Discovery of 'dark oxygen' from deep-sea metal lumps could trigger rethink of origins of life

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In a global first, scientists working in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in the North Pacific Ocean have found that metallic nodules on the seafloor produce their own oxygen, dubbed "dark oxygen."

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This is passive splitting of water.

I wonder if it could be scaled up.

Probably need an anode & cathode to separate the hydrogen and oxygen ions.