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The process, as described, used 1.5v. That can be produced by a common solar panel. Thus we can scale it. And spread it across a small amount of time. Did you
by stephengillie 11y ago
The process, as described, used 1.5v. That can be produced by a common solar panel. Thus we can scale it. And spread it across a small amount of time.
Did you and everyone think I was proposing to use gigawatts and electrolyse 1% of ocean water in a few seconds? O_o
- ars 11y agoYou can produce 100,000v by a common solar panel as well if you want. Voltage is completely irrelevant, what counts is energy. > Thus we can scale it. I don't follow. What does voltage have to do with anything? > Did you and everyone think I was proposing to use gigawatts and electrolyse 1% of ocean water in a few seconds? O_o Um, yes. Do you have the slightest idea how much energy it would take to electrolyze 1% of the ocean? I did some math for you: you need 1.752×10^26 joules. If you had a gigawatt available to you it would take 5,552,000,000 years.
- stephengillie 11y agoI thought voltage, at a certain amperage, was a way of describing energy. Sorry for my confusion.
- ars 11y agoYou're not wrong, voltage times amperage does describe the energy, but voltage alone means very little. In this case energy is what counts not voltage.