Hydrogen is a safe fuel for powering your home, office, school, or vehicle. In fact,
hydrogen is no more or less dangerous than other flammable fuels, including gasoline
and natural gas.
Hydrogen has been safely produced, stored, transported, and used in large amounts in
industry by following standard practices that have been established in the past 50 years.
These practices can be emulated in nonindustrial uses of hydrogen to attain the same
level of routine safety, although safety concerns still exist, as with any flammable
fuel. To address these concerns, industry has developed new safety designs and equipment
to handle hydrogen’s unique properties and behavior.
In testing of hydrogen flammability conducted at Miami University, 3000 ft³/min of
hydrogen was leaked from a vehicle tank and set on fire. The temperature inside
the car rose by only 1°–2°C, while the outside vehicle temperature rose no
higher than the temperature of a car sitting in the sun.
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