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Originally Posted by touringcamry
I know that. Stick that stuff in your engine it will contaminate the engine. You'd probably need something that is at least potable which is far less common than salt water. While you could desalinate or distill salt water, it it will take a lot of energy to do it.
But then what happens when you start taking billions of gallons of water out of the ocean?
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This isn't an effective use of energy but all that water taken out of the ocean will have to end up back in the ocean. The process turns water into hydrogen and oxygen and then combustion turns it back to water.
Even if the water didn't return, taking 10 billion gallons of water out of the ocean won't have a measurable change in the level of the ocean either way.
At 1.37 Billion Cubic Kilometers the oceans hold a huge amount of water. There are 2.64 Trillion gallons in a single cubic kilometer.
The total number of gallons in the ocean are 3.62E20
That is 3.62 Billion Billion gallons
or 362,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons, and your worried about removing 10,000,000,000. That's removing 0.0000000027% of the total.
