> > That sounds like a recipe for excitement - DC current into seawater > should generate hydrogen on one and and oxygen on the other electrode. > At 3000 amps, rather a lot of it. > > > > I imagine they keep the current density low enough that the gas is > absorbed into the water as it's evolved. But yes.. a fascinating > concept. **********************
Actually if you electrolyse salt water with DC you get Hydrogen & Chlorine at the electrodes and sodium hydroxide dissolved in the water. That's how salt water pool chlorinators work and why the pool get progressively alkaline and needs to have hydrochloric acid added regularly to make up for what's released by electrolytic action. Hopefully if it gets released in the ocean the Cl2 gets reabsorbed quickly and the caustic soda gets diluted or buffered. The H2 would end up in the atmosphere as it's not very water soluble. I love this thread on the old style large synchronous motors. My first engineering job was in a paper mill where they had quite a few of them on various machines including the Ward Leonard sets that controlled the paper machines. We were continually tweaking the excitation to try and get the overall power factor down... Morris _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.