Not a chemist, but wouldn’t you also produce ozone. - Mark
Sent from my Fuel Cell powered iPhone > On Mar 16, 2020, at 5:01 PM, Robert Bruninga via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > > HYDROGEN Fuel Question? (actually oxygen?) > > As the virus spreads, and hospitals may become overloaded, I wonder how > hard it would be to build a home oxygen generator. Just two electrodes in > water and lots of DC from the EV or solar panels or the grid. Then > venting the hydrogen, and breathing the oxygen if needed. > > Ignoring all the potential dangers (explosion of the hydrogen and > poisonous gasses from the Oxygen electrode if the wrong metal is used. > > By my rough calculations it takes about 5 kW to generate 570 liters/hour > of oxygen which is a bit over 8 liters per minute of normal breathing. > > That seems very high current consupmption. I must have made an error? > I used these google facts: > 8 liters per minute for normal breathing > 1.4 grams of oxygen per liter > 50 kWh to generate 8 kg of oxygen. > > How do those little battery powered O2 generators work? > Bob > _______________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub > ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html > INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) > _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
