Unfortunately, holding the copper doped fluorite with copper ptes didn't actually help that mubsp; While things were less eic, the taiill failed, and the copper itself showed clear signs of degradation. It was as if the surface had been sprayed with a fine mist of acid. The ptes themselves stayed intact thankfully, though I did end up getting minor injuries on my hands from hauling the ptes up to the surfabsp; So I've taken to using stone shaped tongs to pick them up and move them.

  Which basically means I'm stuck submerging the crystals in water. I have a few thoughts on how I should proceed with the experiments, sihere are some risks involved that I was unaware of previously. If I had used salt water, for instahe water would probably beuch more acidic, due to the presence of dissociated chlorine. The water I was using robably being acidic due to the extra protons present, but at a certain point, the ductivity of the surrounding water and tank would promote the produ of diatomic hydrogen over free protons.

  That also means, however, that I 't just expose metals ihe water to increase the ductivity, as aals that we have access toing to be rapidly destroyed by acid. So instead, I'm going to o get creative. There are a few options avaible, and I think a bination of them is probably the best bet moving forward. First, I should have the vat of water be fairly rge in size as pared to the amount of hydrogen output I expebsp; This will hopefully distribute the electrical burden across a rger volume, and make the tration of acid lower at the edges of the tainer.

  Sed, while the inside of the chamber should be covered in an acid resistant material, like quartz, just uhat surface, I'd like to have copper pting with grounding wires buried into the ground. Additionally, I want to install a fairly robust lightning rod nearby. This produ of hydrogen is going to cause a buildup of positive charge, which is likely to attract lightning strikes. Having lightning striking nearby a bunch of tained hydrogen gas is very hazardous, so I want to make sure there are safe ways for that charge to be handled.

  Third, the hydrogen is going to be produced in water, the resultant gas mixture is going to be wet hydrogen, with water vapor mixed in, so I'll need a drying process like I used before. For this facility, I want to have a few batch freezers avaible to freeze the water out of the air. I think that having the facility dug uhe ground, rather than on the surface, will help reduce risk.

  At the deepest point in the facility is where I want to produce the hydrogen. There is a tradeoff with lower ambient mana underground, but I don't think I'll build too deep that it'll be that much of a . Above the produ area, I want four valves that each go to pressure tank freezers. While any particur freezer is ihe others be ed or maintained. Then, those freezers will empty into a much rger tank for keeping dried hydrogen with it's top being just a few feet under ground.

  All these tanks will have spring powered emergency release valves going to a fre stack, with one itings along the way to prevent actal blowbabsp; Though I'll o do a bit of careful piping to keep a pilot light burning in the fre. The part of the facility that is above ground will tain the valves and fixtures for draining the rge tank into other taio charge them with pressurized hydrogen.

  I actually was able to get some help from the stru teams that are building our wall to dig out the areas underground for the hydrogen facility. It's just easier for them to get the stohan it is to haul it from other locations, so they were more than willing to help out.

  All in all, we dug out an area 40 feet by 40 feet at the top, which tapered off in three 20 foot tall yers. The yer down was 30x30, and the yer uhat was 20x20. Part of the purpose of putting the hydrogen produ area so far underground is to reduce the surface charge difference, and hopefully allow strategically pced lightning rods to reduce the likelihood of actual damage .

  Digging the area out, with the help of the stru teams only took fifteen days, though using stone shaping to install crounding cables into the walls ended up taking aen days. I installed a total of thirteen thick cables each proceeding out in a straight line positioned in a desding spiral to reduce overp as much as possible. Each cable goes forty feet outward, and then I used stone shaping to fill the hole in tight around the copper cable again.

  While the stru teams were digging the area out, I did some additional testing, to make sure that what I had pnned would work. I ran a few tests using lightstone in pce of the eventual quartz for the hydrogen produ chamber, and found that the lightstone was fairly resistant to the acids involved, but some of the impurities were slowly beien away, causing the lightstoo bee brittle. However, if I thehe remaining stone and shaped it again, that problem was essentially solved.

  So, rather than attempt to build the chamber out of pure quartz, I figured I could acid wash existing lightstohen reform it to make the new chamber. Sihe process is somewhat slow, I set up a tainer on the surface with a small piece of the copper fluorite submerged in water, and then put pulverized lightstoo the tub to be acid washed.

  I'd made enough of the acid washed lightstone by the time I went to go install cables that I was able to coat the inside of the acid wash chamber with it, so that I could be a little more negligent with it while I went to work on the rest of the facility. After this facility is done, I might want to sider doing some material testing on other things in this acid water.

  The lowest level took me twenty-five days to finish building, and an additional six days to fiune some of the emergency relief valves. The hydrogen geion chamber sits in the middle of the room, with very thick walls, and cables reag in from the outer walls onto the surfaces. The inside of the chamber is coated in the acid washed lightstone, which, iime I spent building this chamber, had barely reacted at all iher tainer on the surface.

  Maintenance of this chamber will require stone shaping to open a hole to ehrough every half a year or so. There are four main outlet tubes, two safety relief valves, a bypass to fre line, and a purposeful oi to fail before the rest of the chamber does, in case the other safety devices fail to work.

  On the floor above that sits the four freezer chambers where the four tubes on the previous level go to. Eae has it's own stirling cooler that I took ten days designing. Unlike a lot of the other coolers I've made in the past, these ones have a very long and straight yout, such that their hot e exger reaches all the way to the surface.

  Building out the rest of the freezer floor took an additional thirty-three days. This floor was more difficult, because I had to design these chambers to be able to be thawed out and drained. So the gas i actually enters higher up in the chamber, and liquid draining valves had to be installed that were alsht to prevent gas leakage. Ultimately, the way I've implemehis relies on a small quartz viewing window to allow a small amount of water to be left at the bottom of the drainage valve, so that the water, ahe ice, form a solid seal, preventing gas escape through the valve.

  The third floor, and st below ground floor, simply sists of a fairly rge pressure tank, with a few outlet pipes going up to the surface where the hydrogen be collected from. This floor took aen days to make. As with all the prior levels, multiple safety valves are installed to prevent acts. Each chamber is equipped with two maers to measure pressure, along with a warning bel of what I sider safe vs unsafe.

  Then, on the surface, a siory building is built over the prior floor, with access down to the lower levels. One side of this building also houses the sed rgest size stirling engine powered by fluorite, which is used to drive the freezer coolers. Rather than build the lightning rods here, where it would still be very dangerous to get a spark, I instead went out about thirty feet in each cardinal dire from the building, and installed 30 foot tall obelisks with a thick copper cable running down the ter of ead into the ground about teo a wide metal pte. Building out everything on the surface took another forty-two days.

  Of all the buildings I've built, this one definitely seems to give off the most evil stist vibes. The four freezer heat reje ends make the outside of the building shimmer with rising hot air when they're running, and the obelisks oside make it seem like I'm doing some kind of ritual. From the outside, it probably does really seem like that. We're eveing a magivisible fmmable gas from it. I'd definitely be suspicious if I didn't know better.

  I think I'm sympathizing with mad stists over this. I imagine myself yelling at someone during a thuorm, "Whatever you do, don't smash the obelisks, everything would explode!" Then the heroes smash the obelisks, and in a true rpg game fashion, lightning strikes, and the whole facility explodes takih it. Perhaps the mad stists in stories aren't as mad as they seem...