Re: Fuel cell powered electric bicycle

["Edward C. Kellogg" <kiro3838@gte.net>]

on 6/30/00 06:22, Dennis Hawkins at n4mwd@amsat.org wrote:

> I have the Challenger explosion firmly etched into my mind.  The day
> it exploded, it was literally the only cloud in the sky.  Of course,
> some of the people here would attempt to justify it by saying that
> they must have been carrying a load of propane or something.  Face it
> folks, Challenger was a hydrogen-oxygen explosion on a grand scale.

Face it, it was a liquid oxygen explosion on a grand scale. Liquid oxygen
when mixed with just about anything is explosive. As an example of this, I
once downloaded a set of instructions and a video of some deranged professor
in Texas using liquid oxygen to start a pile of charcoal for a barbeque. The
important thing was have a bricquette already lit so the whole pile would
flame up at once. Otherwise, the oxygen would soak in and each bricquette
would explode with the force of a stick of dynamite. By the way, the
charcoal was copletely gray and ready to cook on in two seconds.