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Perhaps you could fill it with hydrogen? I'm not sure if that's a joke or not. Hydrogen in a closed-cell matrix seems like it would be a lot better contained a
by marshray 13y ago
Perhaps you could fill it with hydrogen? I'm not sure if that's a joke or not. Hydrogen in a closed-cell matrix seems like it would be a lot better contained and stable than in a bag-of-gas like the Hindenberg.
But this stuff is open-cell, so perhaps seal it into manageable-size beads? Looks like it might hold up to temperature pretty well.
Alternatively, this stuff could be used to produce a lighter-than-air structure in a process that somehow consumes it.
- lmm 13y agoYou don't want your hydrogen contained, you want to be able to vent it quickly in case of fire.
- lostlogin 13y agoWow - I would have thought that risked an even more exciting event with rocket propulsion. Is venting really the standard way?
- marshray 13y agoDuring the whole hydrogen car discussion, it was said that hydrogen contained in a matrix was much safer because it would burn in a controlled fire rather than an explosion. Venting hydrogen quickly into an oxygen-rich atmosphere would be silly.