Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 12/8/24 7:17 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-12-08, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
 

And consider the explosive force stored in a 350-700 bar (your
AI's number) pressure vessel that becomes brittle enough to go "bang".
That's one hell of a bang, even without the hydrogen itself explosively
combusting as part of the pressure release.

 I've seen the results of a 200-bar scuba tank letting go.
And that's just a little 80-cubic foot tank filled with air.

   I've seen that too - close up. Blew out a reinforced
   CBC wall ...... sheer dumb luck nobody was in the
   filling room at the time or they'd have been Spam.

Plus, the walls of the pressure vessel quite effectively become a
'fragmentation grenade' in the process of going bang.

 <shudder>
 

   High-pressure containers - esp ones that have to
   'cycle' often - are a bomb waiting to go off.
   Fatigue/corrosion take their awful toll - then
   BOOM !
   If the boom is a flammable gas ... far worse.
   Hydrogen CAN have its uses - but at "industrial"
   sites, not out in public. You can feed it into
   expensive fuel cells, you can mix x-percent with
   natural gas.
   But as a general-purpose 'motor fuel' ... NO !
   Besides, no proper infrastructure for it.