Ahmed wrote:I am not sure that the use of water by catalysis risks depleting the water, since its use would reconstitute its initial composition?
From what is linked:
The use of a specific solid fuel, water-based, confined by the two electrodes of a SF-CIHT battery, and to which an intensity of 12.000 amperes is applied, ignites the water by producing an extraordinary electric flash.
Water does not burn, on the other hand, one of the components (hydrogen) is an extremely flammable gas and the other (oxygen) and a powerful oxidizer.
The combustion of hydrogen gives water by recombination with oxygen, however there are "losses", in fact, and to follow Lavoisier's thought a "recombination in energy", otherwise we could have an unlimited energy cycle!
However the problem in the access to water, if, and I say if, a technology of this kind came to see the day (in violation of the second principle of thermodynamics ...), there would be problems of a fortiori access to water in extremely dry countries, where seawater would have to be extracted.
Desalination would only be done by an additional expenditure of energy, would quickly enter into a hellish spiral of energy expenditure more and more important to meet the growing demand for energy ...
"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.