Water Production with Hydrogen Generator

[tutandcom50]

In the real world, the combustion of hydrogen produces water. Introducing this into the game as a feature would mean that the hydrogen generator not only burns clean (not producing the harmful air contaminants like the coal generator), and also makes producing water a possibility. This would not happen without it's challenges though: the water would be high in temperature (due to the nature of combustion), increasing the temperature of the environment until it is thoroughly cooled. 

As the hydrogen generator already has an input and an output (gas intake and electricity output), adding a third output may be challenging. A solution to this may be just dripping water from the exhaust pipe in a similar fashion to the liquid vent, requiring the hydrogen generator to be suspended over the water supply.

[AlexRou]

It could also just output steam the same way the coal generator output CO2 so it uses the same system.

[Ghosticus]

27 minutes ago, AlexRou said:

It could also just output steam the same way the coal generator output CO2 so it uses the same system.

+1 for steam emissions, so long as the hydrogen gens are fleshed out and look like they work better.

[Kasuha]

1 hour ago, tutandcom50 said:

In the real world, the combustion of hydrogen produces water.

In real world, burning hydrogen requires oxygen and produces less energy than what you need to electrolyze water into the hydrogen and oxygen you use in the burning process.

[Kruleworld]

5 minutes ago, Kasuha said:

In real world, burning hydrogen requires oxygen and produces less energy than what you need to electrolyze water into the hydrogen and oxygen you use in the burning process.

Maybe that could be the cost of using hydrogen generation (the challenge using precious oxygen)

[Kasuha]

24 minutes ago, Kruleworld said:

Maybe that could be the cost of using hydrogen generation (the challenge using precious oxygen)

Since electrolysis is important means of getting oxygen, I am afraid it would render hydrogen generator useless.

What's in the game now is unphysical but actually supplements the electrolyzer as means of getting rid of the excess hydrogen.

Ther could be a device, though, that uses hydrogen and carbon dioxide, and produces oxygen and plastics or food using some electricity. Once again, not anywhere close to realism but maybe closer than a generator turning hydrogen into energy with no other inputs.

[AlexRou]

Could be fuel cells, just saying.

[Developous]

1 hour ago, Kasuha said:

Since electrolysis is important means of getting oxygen, I am afraid it would render hydrogen generator useless.

What's in the game now is unphysical but actually supplements the electrolyzer as means of getting rid of the excess hydrogen.

Ther could be a device, though, that uses hydrogen and carbon dioxide, and produces oxygen and plastics or food using some electricity. Once again, not anywhere close to realism but maybe closer than a generator turning hydrogen into energy with no other inputs.

Symbolicly sound as well, since water leads to supporting plastics and food. But such a machine would require algae as a construction product as well in this case. Hydrogen + Algae --> Plastics + Food.