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minus-squareXavienthlinkfedilinkEnglish16•10 days agoHydro-LOx (read: water) is one of the most efficient conventional fuels, and it’s in use in NASA’s Space Launch System powering the Artemis program. Even if you assume somehow all the fresh water has disappeared, there’s still solar-powered electrolysis to create hydrolox from sea water.
minus-squareDirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]linkfedilinkEnglish11•edit-210 days ago Even if you assume somehow all the fresh water has disappeared https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170412-is-the-world-running-out-of-fresh-water there’s still solar-powered electrolysis to create hydrolox from sea water. Hasen’t that been abandoned for being too expensive/resource consuming?
minus-squareXavienthlinkfedilinkEnglish18•10 days agoIt’s not too expensive, it’s just more expensive than getting hydrogen from fossil fuels, so the only reason you’d electrolyze hydrogen from water right now is if you’re trying to be green.
Hydro-LOx (read: water) is one of the most efficient conventional fuels, and it’s in use in NASA’s Space Launch System powering the Artemis program.
Even if you assume somehow all the fresh water has disappeared, there’s still solar-powered electrolysis to create hydrolox from sea water.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170412-is-the-world-running-out-of-fresh-water
Hasen’t that been abandoned for being too expensive/resource consuming?
It’s not too expensive, it’s just more expensive than getting hydrogen from fossil fuels, so the only reason you’d electrolyze hydrogen from water right now is if you’re trying to be green.
I see