Hydrogen as a Bouyant Energy Source.

[kajunbee]

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/926321-lTUJnC/

Kolbacit, I do not have any experience with water electrolysis. But I am aware that it can be dangerous to pressurize the system. But I did some searches on high pressure electrolysis. In the link provided only one side is pressurized. It operates with a differential pressure of several hundred pounds. As I said before I do not have any experience with this technology and your probably already aware of it.

[kajunbee]

I don't believe Smokys talking extremely high pressures though.

[Corton]

The picture attachments are HUGE and are difficult to understand due to having to scroll.

[sm0ky2]

Sorry about the pictures , it is hard to resize them on my phone
You are probably better off as my artwork sucks


The pressure of the system is dependent upon the tolerances of
each component.


The tensile strength of the balloon and its' elasticity will be the
governing factors over the pressure in the buoyant system.


The pressure of the electrolysis system (high side) will obviously
be at least greater than the balloon, as to facilitate inflation.


The low pressure side will operate at a pressure determined by the
balloon and the point at which the system is no longer buoyant.
Increasing pressure on the low side increases the buoyant-gravitational
constant but decreases the pressure difference
between high and low pressure tanks and more volume of gas is
lowered in pressure over time.


It's a sort of trade off.
As long as the low pressure side is high enough to operate the fuel cell
~100% of the electrical energy can be reobtained in addition to the
energy gained from the buoyant generation system.
Think of it like the Hindenburg on a sliding rod so it only carries its'
cargo up and down.