Can we make water?

We know that a water molecule is made up of one Oxygen atom and two Hydrogen atoms and that hydrogen fires (hydrogen combustion) produce water and heat. What we don’t know is how to control hydrogen combustion. If necessity is indeed the mother of invention, we could learn how to control Hydrogen fires when the necessity for fresh water becomes highly acute.

The water molecule
Water is both a chemical compound and a charged dipolar molecule. One oxygen atom (the red one in the illustration) and two hydrogen atoms (the white ones) link together to form a water molecule”

To create water, both Hydrogen and Oxygen molecules must be present. Combining them is, however, a major hurdle as the mixture of Hydrogen and Oxygen is highly explosive because hydrogen is flammable, oxygen promotes combustion and the reaction to produce water releases large amounts of energy.
2H2 + O2 = 2H2O + ENERGY 572 KJ

The Hindenburg disaster
Water is the main by-product of any hydrogen fire. The Hindenburg, which carried over seven million cubic feet of hydrogen could, theoretically speaking, have created as much as half a million liters of water. While there is no practical way to confirm that the Hydrogen fire did indeed produce this much water, there are unconfirmed reports from people present on the ground of a ‘light rain’. It has also not been conclusively proven that the ‘light rain’ was not water vapor (present in the air) condensation.