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Volatile Matters
Fuel cells and the Apollo 13 explosion. Plus: More WND fallout, and much else.
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Bedford, TX
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Reid Collins replies:
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Johnson’s letter misquotes the piece. I did not call what exploded
in Apollo 13 a “fuel cell tank” as he puts it (and in quotes). I
called it a cell tank, which it was, an oxygen tank that supplies
the fuel cell with the oxygen side of the hydrogen mix that creates
electricity.
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Johnson goes on to say “to make such an erroneous statement as Mr. Collins has done is to suggest that fuel cells are themselves subject to explosions and are therefor dangerous.” In the next sentence he goes on to say that the tanks that supply the fuel cells are indeed subject to explosion. So the cells themselves are not explosive, only the tanks that feed and make them operate.
The Johnson complaint is based on a misread of what was actually written and in fact becomes a launching pad for his exposition of knowledge of energy conversion.
As a writer, I object to being misquoted. As a taxpayer, I especially object to being misquoted by someone whose admitted incompetence has cost us $1,125,000.00!
p> UNDER THE BORDER WALK br> Re: Bill Tucker’s and Bruce Demo’s letters in Reader Mail’s Why Even Border? : /p>
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