Yeah but... not the rate of electrolysis of the ions of the water? |
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Oh... I'm still not really sure 'what the oil industry wants' has much to do with this. This thread is essentially about a private inventor... there's no reason he couldn't make a business out of this (if it actually worked, which it doesn't). |
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How did you measure the speed of the reaction? Current? |
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Xei, pure water is a very good insulator. It conducts electricity about as well as space conducts sound (that is to say not non-existent, but of no practical significance). I'd feel pretty safe jumping into a pool of distilled water holding on to a plugged-in toaster. |
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yeah. it has A LOT to do with it, Xei (aside from the details you were getting at). as i said, innovation is often a danger to industry. there could be a number of perceived threats, especially when it gets anywhere near the scale the OP was thinking of - she seemed to be wondering about the potential and what's holding us back from that. |
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Last edited by cygnus; 08-22-2010 at 05:26 AM.
Our rig consisted of tubes over either end of the electrodes. As the water was electrolyzed, the gas would displace the water. Using a stopwatch, we timed several concentrations of ions and marked how much gas was produced. Not extremely precise, but we did observe a very noticeable difference. We used HCl as our ion source. |
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i find it interesting how everyone wants to points out how, even with the technology possible, it would still cause more harm than good. that is a very backward way, logically and historically of seeing something of major change. the people really thinking jump on ideas end up changing the world forever. god bless boss. |
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Well this is my point; how do you know you were electrolysing hydrogen ions from water molecules, and not from the HCl? What I'm saying is that I'm not convinced adding ions increases the rate of breakdown of H2O. I wouldn't be surprised if it does but this doesn't seem like the experiment to show it. |
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When he burns the water, he is basically breaking up the hydrogen and oxygen, which are both gases. As the hydrogen burns it rejoins with the oxygen to form pure water, and the salt is left behind, I assume still in a solid state. If the energy put in is the same as the energy you get out, which it should be(minus efficiency problems with creating the radio waves) the you basically have free water filtration. Even with some efficiency problems, it may still be better than current methods to remove salt from water. |
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Yea but they are using radio waves, not electrodes. So they solve any sort of problem with salt build up on them. Lets say you are losing 50 percent of the power that is crated, you are still recouping 50 percent of the power needed. The important question is, how much power is that? You can't really argue which method of filtration is better, if you don't know how much energy it takes. |
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Table salt already splits up into Na+ and Cl- ions when it is dissolved in water, it can't be electrolyzed further. The salt acts as an electrolyte that propagates the electric field of the electrodes. |
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Last edited by Spartiate; 08-22-2010 at 07:56 PM.
I'm sorry but I don't think you know what you're talking about. |
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Last edited by Xei; 08-22-2010 at 08:59 PM.
You are not using radio waves to heat water, you are using it to separate the salt from the water, and as a by product it creates heat. The heat is then recycled to reduce the energy cost of running it. |
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Yes I know, I was responding to this: |
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Last edited by Spartiate; 08-22-2010 at 09:57 PM.
No, he's explaining to you what electrolysis is, because you don't seem to have understood it quite. |
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Last edited by khh; 08-22-2010 at 10:13 PM.
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No all I've ever said is that water may conduct better when you add salt because you've just put a load of ions in to electrolyse, not because you're making the water itself easier to electrolyse. :l |
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Last edited by Xei; 08-22-2010 at 10:22 PM.
Lol I don't think we've been on the same page from the start. All I've been saying is that pure water can't be electrolyzed because no electrical field can propagate in it. The water will always be electrolyzed to the same degree for a given amount of current it is exposed to (regardless of what is floating in it). The electrolyte exposes the water to a larger amount of the current that is put in, that is why I said it improves the process of electrolysis (I may have used a series of terms that weren't 100% accurate). |
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