摘要：

A method of producing hydrogen and oxygen from an electrolytic solution in an electrolytic cell is described comprising the step S of: forming a relatively thin layer of the electrolytic solution on an anode; passing light through the relatively thin layer to ionize the electrolytic solution in the relatively thin layer to form oxygen adjacent the anode and to heat the solution in the layer; circulating the fluid in the electrolytic cell due to heating of the relatively thin layer to move the solution past a cathode electrically connected to the anode, preventing current from flowing from between the cathode and anode until the potential reaches a predetermined threshold thereby generating hydrogen gas at the cathdoe, and collecting the hydrogen gas as the gas froms at the cathode.

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