Energy From Home

As I explained in the last post, everything has energy. Including water. However unlike gasoline we can’t release that energy just by holding a lighter to it. There is one extra step in there, called electrolysis. Electrolysis is the molecular seperation of hydrogen and oxygen. We all know that water is H2O, two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. The process of electrolysis simply seperates those molecules and in this case turns them into a gas form.

Electrolysis is easy to understand and is also an extremely simple procedure. All it takes to turn water into hydrogen and oxygen is an electric charge. If you were to take a positively charged steel plate and a negatively charged one and stick them both in a bucket of water (without touching them together) you would be performing electrolysis. You will see little bubble forming on the plates, the bubbles on the negative side are pure oxygen, the bubbles on the positive side, pure hydrogen.

Thats the easy part….although there’s not really a hard part. While creating these bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen, you can hold a lighter to the surface of the water where the bubbles are rising. As they reach the flame, they will combust. You are now releasing energy from water.

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