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I’ve seen lots of opinion here but no one has whipped out a spreadsheet and run some numbers.
by quickthrower2 5y ago
I’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-...