The first danger is not hydrogen volatility. That can be managed with a little mechanical know how and just basic common sense. If you don't try to store hydrogen and just run your vehicle on it as you make it from water the danger would be about like a teaspoon to a cup of gasoline. The difference being hydrogen is the lightest element and wants to go as close to outer space as it can. So hydrogen left to its own devices would kiss outer space. However, if you are making hydrogen through direct current under the hood of your car and much gets loose and your hood compartment is airtight, I suppose if someone smoking a cigarette or if you were near a forest fire and then opened the hood someone might get a big surprise. You might get a quick flash and that's all. So storing hydrogen after you make it through 12 volt direct current from water isn't a good idea unless you are in the military or experienced in such things like a mechanical engineer. Also, it is important to realize that off the positive electrode will come one element and off the negative electrode will come the other. So Hydrogen off of one and pure oxygen of the other. HYdrogen is volatile and oxygen increases volatility just like when acetelyne is combined with oxygen to cut metal.
The biggest danger you might encounter while converting your vehicle to run on hydrogen and oxygen as well as gasoline is the dirty tricks department of your local multinational oil company, car manufacturer or Government.
If you have done any research like I have and watched documentaries like "A Crude Awakening" (available through netflix) you already know that the only major oilfield in the world that hasn't already peaked is Saudi Arabia and you already know that no big oilfields have been found since the late 1960s. So basically, WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF OIL!
The millions of people who know the earth will run out of oil between 2020 and 2050 are out in their garages now trying to make their vehicles run on hydrogen from water.
Because they CAN imagine a world that runs out of oil and what will happen then to their friends and families when that happens. However, most nations are in the pocket of oil companies and vehicle manufacturers and the very LAST thing they want you to know is that the world is running out of oil because then you would switch fuels and they wouldn't make as much profit. I wish this wasn't true but it is. Do the research yourself if you don't believe me! Don't expect oil companies, car companies or Governments to tell you , however. There is just too much money involved.
Later: March 1st 2013:
I was recently talking about my hydrogen experience with my truck a long time ago now to a friend. He said because he understood the chemical properties of Hydrogen better than I and that hydrogen freed up through electrolysis would tend to grab free Oxygen atoms when this happened and quickly turn back into water vapor. He said this was why I couldn't get it to up my mileage. So, we discussed how you probably would have to fuel inject your vehicle to find some way to not let the Hydrogen touch air until just before it was combusted so it didn't have time to easily recombine into water with nearby Oxygen atoms. As a science experiment I have watched hydrogen come off one electrode (DC) and Oxygen come off the other. But maybe you can't use the Oxygen because otherwise the Hydrogen wants to recombine with it back into water H20. So, maybe the trick would be to run the hydrogen directly into your fuel injection system without giving it time with regular air or straight Oxygen.
The other question would be how much Hydrogen can you make with direct leads coming off your battery without it becoming a drain on the batteries? Maybe this might work the best by being broken down from water to hydrogen by a Prius type of battery and with the hydrogen fed into the prius gas engine for better mileage? Back to the drawing board?
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