Loading ...Here is a bunch of real scientists, engineers and businessmen discussing how crazy it is to use Hydrogen as a ‘Green’ energy source….
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When I was ‘at Leeds’ being all studenty and stuff, the Students Union would have Lunchtime Lectures in a large room/hall there was inside the Union Building’
All sorts of stuff went past – it might be argued that that was/is what a Classical Education should be. NOT specialisation in one vanishingly small/esoteric subject
Anyway, one of those lectures I especially recall was exactly about ‘fuels’ and Flame Speeds.
Well organised and presented session most notable for a couple of glass tubes/pipes, maybe 3 or 4 inch diameter that were set up along the front of and under the stage. easily 25 feet long, the full width of the hall.
The presenter ahd all the usual tat, balloons filled with gas, mini flares, burners and chimneys but the finale of the show was these pipes.
They were loaded/primed with ‘flammable stuff’ like petrol vapour, diesel fumes, town gas, carbon monoxide etc etc mixed with Oxygen.
Then a ‘light’ was attached at one end and you could actually see the flame speed as the ‘stuff’ burned along the lengths of these glass pipes. You could ‘time’ some of them with your wristwatch
Most all of them were pretty glacial really – you easily tell the different flame speeds.
Then he filled one of the tubes with hydrogen and lit it.
He advised that folks covered their ears just as he did.
T’was probably The Last Thing/words anyone near the front heard for the whole of the next week
Never mind ‘just blowing the doors off’, it shook the entire building and if you ever met Leeds Student Union you will be impressed
THAT was Hydrogen. just wow, truly crazy stuff