[Land-speed] Hydrogen Vehicles And Safety>From>Jim McNaul

[Rich Fox]

When I went to work for UAL I had to do heat treat sometimes. The oven ran 
between 1400 and 2000 degrees most of the time. When I wanted to put 
something in the oven I would put on the silver suit, get the big shovel, 
and open it up. The oven had a Hydrogen atmosphere. There was a pipe with 
natural gas forward of the door and a pilot light. This would make a flame 
curtain to keep oxygen out of the oven and away from the very hot hydrogen. 
Sometimes the fire curtain would fail to start. Then the oven would blow up. 
It was noisy, and some times threw a few bricks around. But the operator was 
standing there right in front of it when that happened and I never heard of 
anyone being hurt. What does this tell us about Fords at the salt? I don't 
know.   RF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "drmayf" <drmayf at mayfco.com>
To: <jgmagoo at comcast.net>
Cc: "land-speed-digest" <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 2:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Hydrogen Vehicles And Safety>From>Jim McNaul


> That's a pretty impressive experience base. I wonder how many of them
> have endo'e at B'ville? In a one off car with extra fuel cells and extra
> h2 tanks. With lot sof ice water cooling tanks. I just want inspection
> to be very rigorous when it comes to safety for the driver and any
> response folk who have to potentially clean up a mess.
> mayf
>
>  jgmagoo at comcast.net wrote:
>
>>This was copied and pasted from the article on page two on 
>>www.landracing.com  entitled "Ford To Run Hydrogen Powered Fusion At 
>>Bonneville...."
>>
>>"The company already has a fleet of 30 hydrogen powered Focus fuel cell 
>>vehicles on the road as part of a worldwide, seven-city program to conduct 
>>real world testing of fuel cell technology. The 30-car fleet has 
>>accumulated more than 540,000 miles since its inception in 2005."
>>
>>If Ford Motor Company is comfortable with the liabillity of running 30 
>>hydrogen powered vehicles on the road, 'worldwide, 7-cities',  they must 
>>have the safety aspects pretty well  figured out.