http://www.murky.org/blg/quantum-of-solace/ Tending to Geekiness Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:45:52 -0600 hourly 1 http://www.murky.org/blg/quantum-of-solace/#comment-70309 Patrick Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:46:39 +0000 http://www.murky.org/blg/?p=2349#comment-70309 it will be easy to make spoofs based on Quantum of Solace... so much breaking glass, so many chase scenes, plus almost every plot twist from the last movie was recycled it will be easy to make spoofs based on Quantum of Solace… so much breaking glass, so many chase scenes, plus almost every plot twist from the last movie was recycled

]]> http://www.murky.org/blg/quantum-of-solace/#comment-69759 Jim Horwitz Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:52:38 +0000 http://www.murky.org/blg/?p=2349#comment-69759 I'm a fuel-cell-literate industry analyst, and you've nailed this pretty well Murk. Firstly, the last thing the oft-maligned fuel cell industry needs is perveted bad publicity like this. Not only do current FC CHP (combined heat and power) commercial and residential instalations fit your description, i.e. one fuel cell producing power for the building which is of course transmitted by wires, but hydrogen is just about the least explosive and certainly the most volatile of combustible gases. Natrural gas lines have been installed in buildings for 150 years with only the occasional 'incident' as our local gas company calls thems, and it is far more dangerous than hydrogen as is gasoline and its heavier-than-air vapor. Hydrogen, if it it does leak, rises and dissipates quickly and therefore might burn on its way out, but it would be almost impossible to create an explosion. This 'Quantum' scene plays into two popular misconceptions: 1. The Hindeburg was the result of its hydrogen exploding - The blimp was coated with a form of rocket fuel to help contain the volatile gas, and that caught fire, burned and crashed while the hydrogen, burning or not, quickly rose into the atmosphere, and 2. Hydrogen energy from combustion or fuel cells (which involve no burning) has nothing to do with the hydrogen bomb or the sun's energy, the energy from both of which is produced by fusion under extreme heat and pressure. Not only have there been no major safety incidents concerning the 10's of thousands of fuel cell installations around the world (from toys to the coming new Freedom Tower being built at Ground Zero), but there have been no major safety problems with our liquid hydrogen fuelled space shuttle rockets since the early seventies. I’m a fuel-cell-literate industry analyst, and you’ve nailed this pretty well Murk. Firstly, the last thing the oft-maligned fuel cell industry needs is perveted bad publicity like this. Not only do current FC CHP (combined heat and power) commercial and residential instalations fit your description, i.e. one fuel cell producing power for the building which is of course transmitted by wires, but hydrogen is just about the least explosive and certainly the most volatile of combustible gases. Natrural gas lines have been installed in buildings for 150 years with only the occasional ‘incident’ as our local gas company calls thems, and it is far more dangerous than hydrogen as is gasoline and its heavier-than-air vapor. Hydrogen, if it it does leak, rises and dissipates quickly and therefore might burn on its way out, but it would be almost impossible to create an explosion. This ‘Quantum’ scene plays into two popular misconceptions: 1. The Hindeburg was the result of its hydrogen exploding – The blimp was coated with a form of rocket fuel to help contain the volatile gas, and that caught fire, burned and crashed while the hydrogen, burning or not, quickly rose into the atmosphere, and 2. Hydrogen energy from combustion or fuel cells (which involve no burning) has nothing to do with the hydrogen bomb or the sun’s energy, the energy from both of which is produced by fusion under extreme heat and pressure. Not only have there been no major safety incidents concerning the 10’s of thousands of fuel cell installations around the world (from toys to the coming new Freedom Tower being built at Ground Zero), but there have been no major safety problems with our liquid hydrogen fuelled space shuttle rockets since the early seventies.

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