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Whether the net yield of hydrogen (and nearly-sanitized H2O and Aluminum oxide slurry) is worth the squeeze. And, Is hydrogen plasma through and within the wat
by westurner 1y ago
Whether the net yield of hydrogen (and nearly-sanitized H2O and Aluminum oxide slurry) is worth the squeeze.
And, Is hydrogen plasma through and within the water worth it from a just hydrogen yield perspective?
When I asked an AI about research in this - after an LLM suggested hydrogen plasma for deoxidizing titanium (instead of yttrium) the other day - there were a few results; which alone doesn't indicate viability.
What do you do with the aluminum slurry from hydrogen plasma etching and IDK ultrasound?
Ctrl-F aluminum:
"Aluminum formate Al(HCOO)3: Earth-abundant, scalable, & material for CO2 capture" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33501189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33501189 ..
https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#story-33501182 https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#story-33501182
"Superconducting nanostrip single photon detectors made of aluminum thin-films" https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#story-42647229 https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#story-42647229
"Green steel from red mud through climate-neutral hydrogen plasma reduction"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06901-z https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06901-z ..
> Red mud [from aluminum production] consists of up to 60% iron oxide. Melting the mud in an electric arc furnace using a plasma containing 10% hydrogen reduces it to liquid iron and liquid oxides, allowing the iron to be easily extracted. The plasma reduction technique takes 10 minutes and produces iron so pure, say the researchers, it can be processed directly into steel. And the no-longer-corrosive metal oxides solidify on cooling, so they can be transformed into glass-like material that could be used as a filling material in the construction industry.
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"New stainless steel pulls green hydrogen directly out of seawater"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43991630 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43991630