Re:Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall sinc...
by r00fus on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:36PM
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And hydrogen substrate isn't similar?
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Re:Climate change: US emissions in 2020 in biggest fall sinc...
by philipkglass on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:51PM
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Hydrogen is not toxic by inhalation, but it's a much worse explosion/fire risk.
Hydrogen is flammable when mixed with air between 4% and 75%, and it takes a minimum energy of 0.016 millijoules to ignite. Ammonia is flammable between 15% and 28% and takes 680 millijoules to ignite. It takes much more energy to ignite ammonia and there's a much narrower range of mixtures with air where it can support combustion.