Comment on When Humans Use Water for Something, Is it Gone For Good or Does It Return To the Water Cycle?

• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you keep them separate sure, but the moment you burn hydrogen it just turns back into water.

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  • Instigate@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So then the truth of the matter is that we can create water from hydrogen and oxygen and we can also destroy water by reducing it to its elemental compounds. As such, water can be created and can be destroyed, meaning that the overall level of water available on earth can change over time, however our commonest uses for water have it not be destroyed and eventually return to the water cycle.

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    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Technically, yes.

      Realistically, any amount we split/convert is so small as to not matter to anything. The amount of water on the planet is absolutely ridiculous. 1233.91 quintillion liters to be more specific.

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