I'm coming late to this thread, sorry if someone already suggested it.
One simple test would be to have the experiment done in an enclosure filled only with Nitrogen, and see if water keeps pouring out of the membrane.
- If there is no source of external Oxygen, then there should be no water production.
That would prove the point either way.
Check with your local University Engineering Department and see if they would set up a small experiment to test it. It shouldn't cost that much. Designing the experiment, building it, doing it all on camera, would be a fun "Mr. Wizard" online class during the pandemic. That's the kind of video that many would watch on YouTube.
This video still blows my mind.
Laminar Flow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08_KlTKP50
As an aside, I bought a case of bottled water over 15 years ago that I have never used. They are the pint plastic bottles, very thin plastic. I put them in the cupboard and forgot about them. Five years ago I was looking through the cupboard for something and saw that all of the bottles were half empty. The expiration date was 2007.
Now when I say "half empty", I don't mean that the bottles are now half full, with water up to the midpoint. They are all flat, sideways, still sealed, still with water up to the cap, but they are now flat as if crsuhed.
I suspect that the water broke down into Hydrogen and Oxygen and leaked out through the thin plastic sidewalls, over time. The seal is holding against the vacuum created and the atmosphere is crushing the bottle. I live at 7,000 feet, so that is a strong vacuum, or very thin plastic. HA!
I now have them up on the counter top just to watch them, and see if the water keeps escaping. One of these days they are going to implode. Yikes!
I'm coming late to this thread, sorry if someone already suggested it.
One simple test would be to have the experiment done in an enclosure filled only with Nitrogen, and see if water keeps pouring out of the membrane.
- If there is no source of external Oxygen, then there should be no water production.
That would prove the point either way.
Check with your local University Engineering Department and see if they would set up a small experiment to test it. It shouldn't cost that much. Designing the experiment, building it, doing it all on camera, would be a fun "Mr. Wizard" online class during the pandemic. That's the kind of video that many would watch on YouTube.
This video still blows my mind.
Laminar Flow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08_KlTKP50
As an aside, I bought a case of bottled water over 15 years ago that I have never used. They are the pint plastic bottles, very thin plastic. I put them in the cupboard and forgot about them. Five years ago I was looking through the cupboard for something and saw that all of the bottles were half empty. The expiration date was 2007.
Now when I say "half empty", I don't mean that the bottles are now half full, with water up to the midpoint. They are all flat, sideways, still sealed, still with water up to the cap, but they are now flat as if crsuhed.
I suspect that the water broke down into Hydrogen and Oxygen and leaked out through the thin plastic sidewalls, over time. The seal is holding against the vacuum created and the atmosphere is crushing the bottle. I live at 7,000 feet, so that is a strong vacuum, or very thin plastic. HA!
I now have them up on the counter top just to watch them, and see if the water keeps escaping. One of these days they are going to implode. Yikes!