GLOBAL FUTURE ANALYSIS


PERSPECTIVES | WATER


Regarding water as energy source: maybe we want to rob only some temperature based energy of it (output: colder water than the input), or we want to gain an energy positive electrolysis process of water, that demands less (power) energy input that it gives in (hydrogen) energy output. More likely the answer is a combination of both: powering the electrolysis by rob warmth from a separate cooling water stream. The challenge is to make an electrolytic process that 1 has less power loose and 2) takes (warmth) energy from the cooling water. If we could do so, that we are in line with both the first and second law of thermodynamics. If the process could be made useful energy surplus it would be the final solution for the Energy Crisis (still we have to transite our install base (energy using assets/investments) from fossil molecule input to electrons and/or hydrogen input. Local based cheap and abundant power generation could be possible again if we could make this process energy surplus. This maybe can be done by the use of a combination of different technologies: electro magnetism -enforced by earth polarity-, high voltage waves, catalysts in the water and on the electrodes. This way we could 'harvest' the energy from the closed circuit 'cooling' water (which than come more cold out than it has gone in, with will get some warmth again in a lake, river or sea based closed water pipe circuit. The electrolysis based solution could lead to small local plants that electrolyze water assisted by a complex of catalysts (in the water and on the electrodes), high voltage waves and resonance. The energy would be 'harvested' out of the secondary closed circuit 'cooling water' stream, which will be heated by closed circuit interfacing with a nature water sources, like a river, if catalysts and/or resonance and/or high/low frequencies could facilitate a low energy input electrolyze, that absorbs energy from a closed water 'cooling' system could be utilized. So electrolysis assisted by a complex of catalysts, high voltage waves and resonance as complex for 'harvesting' for electrolysis out of the 'cooling' water (and this way being in line with the first law of thermodynamics). How we make hydrogen out of water with an almost 0% current lost by use of the right set of water based and electrode based catalysts where we feed only the water and harvest temperature of an separate water stream that we feed though glass pipes though the process chamber, etc.


Author: Gijs Graafland


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