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by bell-cot 886 days ago
Gasoline is an easily-contained liquid. Gasoline-vapor/air mixtures explode under relatively limited circumstances. Vs. hydrogen is a difficult-to-contain gas, the concentration range for hydrogen/air to be explosive is extremely wide, and triggering the explosion is extremely easy.
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While I do not argue the explosive nature of it, safety can be improved by embracing how fast it disperses. Think Toyota went that path with interleaved fibers in their containers' outer enclosures, to augment that effect, so it isn't sufficient for an explosion to occur.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVeagFmmwA0

(Edit: added Toyota's test where they shot an hydrogen tank, you can see the fibers and the gas dispersion)

True.

But a hydrogen / air mixture is explosive from 4% hydrogen to 74% hydrogen, Americans love their attached garages, and most attached garages feature a perfectly-placed electric spark detonator...er, I mean electric garage door opener...which is triggered daily.

Fair