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Old Sep 01, 2008, 07:50 AM
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Do you know how they keep the hydrogen cold? What if a car is sitting for a long time without being driven? Liquid hydrogen will boil at -252 degrees Celcius. Wikipedia says "Typically it will evaporate at a rate of 1% per day." That is with insulated containers.
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