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Re:Hydrogen’s moment is here at last? by Ratalala on Friday October 08, 2021 @09:57PM (#28806320)
Hydrogen escapes the atmosphere because it is extremely light and the planet's gravity cannot hold on to it.
Re:Hydrogen’s moment is here at last? by jhgb on Friday October 08, 2021 @10:04PM (#28806358)
That just means you've invented a new fancy way to combat rising oceans!

(No, in reality, we have nowhere near the power to make appreciable amounts of hydrogen escape. Even if you electrolyzed water continuously with 2.5 TW of power, which is roughly global average electricity generation, you'd lose something like 4 cubic kilometers of water per year. The Earth meanwhile has over a billion cubic kilometers of water in its oceans, so you'd need over 250 million years to make them disappear.)

Re:Hydrogen’s moment is here at last? by pfdietz on Saturday October 09, 2021 @07:43AM (#28809024)
Only if the hydrogen is very high up. Hydrogen released at ground level will almost entirely be oxidized before it can get that high.