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by thsksbd 886 days ago
Hydrogen is significantly more dangerous than gasoline; and gasoline is crazy dangerous as it is.

Lower spark energy Broader range of combustibility Faster detonation speed (? [1])

It's only positive is it dissipated quickly, but that's not that great because it goes boom boom at 5% H2 -air. Everyone I know who has worked on combustion problems (I haven't myself, but colleagues have) give H2 a lot of respect.

[1] this one is an educated guess on my part based on the thermo.

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>Lower spark energy. Broader range of combustibility ...

But not at the same time. That is important because H2 has such a wide ignition range. At the lower end of concentration it isn't much easier to ignite than other things. A readable discussion:

* https://h2tools.org/bestpractices/hydrogen-compared-other-fu...