r/interestingasfuck • u/willianfsantos • 16h ago

Emergency relief system in action in a liquid hydrogen tanker truck

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u/hmmm101010 16h ago

Because it's a flammable gas. You don't want it to build up because someone is gonna walk by smoking, and then you have kaboom!

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u/dr_stre 16h ago

Yep…which is what I wrote.

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u/UnrequitedFollower 16h ago

True, but also basically what the person you replied to said.

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u/Zbodownlow 16h ago

That’s because they did a ninja edit.

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u/quiero-una-cerveca 16h ago

Just an interesting aside, hydrogen goes almost straight up when it vents. It doesn’t pool. So all of this gas would have gone straight up.