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Not sure I can believe they wrote that long of an article without explaining how the electricity to do the electrolysis was produced.
by Scoundreller 4y ago
Not sure I can believe they wrote that long of an article without explaining how the electricity to do the electrolysis was produced.
- gs17 4y agoProbably natural gas: https://www.arm.gov/capabilities/observatories/nsa/locations/c1 https://www.arm.gov/capabilities/observatories/nsa/locations...
- PaulHoule 4y agoI know people have filled balloons with hydrogen that they made by mixing an acid with a metal.
- guenthert 4y ago'cause that would be irrelevant if the objective is to minimize the use of limited helium resources on earth. Or so I thought, yet they seem to be concerned about the transportation cost and greenhouse gas emission of transporting helium containers to the station. Baffled.
- TechnicalVault 4y agoUnless they have a power purchase agreement then that would depend entirely on whatever the local grid mix is at the time. Bear in mind researchers aren't usually the ones running the physical facilities in big labs. There will be a whole ops department leading that, folks build a career on that.