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Subject: How efficient is the electrolysis of water?

Date: Tue Oct 13 10:00:27 1998
Posted by Ken Holder
Grade level: undergrad
School: None
City: Evansville State/Province: IN
Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
ID: 908290827.Ph
Message:

When you change energy from one form into another there is always a loss dictated by the Law of Entropy. When you use electricity to generate hydrogen and oxygen from water by means of electrolysis how much energy is lost to heat (etc.) in this proccess? What is the efficiency of hydrolysis?


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