August 26th, 2020
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/r/Showerthoughts
The fact that humans know the chemical formula to make water, yet choose not to, says a lot about society.
August 26th, 2020
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YariAttano
Not really, it’s not economically feasible to make water since it wastes so much energy, just easier to go get water.
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[deleted]
It'd probably be more cost effective to remove salt from sea water than just making water from scratch. Probably would yield the same amount anyway.
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TheYellowDart32
What does it say?
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BloodTeethGutz
We have enough fresh water on earth to sustain us. The issue is poor resource management. Everyone uses water like it’s endless. We need to focus on taking care of our planet, so it can take care of us.
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TheMika7
Why would we? Its so much cheaper to purify natural water.
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croninsiglos
We make water all the time and break it apart through hydrolysis... what of it? It’s energy intensive $$. Fuel cell makes water.
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TheBlargshaggen
Came here to comment along these lines, its way to expensive to just create water, much cheaper to just recycle water.
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[deleted]
... Can we? I mean, assuming, we have a 10 gallon drum of pure oxygen and 2 10 gallon drums of pure Hydrogen, can we really make 10 gallons of water out of that? Wouldn't it take like... a lot of something to do? Seriously, I am asking, what would it take to create water out of the base chemicals?
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[deleted]
That's right.
But just think about how much energy is required to compress and react that much gas. Energy that could be much better spent desalinating or distributing fresh water.
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[deleted]
A lot of energy and considering we'd be compressing gas we'd probably only get about 1 gallon of water if that. (Guessing, I am sure there is math I don't want to do)
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