University of Alberta chemist turns ocean water into an abundant hydrogen source

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4. Um, high school kids can make hydrogen from seawater. I made hydrogen from salt water when I was twelve years old.

I did it with a transformer/rectifier for a train set.

Making hydrogen from water, like making hydrogen from any form of water destroys exergy, because it requires a source of energy, which it wastes in the process.

While my childhood "experiment" resulted in the oxidation of the copper wires I used as electrodes, ultimately shutting down the system. Developing an electrode with calcium titanate and copper does not reverse the laws of thermodynamics, although it may make the energy wasting electrode last longer.

If one looks at google patents, and types in the words "hydrogen electrode," one gets over 100,000 hits.

Big fucking deal.

Hydrogen is a dirty fuel, overwhelmingly made, everyone of the fucking planet from fossil fuels. All claims about using this intractable substance with absurdly dangerous physical properties as a consumer product as a scam for is marketing dangerous fossil fuels.

A Giant Climate Lie: When they're selling hydrogen, what they're really selling is fossil fuels.

It is, therefore, an odious enterprise.

Have a nice day tomorrow.