AC and Electrolysis

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I am not a scientist. But I hope you will bear with me anyway. Everybody knows how you can use DC to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen in water through electrolysis. I don't know which is which, but oxygen is drawn to one pole of an electrode in water and hydrogen is drawn to the electrode with the other pole. I was just wondering if anybody knows this. With the H20 molecule being electrified, can the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in H20 take on an attribute of being attracted to one pole or another in a magnetic field? If not, then you can reject the rest of what I am going to say.

I was reading that using a Tesla coil, you could use just one volt of DC current and transform it into many thousands of volts of AC current. Then use that current to simply electrify water. Though not to the point of sending AC arcs of electricity through the water. With the water being highly electrified with AC current, use very strong Neodymium magnets to help break the H20 molecular bond and having oxygen being attracted to one pole and hydrogen being attracted to the other pole.

Electrolysis by itself using DC isn't very efficient. But adding the power of strong Neodymium magnets to the process with an AC current could make it much more efficient. And if you can efficiently get hydrogen out of water, our energy problems would be solved.

 

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With the H20 molecule being electrified, can the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in H20 take on an attribute of being attracted to one pole or another in a magnetic field?

The answer to that specific question is no. But that's not to say that magnetic fields can't have a (modest) effect on water electrolysis. See:
The effects of magnetic fields on the electrochemical and molecular dynamics during water electrolysis

 

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Electrolysis by itself using DC isn't very efficient. But adding the power of strong Neodymium magnets to the process with an AC current could make it much more efficient.

DC is more efficient than AC when you convert the AC to DC by using a rectifier bridge with a reservoir capacitor, or a big inductive choke. One reason is that the reaction runs continuously, without reversing or stopping.

You get efficiency with DC by connecting many electrolysis cells in series, so the same current flows through all cells. That needs a higher voltage, but for say six cells, the loss of energy in the rectifier becomes irrelevant.

You can take the current directly from say, a 30 volt solar panel, to drive say, fifteen electrolysis cells in series.