Combined Gasoline/Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens

98neon writes "This story from Yahoo! News tells of a Shell hydrogen refilling station that has opened in Washington D.C. Six minivans will be the only vehicles refuelling anytime soon. Apparently some of the neighbors are concerned about having a large tank of hydrogen near their homes. Oh come on, what is there to worry about?"

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[exspecto]

molecule on the atomic table

Mod the Shell station....

[JUSTONEMORELATTE]

... wait for it ...
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What about...

[LegendOfLink]

Getting a Mr. Fusion to power a vehicle? I mean, they did it back in 1985!

And that was with a DeLorean.

Blah.

[rackhamh]

Let me know when they start stocking helium... heeheeheeheehee!

So would this help?

[FerretFrottage]

1. Put the tank(s) in a giant vacuum (just be careful when entering and leaving and NO marshmellows allowed within 100m of the tanks)

2. Remove all the O2 from the DC area (mostly likely already in progress based on things we've seen coming from congress and the house...they are breathing something, but I doubt it's just air)

Not Me Man

[Greyfox]

My local electric company has an option you can pick for alternate energy sources. So I get all MY power from burning orphans!

Re: pah

[iocat]

Cosmic rays may be passing through YOU, but those of us opting out of the government mind control programs are protected with simple tinfoil hats.

kaboom

[to_kallon]

where was the kaboom? there was sposed to be an earth shattering kaboom....

Re:Wha? wha? what?

[LiquidCoooled]

Well, I can manage to fit my head into the microwave (was a tight fit, my beany nearly fell off).

But I can't find any way to get it going to test it.

Re: pah

[xaaronx]

Well, if cosmic rays are passing through me, how come I haven't developed amazing powers like the Fantastic Four? Huh?

Re:Hydrogen

[Anonymous Coward]

The Hindenberg was the first thing to come to my mind, too. How could they put this 50 yards away from a school?

Because the Hindenberg would not fit INSIDE a school.

Re: pah

[Rotund Prickpull]

It's not just the explosion hazard - it's used in atom bombs - but it can form many dangerous compounds. [dhmo.org] too.

Re:Hydrogen

[njfuzzy]

Oh My God Will Someone Please Think of the Children

Education

[foetusinc]

The important thing this story points out is the need for more public education on what the risks and benefits of hydrogen are, so there can actually be a coherent public debate.




Like we've ever had one of those.

Does give me an excuse to tell a quick story though to illustrate the total lack of public understanding right now. I overheard this while eating lunch at a dive diner in the Columbia gorge. This guy was holding court at the bar, telling everybody about the wonders of hydrogen:

"So, you remember the guy back in the sixties who got his old car to go 400 miles on a gallon of gas? The one the oil companies paid off? Well, see, what he'd done was figure out a way to use hydrogen right there in his carbuerator! And here's the amazing part: he was using nuclear hydrogen!

"You see, there's two kinds of hydrogen.There's regular hydrogen, and nuclear hydrogen. Nuclear hydrogen is lots faster, and it's what powers the sun. Basically, this guy had a little sun going in his carbuerator, and that's what powered his car for all those miles. I can't believe he didn't kill himself, and really those oil companies did him and us a big favor by paying him off. He would have poisened himself eventually, and if that thing had melted down imagine what would have happened!"

The guy next to him at the bar would kind of nod & grunt every so often while I boggled at the whole thing. There were plenty of other subjects he touched on, but the two kinds of hydrogen almost made me laugh out loud despite myself. I mean, he was so close to something that almost kind of made a little bit of sense, but it was totally drowned out by the idiocy...

Re: pah

[xSauronx]

ive begun to be able to stretch parts of myself longer at will! ha!