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Yes industries like welding have been using high-pressure tanks for decades, but that's not high pressure tanks that are traveling at 70 miles an hour in a tigh
by Dobbs 18y ago
Yes industries like welding have been using high-pressure tanks for decades, but that's not high pressure tanks that are traveling at 70 miles an hour in a tight corridor surrounded by hundreds of other cars that likewise are traveling at 70 mph. Can you say chain reaction?
Compressed air is far more dangerous than gasoline. Gasoline is not a guaranteed explosion more likely its a fire.
- ars 18y agoI would like to see that in action, because it seems to me that allowing gas to expand that fast is going to drop the temperature of the gas so low it'll probably freeze CO2 out of the air. And that process will probably rob a lot of the explosive force. Can you compress gas so much that if it exploded it would liquefy? With a quick google I couldn't find an equation relating pressure drop to temperature in real air (not ideal gas).
- noonespecial 18y agoI think its worth mentioning that explosion is not the danger we should be thinking about when it comes to gasoline. Gas is a low viscosity, oily (duh) substance held in flimsy metal or plastic containers that ignites easily and is hard to put out. We are comparing the danger of being injured by the compressed air explosion with the danger of being burned severely by sprayed or leaked fuel. Sign me up for the shrapnel because burns suck huge.
- noonespecial 18y agoHave you never driven behind a welding supply truck with all of those tanks rattling and smashing around back there? Some of those tanks are both under extremely high pressure and contain explosive gases.