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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I didn't think you could use sea water to produce hydrogen.
The salt breaks down into sulphuric acid and chlorine...but if you know different then I am ready to be educated.
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Looks like I should have included the phrase 'traditional electrolysis of water' in my previous post. Obviously been retired for too long and not keeping up to date. However the currently available hydrogen fuel is being manufactured in 'traditional' ways and that is silly, better to burn the natural gas directly and avoid wasting the energy needed to turn it into hydrogen.
Tucked away at the bottom of the page of one the previous references is the following link to a very interesting development. Admittedly only the first step to half of a problem but a very good first step. Needs to overcome the already noted problems and an equivalent development for the other half of the reaction but if it can be made to work and scale up could be very very good.
https://m.phys.org/news/2016-02-scie...-reaction.html