A silly question about water. Is there any reason why we can’t make water?
Published 1 year, 2 months ago in Making News.Hi everyone,
Can someone please explain to me why we can’t make water. I think that it’s H2O? Can’t scientists in factories combine these elements and make endless amounts of water? I know it’s a stupid question, but I need an answer.
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I’m not too sure, but I think it is a dangerous, volatile reaction, possibly one that takes more energy than desalination of seawater. I think other options are much more viable.
I’m sure there is a science buff amongst us somewhere, who will have the answer. I’ve only seen harry butler put the plastic bag over the bush, and with photosynthesis….dah dah……….water………but, long slow process, you wouldn’t want to share.
Funny I was asking the same question the other day….but we already have global warming so why not use what is already available with sea water….Perhaps Australia will sink along with all those other islands if we keep defrosting the Poles!
It is possible to make water, water is a by product of the combustion of Hydrogen and Oxygen, which is why the exhaust of hydrogen fuelled cars is water. The problem is getting the hydrogen separated from the atmosphere into high pressure gas tanks in the first place, a very expensive exercise requiring the cooling of air to low enough temperatures to allow the hydrogen to liquify and be separated off. The temperature required is below -252.87 degrees Celsius, the temperature at which hydrogen liquid boils to become a gas.
It is the same process used to get your Oxy and Acetylene gases for welding in industry, those who live near Greens Road Dandenong would know the large LNG tank, which is used by the gas plant next door to produce industrial gases. Can be done, but not a viable alternatve.
What is a viable alternative? You very clever man, grumpyoldman….the liquid of life is priceless and we’re sitting on our hands waiting for a disaster…..Water levels have dropped significantly in two years. No point in being the richest nation in the cemetery.
Mary, seeing that that is the only way we currently have of actually making water, maybe the main viable alternative is to try and harness the rivers from Queensland that empty in to Lake Eyre by piping them into the Darling so the water comes down to the Murray. Then a pipeline down to Melbourne from Mildura.
There is of course the alternative of harnessing one of the large icebergs calving off Antarctica and towing it to the south coast, anchor it off Gipsland and pump it to Melbourne storages as it melts.
Other than that, we can wait for the next Ice age, which will be triggered soon by the Arctic Ice melting and stopping the Gulf Stream flowing, (It is already starting to slow) which in turn will result in half of the Northern Hemisphere being covered in ice, thus stopping all the so called Greenhouse Gas emissions from the USA, UK, Europe and Asia. With all that water taken up as ice, we can then build a pipeline across a now dry Bass Straight to Tassie and tap in to the Tassie Reservoirs.
There is plenty of water, we just waste it, put a tank in every house, even without rain you get condensation, we just let it go down the drain.