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by userbinator 4009 days ago
The oxygen is not really a "waste product" - it just balances out the O2 that gets turned back into water when the hydrogen is burned...
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Calling it a waste product here was mostly in jest. It's not every day that oxygen is the byproduct of a process, and not the goal itself.

This is something I'd forgotten about this process - use energy to separate hydrogen and water, then recombine later to release the energy. And the waste product from this is the water used to start the process (and the energy and heat lost to entropy). Very clean!