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9. How would it consume oxygen?

Reply to IbogaProject (Reply #8)

Wed Jan 29, 2025, 06:01 PM

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Do you mean when it's burned?

Keep 2 things in mind, first, burning H2 would be replacing burning fossil fuels which also consume oxygen so no new loss there, and second, when H2 is produced through electrolysis, the process also releases the pure Oxygen in the water that is split.

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