Message from @franti
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Even Black Science Man didn't know about the practical details of water electrolysis. He thought the Space Shuttle could be fueled by just breaking down water. Somebody corrected him, it's way too inefficient to do it that way, they just collect hydrogen from oil wells, and oxygen from the atmosphere.
Exactly. Splitting up water via electrolysis is not a viable way of producing fuel.
The oxygen in particular, is nasty to whatever conductor you're using.
It's done on nuclear submarines because they have power to spare, but even there, they're changing out electrolysis plants for reverse osmosis plants.
which is why i dont get why these people are trying it now
All science textbooks talk about how you can do it at home, everyone who tries it, finds no oxygen at all, only hydrogen. Because the oxygen corrodes the terminal.
maybe they are just that far behind, and cant use the internet
The oxygen does get produced, it just reacts with whatever metal is being used for the conductor.
Not easy to find metal that won't get corroded.
You'd need a platinum or gold electrode to actually see the bubbles go.
So, to summarize
No, they're not making a water powered car, they're making a hydrogen powered car
Water is a very low energy state molecule, that's why burning hydrogen with oxygen releases energy and creates water.
Yeah, but in marketing language it sounds much better to say water powered, because there's just so much water on the earth! <:pepe_smug:378719408341909506>
At least we can drink water, much better to use as energy source some dark sludge that's otherwise useless, that's just laying there underground.
>otherwise useless
No, it's kinda really fundamentally needed in the production of this thing called plastics. Without oil, no plastics.
Sustainables with a nuclear baseload is the future.
what is that?
Research is done into creating plastics independent of crude oil
We can make plastic out of corn already.
Wind/water/solar power providing the majority of the energy needs we have, with be-it either fission or fusion nuclear power being available as 'on-demand' in case, say, the sky is overcast, or there's no wind.
such production is not supported by an already established industry, though
we should probably do something though, I don't like plastic just hanging around everywhere
Go tell India and China that.
And just, the overwhelming majority of non-western countries.
did you see that river in Guatemala?
it was just trash
it might have been from a flood though, idk
SHITHOLE
I think there is some kind of worm that can process plastic
I'm sure there's also research being done into genetically engineering microbes and similar organisms to break down plastic
It get loose and eat your car
but that's going to take a while, even without considering how and where to deploy such organisms, or how they might otherwise impact on the environment
And eat your car
"hey boss, yeah i'm gonna be late for work..., yeah the worms ate my car again"
SPACE FORCE
he knew