Can gaseous hydrogen and gaseous oxygen be compressed without reaction?

I'm looking into building a clean Bunsen-style burner (or rocket engine - I haven't decided yet). I will be using electrolysis to extract hydrogen and oxygen from water, but the apparatus I am thinking about building will render gaseous hydrogen and gaseous oxygen, but in a mixture. Preferably I would store them compressed, and not have spontaneous combustion.


My question is this:
  
  
Will gaseous hydrogen and gaseous oxygen react with each other if compressed in the same chamber?  
If so, how much pressure is required before it blows up?




The study [Explosion Characteristics of Hydrogen-Air and Hydrogen-Oxygen Mixtures at Elevated Pressures](http://conference.ing.unipi.it/ichs2005/Papers/120001.pdf) includes data for pressures up to 200 bar. 


Data were collected for Hydrogen-Oxygen mixtures at both 20 and 80 degrees C at pressures ranging from 1 to 200 bar. A high voltage spark was still needed to cause explosion. 


Storing a compressed mixture of hydrogen and oxygen still seems extremely unsafe to me. I definitely wouldn't do it. 


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I built something similar to use as oxy /hydrogen welding and cutting. Basically I generated the gasses over water by electrolysis using graphite electrodes and a solar panel. The oxygen and hydrogen were collected separately in tanks made from plastic buckets, in, and separated by, a water bath. The gasses were led out via taps in the bottom of each bucket and only came in contact with each other within a welding handpiece. Pressure was regulated by putting bricks on top of the open bottomed containment tanks and varying the water level above them.
I only ever used pressures up to about 20 psi without any problem.


I wouldn't think that this would be acceptable on a worksite though!!!! 


Have fun! 


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