How does water split during electrolysis and can adding substances accelerate hydrogen production?

The water molecule has a very strong bond & I ask this question because I want to know if this process can be accelerated by adding something to the water to enhance the process. Hydrogen fuel cells will soon be the power supplier of the future, so getting free hydrogen in large qualities will be in big demand. If the process of electrolysis can be accelerated so much for the better; don’t you agree-?

No, I do not agree, because it cannot.  Think about what happens when hydrogen and oxygen burn.  The result is water and a lot of heat (because of that strong bond).  It takes a lot of energy to then liberate the hydrogen from the oxygen again.  Like, the same amount as was given off when the two joined to make the water.
What would you add to accelerate the electrolysis process?  Something to make the water more conductive?  It's still going to take the same amount of energy to split the molecules as they gave off when they formed.  If you added some magic substance that provides that energy, where would the energy in that substance have come from?  You've got to pay for the energy somewhere?If hydrogen fuel cells become the power supplier of the future, it will only be to use hydrogen as a an energy storage medium.  An energy source will still be needed to create the hydrogen.  It will not be free, except in the sense that "free" electric solar energy could be used to crack water.  But is solar energy really free?  It costs a lot to build solar cells, modules, arrays and inverters and they take up valuable space.  I am not saying these things should not be done, it is just folly to think the energy they produce  will be free.  The fuel cell is simply an energy converter between the energy storage medium (hydrogen) and the load, much the way a power electronic motor drive is an energy converter between the energy storage medium (battery)  and the motor/load.

As John said, nothing is "free". One approach to the hydrogen problem might be to use hydrogen in a liquid, methanol, for example. This can be produced from green matter which uses photosynthesis , a photochemical reaction which is as "free" as you are likely to get it.However,  methanol still requires land, labour, infrastructure and energy to produce it. If on balance it is not economic, then it wont happen. I  worked with a company that produced  fuel cells for producing energy on small islands where tradionally motor generator sets were used. Fuel cells are actually quite complex devices, and I doubt that the locals would have been able to maintain it, whereas motor generator sets are quite simple, the technology is a hundred years old, and plenty of people can fix them.Despite my comments, I am all for finding alternative energy sources, but I don't have millions to pump into new ideas, the sort of people that do want to make money out of their investment in their lifetime.Cheers,Richard

 

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