, eardrums were
>     ruptured.
>     > And as I recall, the upper and lower explosive limits for h2 are
>     2% and
>     > 98% in air. So inside a closed race car it can get concentrated
>     enough
>     > to explode, not burn. Explode.
>     >
>     > mayf