Trego Posted July 13, 2020 Share Posted July 13, 2020 The cheapest way to produce hydrogen in the real world is steam-methane reforming. This consists of combining steam with natural gas/methane at around 900 Celsius, with a nickel catalyst, to produce hydrogen and CO. You can then combine the CO with steam with a rust catalyst to obtain further H2 and CO2. We could have a fun late-game machine for ONI based on this process, inputs of steam and methane, outputs H2 and CO2, call it something like 'methane cracker'. You would have to carefully balance this machine vis-a-vis the current natural gas generator/electrolyzer/hydrogen generator/steam turbine machines to neither obsolete them nor be itself useless, but I think it would be a fun addition nevertheless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImpalerWrG Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 A good and realistic device, but it would need new non-power generating uses for Hydrogen, such as manufacturing or smelting to really give it a point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve8 Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 59 minutes ago, ImpalerWrG said: but it would need new non-power generating uses for Hydrogen Currently it's a bit of a struggle to produce enough hydrogen for rockets. People build a lot of electrolyzers and just vent the excess oxygen into space Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexkuzmov Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 Yes! More real physics in ONI! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trego Posted August 1, 2020 Author Share Posted August 1, 2020 6 hours ago, ImpalerWrG said: A good and realistic device, but it would need new non-power generating uses for Hydrogen, such as manufacturing or smelting to really give it a point. As Steve8 pointed out, in the current game this would mainly be for rockets. Since the DLC is coming out pretty soon with a big change to rocketry, and possibly other uses for hydrogen, that situation might change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoakenashi Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 On 8/1/2020 at 2:53 PM, Trego said: Since the DLC is coming out pretty soon with a big change to rocketry, and possibly other uses for hydrogen, that situation might change. The DLC also contains Radium (a radioactive material). Hydrogen can be produced within nuclear reactors (one method being steam-methane reforming) perhaps they will include Hydrogen as one of the biproducts of radium usage http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/chen2/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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