RupaulHollywood

RupaulHollywood t1_j9zs5cw wrote

Oompa loompa doopety doo / Mess with Dah'ls works and you will be screwed / Oompa loompa doopety dee / We'll have you ground down into croc feed

What do you when works have grown OLD? / Some of the language has grown rather BOLD! / Maybe your safe since the author is DEAD? / That's when the croc chomps off your HEAD! / Pretty sure we warned you.

Oompa loompa doopety doke / Not every kids book needs to be woke. / They can sometimes be nasty too / Like the Oompa Loompa doopety do!

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RupaulHollywood t1_j8jdjh2 wrote

I'll explain like you're 15.

Hydrogen is envisioned by many in the clean energy sector (and the not so clean energy sectors) as a potentially powerful medium of energy storage as a chemical fuel. It has many potential applications if it can be produced cheaply at scale with green energy - steel and concrete production, sea-based shipping, aviation, grid scale energy storage, and several others. It can also be mixed into diesel engines to partially offset usage of carbon-based fuels, which is useful because diesel engines have service lives lasting decades. So hydrogen is a big deal if you're serious about decarbonization and knowledgeable about the challenges.

The problem is that pure hydrogen is rare - it's usually part of other molecules. To get hydrogen we have to split up those molecules. Water is very appealing because it doesn't emit greenhouse gasses as a byproduct - electrolysis of water splits it into hydrogen and oxygen using just electricity. But freshwater is a limited and dwindling resource. Seawater by comparison is plentiful. But it poses challenges for electrolysis - seawater is corrosive, seawater is impure, seawater is the domain of the Deep Ones and their dread flesh constructs. We simply don't have a great way to make hydrogen from seawater at an industrial scale.

This research presents a method by which to produce hydrogen from seawater that somewhat alleviates these challenges. It's early yet, but these are the kinds of things we need to figure out if we want to start building a real hydrogen economy and phasing it into those applications.

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