Funny, the downvotes from people who (like the CEO, apparently) … don’t have a clue. When you hear a “pop” or a “crunch” from a carbon-fiber wound composite ta

Funny, the downvotes from people who (like the CEO, apparently) … don’t have a clue. When you hear a “pop” or a “crunch” from a carbon-fiber wound composite tank: it means some part of the fiber/resin matrix has delaminated, or allowed intrusion of gas/fluid into its matrix. This means that this layer of the vessel now allows relative motion under torsion or compression. If the intruding material is higher pressure than the average within the matrix — it will push the matrix apart, causing more delaminating, at ever deeper levels (now exposed to the intrusion). At the massive pressure differentials in this situation (800 bar), failure of this vessel once compromised would predictably happen in milliseconds. As it turns out… There was a time people came to HN because of the interesting comments by subject-matter experts. Now, it’s a woke smack down. Sad.