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I just love the thought of some silly human not putting the gas cap on correctly and whoops, we've allowed all of the hydrogen in all of the Earth's oceans to e
by jandrese 5y ago
I just love the thought of some silly human not putting the gas cap on correctly and whoops, we've allowed all of the hydrogen in all of the Earth's oceans to escape and now the atmosphere is way over-oxygenated and everything is always on fire.
It's like worrying that astronomers won't be able to enjoy the night sky after we've built a Dyson Sphere.
- quickthrower2 5y agoI’ve seen lots of opinion here but no one has whipped out a spreadsheet and run some numbers.
- jandrese 5y agoEnergy required to Elecrolyze the world's oceans. Theoretical max efficiency: 13.173 MJ/kg of water.[1] Water in the oceans: 1.35E21 kg [2] Total energy needed to electrolyze the oceans: 1.77E22 MJ Total energy recieved by the Earth from the sun per second: 4.3E14 MJ Time required to elecroyize the oceans using the entire available output of the Sun on Earth at 100% total efficiency: 478.67 days It is a very silly idea to think that we could accidentally wield many orders of magnitude more energy than humanity has ever harnessed in collective history without noticing. [1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/24624/water-electrolysis-calculations https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/24624/water-elec... [2] https://mathblag.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/how-much-water-is-in-the-oceans/ https://mathblag.wordpress.com/2013/08/03/how-much-water-is-...