[NewCandle] Microwave'd ham with electrolyte sauce

[Nick Reiter]

> Let's hear about your plate experiments, Nick.
> >From my own experiments I can tell you that a
> practical electrolyser using very conductive
> electrolytes requires some kind of edge seal to
> isolate currents that want to flow around the
> middle plates entirely. Ham may not have that
> problem because he's using undoped ( very resistive
> ) water.

Worked on them as a formal project for work from about
August of 2003 to maybe end of 2004.  It was a minor
project headed by one of the sons of the company
founder.  Not really tied into solar in any way - just
under the same roof and business umbrella.  Mixed gas
electrolyzers intended to go into automotive or diesel
use for fuel augmentation. The project had been sort
of kicked off or initially proposed by some charlatans
from Pennsylania who talked a good enough line to
convince management to go forward with it.  A couple
of us were skeptical from the start, having heard all
the Browns Gas wars over the years...  In the end, the
laws of thermodynamics remained inviolate, and it was
determined  - and finally confessed by management -
that it really DID take more power to make the Hy-Oxy
than you gained in fuel savings of any sort.  So it
was all shelved.

Essentially, it was a long stack (maybe 26 inches) of
8 inch diameter circular stainless steel (316) plates
in a phenolic tube.  Edge seals were provided by PVC
or delrin rings  I think it ran on about 90V rectified
from a jumbo alternator.  Electrolyte was about 5M
KOH.  I think it was able to make about 10 slpm of
Hy-Oxy gas at some many kilowatts.  We tried a number
of designs.  I even spent time trying to look for
evidence of anomalous heat, deuterium, mystery "3rd
gas", temperature anomalies, all claimed by the PA
bunch.  Nada.  It was just an electrolyzer making
blended bubbles collected in a pressure tank to maybe
50PSI.  Good for quartz and glass working, but
otherwise just a bad taste in our mouths beyond that.

N



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