Can’t you just break down water, use the hydrogen to power the electric motor, and I don’t think O2 as a byproduct is bad, now this is of course an ideal condition, but why hasn’t this been looked into more?

  • kersploosh@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    Mass is conserved. If you split water into hydrogen and oxygen, then combine them back into water, you will have the same amount of water as when you started.

    That’s assuming you don’t have leaky equipment in your lab, of course.

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      9 months ago

      OK, thanks for the answer, it been bugging me for a bit and I couldn’t definitively answer it. I’ve heard the argument that something hydrolysis would result in fresh water being decreased, good to know my first feeling (that that argument was bs) is true.