Windpower

[Tim Streater]

You would at a petrol station. You'd see the fluid and smell the evaporated fuel. Compared to H2 which wouldn't need to evaporate, being a gas already, and which has no smell.

[Andy Burns]

Is it practical to add a odorant to H2 similar to natural gas?

Sounds like it is ...

[Chris Hogg]

In the days of the Hindenburg, they used garlic.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Depends wehat you mean by comfort break. Asssuming motorways 500 miles at 70mph is 7 hours solid.

I have done that non stop except for fuel and a piss on several occasions, so if the tank had been larger I would have BUT that is the limit.

Last year I had to drive to Koblenz which I did non stop once off the ferry except that since the whole shebang was about 10 hours staring in the small hours, I ran out of sleep and had to have 40 winks on the autobahn lay by

[The Natural Philosopher]

I remember that one but couldnt find it on You Tube

[The Natural Philosopher]

Methanol fuel was banned in many forms of motorsport because it burns with no soot.

By the time you know you are on fire its too late.

[jeikppkywk]

Yeah, I have had to do that a few times.

I don?t go to sleep unintentionally, so its fine for me to drive for

10 hours or more with just a stop for more petrol and/or a piss.

[whisky-dave]

I'm betting you piss out teh window as you drive, or have a piss jug in the car.

[Dave Plowman (News]

Of course our Oz troll doesn't know what a motorway is.

You have averaged 70 mph for 7 hours in the UK? Or just on your planet?

You could always look up what a comfort break is. Even without your prostate problems.

So you didn't manage to drive 500 miles non stop?

[Dave Plowman (News]

Must be his Indian heritage.

[The Other Mike]

No irony. Failures of conventional generation happen, but in the case of nuclear they can run for thousands of hours.

940 days, 2.5 years, circa 620MW right round the clock, a total of 14 TWh and around 7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide avoided.

The difference is that a conventional generator be it coal, gas, nuclear or hydro can have a defined and normally positive response to reduced frequency, on a falling voltage or frequency excitation will increase and they also provide genuine inertia to the grid by virtue of the rotating synchronous mass of the generator rotor.

Normally a wind turbine or solar panel is asynchronous and are not capable of frequency or voltage support. They are by design incapable of doing anything constructive in response to a falling voltage or system frequency.

[Vir Campestris]

OTOH you can put the fires out with plain water.

Andy

[Steve Walker]

Easy enough to do, but it is also easy within fueling stations to use fixed detectors to spot leaks.

SteveW

[Steve Walker]

I have done journeys of far longer, into Europe, rotating drivers to ensure rest.

SteveW

[jeikppkywk]

You've lost that bet. Pay with paypal.

[jeikppkywk]

Corse I do, we have plenty of them.

[Andy Burns]

I wondered if hydrogen molecules were too small or light to carry a tracer with them?

That doesn't help with a leaky H2 car in a garage though

[tabbypurr]

doable in daytime decades ago, still doable at night.

[Dave Plowman (News]

In a Tardis, I assume?

Do you ever do any long journeys in the UK?

[The Natural Philosopher]

Oh so have I. Copenhagen to Ejsberg, no ferry that day, turn round and drive back to Cambridge via calais. Just under 24 hours with 20 minutes kip at Aachen