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

[Bryan Savage]

Wow Rich!
Now that is the neatest piece of shop equipment outside of the
aerospace industry I've ever heard of.

I love LN2,
Bryan



Rich Fox wrote:
> 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.
>>>       
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