Circuit design help - power supply - Non FIRST

[Danny Diaz]

Originally Posted by petek

There have been tests that show when bottled hydrogen is about the same reaction as gasoline in a car if it were to get into an accident, possibly safeR.

This discussion brings back memories of the '96 Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) worked with the City of Atlanta and several companies in the Atlanta area to work on and demonstrate a hydrogen/electric hybrid bus to publicize Atlanta's efforts to help reduce air pollution (and also assess the performance of such a hybrid). I was unfortunate enough to come in just after the bus was developed and put into its short-term service, but I did get to ride the bus before it was shut down. Anyway, the designers and the City were extremely cautious about the bus and its fuel supply - so cautious the bus had hydrogen sensors running up and down the bus (outside and inside) in a fairly dense grid tweaked such that it could detect the smallest amount of hydrogen on the bus. It was tweaked so tight that the bus eventually got the moniker, "The Rooty Tooty Mobile", after the fact that passing gas on the bus would cause the sensors to go off and force the immediate evacuation of everyone on the bus. After one and a half days in service it was retired from active service as a shuttle bus and was used for research purposes from then on.

-Danny