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Anonymous Poster #1	HOH 07/10/2011 3:14 AM
	what is the optimal value-ratio for: current/voltage/pulse for most efective electrolysis of water?
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Tornado Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Richland, WA, USA Posts: 21017 Good Answers: 795	#1 Re: hoh 07/10/2011 3:51 AM
	I doubt that there is any particular optimum voltage and current, other than more is better (so long as the wiring and electrodes can handle it.). Pulse is probably irrelevent. HOH is an unwise choice of terminology used by dreamers. The reaction would be better described as 2H₂O + electricity → 2H₂ + O₂. __________________ In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
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Anonymous Poster #1	#2 In reply to #1 Re: 2H2O + electricity ? 2H2 + O2 07/10/2011 4:10 AM
	do you think it is possible to solve the world`s economy?
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Tornado Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Richland, WA, USA Posts: 21017 Good Answers: 795	#3 In reply to #2 Re: 2H2O + electricity ? 2H2 + O2 07/10/2011 4:15 AM
	That's quite a leap of faith! Too many equations for me.... __________________ In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
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Mikerho Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Moses Lake, WA, USA, Thulcandra - The Silent Planet (C.S. Lewis) Posts: 4216 Good Answers: 194	#4 In reply to #1 Re: hoh 07/10/2011 7:23 AM
	EC, irrelevent corrected = irrelevant just sayin' Even so, GA. __________________ "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." - Ayn Rand
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Tornado Guru Join Date: May 2009 Location: Richland, WA, USA Posts: 21017 Good Answers: 795	#5 In reply to #4 Re: hoh 07/10/2011 10:11 AM
	Thanks--it happens to me, too, but I try to catch most. __________________ In vino veritas; in cervisia carmen; in aqua E. coli.
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jack of all trades Guru Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 8777 Good Answers: 376	#6 Re: HOH 07/10/2011 3:29 PM
	Water electrolysis (and other pseudoscience subjects) has been exhaustively discussed on CR4 before. Try the search function on the right-hand side of the screen. Short answer is water electrolysis is hopelessly inefficient, you will always use much more energy than you will get out no matter what materials or waveforms you use. And that has been scientifically proven time and time again. __________________ jack of all trades
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PWSlack Guru Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: In the bothy, 7 chains down the line from Dodman's Lane level crossing, in the nation formerly known as Great Britain. Kettle's on. Posts: 32175 Good Answers: 839	#7 Re: HOH 07/11/2011 4:16 AM
	Try the Wikipedia article on the topic. __________________ "Did you get my e-mail?" - "The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - George Bernard Shaw, 1856
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