If you were to make a wireless shower head, would it have hydrogen molecules and suck in the oxygen from the air to create water? Would you have to recharge it with hydrogen?

  • callyral
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    32 years ago

    You could just get moisture from the air but that’ll probably take quite a long time

  • themeatbridge
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    112 years ago

    The act of oxygenating hydrogen is massively volatile and releases a bunch of energy. You could power a large truck with the energy that would be produced when you make barely a trickle of water.

  • @[email protected]
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    12 years ago

    Would sucking the oxygen from the air to make water not pretty much instantly suffocate you? Is there enough oxygen to make any significant amount of water?

  • @[email protected]
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    252 years ago

    My wireless shower head does’t use hydrogen, it just uses a hose to supply the water. No wires though.

  • @[email protected]
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    162 years ago

    I have engineered a solution for exactly this, believe it or not.

    The shower system consists of carbon doped ferrous material coated with a zinc passivation agent. There is a flow control subsystem made of a Cu-Zn alloy which also causes aerosolization of the hydrogen-oxygen payload. The hydrogen-oxygen mixture is pre-processed in a large volume nitrogen container, and precipitated down to the shower system using a combination of thermal effects and manipulation of ambient pressure.

    Works really well, only limitation is the amount of precipitate available.

    In other words, it’s a metal rain bucket with a faucet.

  • @[email protected]
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    222 years ago

    to achieve significantly better density in the fuel tank, it is better to pre-react your hydrogen with oxygen. That way you can store your fuel as a liquid at room temperature, instead of a gas.

    or in other words, just attach a water balloon to it

  • deejay4am
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    222 years ago

    It might not be a good idea to create a device that sucks all the oxygen out of an enclosed space meant for a human during operation 💀

  • wasney
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    82 years ago

    I imagine a wireless shower head could just be a squirt gun type deal with a shower head on the end.

    Or, to stay close to your example, why not two canisters, Hydrogen and Oxygen. Then you’re not sucking all the oxygen in the room.