• gmtom@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You know you can make hydrogen out of water right? You just need high voltage electricity.

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      3 months ago

      Likewise, why would they bother with balloons, at all? We know they were highly advanced, it seems more likely they’d just skip to planes?

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      3 months ago

      I’m assuming you subscribe to the Baghdad battery idea? Even that would produce only a tiny amount of electricity if it did at all. It definitely couldn’t be used for this or even the lighting idea some crazy people support. It may have produced a tiny jolt and have been used for religious purposes as they couldn’t explain the small shock.