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Nathan Tuggy
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Isn't electrolysis of water less efficient for a space craftspacecraft than pressurized oxygen tanks? The ISS uses electrolysis but to do this you have to send water to space which weighs more than oxygen and only contains only 1 of every 3 parts oxygen. So wouldn't it be better just to send oxygen up, and obviously mix it with other gases?

Isn't electrolysis of water less efficient for a space craft than pressurized oxygen tanks? The ISS uses electrolysis but to do this you have to send water to space which weighs more than oxygen and only contains only 1 of every 3 parts oxygen. So wouldn't it be better just to send oxygen up, and obviously mix it with other gases?

Isn't electrolysis of water less efficient for a spacecraft than pressurized oxygen tanks? The ISS uses electrolysis but to do this you have to send water to space which weighs more than oxygen and only contains only 1 of every 3 parts oxygen. So wouldn't it be better just to send oxygen up, and obviously mix it with other gases?

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Aaron M
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Isn't electrolysis of water less efficient for a space craft than pressurized oxygen tanks?

Isn't electrolysis of water less efficient for a space craft than pressurized oxygen tanks? The ISS uses electrolysis but to do this you have to send water to space which weighs more than oxygen and only contains only 1 of every 3 parts oxygen. So wouldn't it be better just to send oxygen up, and obviously mix it with other gases?