Water production being the life resource it is, should be, attended to by being created from the atoms in the air.
Research in this area , may result in projects similar to nuclear reactors for energy production.
If so, then has the time arrived for that to be looked into?
2007-03-28 20:49:26 · 10 answers · asked by jsghatahora 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
It already is being looked into, but the problem they're facing with it is that the process requires more energy to be put in for it to work than the amount of energy it produces.
Cold fusion as it's known (fusion with less input energy than output) is the holy grail of power generation.
2007-03-28 20:54:24 · answer #1 · answered by k² 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds like you are saying that we should produce water because it is a life resource. I know that some people don't get enough drinking water but as a whole the earths not really short on water.
Using hydrogen and oxygen to make water in order to use the energy of its formation wouldbe usefull.
However the issue is not how t make the water but how to split water in the first place to make the hydrogen and oxygen.
2007-03-29 04:12:48 · answer #2 · answered by CJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The amount of hydrogen in the air is very small compared to oxygen.
The extraction of hydrogen would be very costly as would the fusion process with oxygen.
The cheaper method would be the building of more desalination plants.
The actual amount of the water presently in and on the earh is constant, however, the way it is used and so much wasted is the big problem. Distribution to areas of low rainfall is also a problem.
2007-03-28 21:12:13 · answer #3 · answered by Norrie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are almost no free hydrogen atoms in the air. air is 78% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, 1% argon, 0.03% carbon dioxide, traces of other gases.
hydrogen is normally produced by splitting it from water, as this is the easiest way to make hydrogen gas.
attempting to combust the 0.00005% hydrogen present in air would be extermely difficult, there just isnt enough of it.
Hydrogen cannot be created by fusion, fusion adds protons, neutrons and electrons to elements to create more complicated elements.
Hydrogen is the simplest element (with an atomic weight of one), thus cannot be made by adding to existing atoms (fusion)
2007-03-28 21:16:14 · answer #4 · answered by only1doug 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well - you give me some hydrogen and I will make water for you. All you need to do is light it and stand back! This is a great idea, except for two things - firstly, we are not short of water here on earth, and secondly, there is hardly any hydrogen in the atmosphere.
2007-03-29 02:11:44 · answer #5 · answered by Martin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The concentration of hydrogen in our atmosphere is only 0.55 ppmv. Burning all of it with oxygen would only produce a 0.55/10000, or 0.0055% increase in our atmospheric water vapor.
If you are thinking of hydrogen fusion, the end product is helium, not water, and hydrogen is more easily produced from electrolysis of water (no CO2 generation) or "washing" hydrocarbons, which brings us right back to hydrocarbon fuel dependence.
2007-03-28 21:20:42 · answer #6 · answered by Helmut 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isn't it just as important splitting hydrogen and oxygen to produce fuel from water? And would it not be easier to just take water from the ocean?
2007-03-28 21:03:20 · answer #7 · answered by LillyB 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would use so much energy and be so expensive that it would be better to distill sea water and pipe it across the planet, or react massive quantities of hydrogen peroxide.
2007-03-28 20:54:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you just purify ocean/dirty water? That's what we do on the submarines.
2007-03-31 17:58:06 · answer #9 · answered by big o 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What, by all the Gods, are you talking about?
2007-03-29 00:00:52 · answer #10 · answered by lykovetos 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋