blobrana wrote:
Hum,
what is flat output?
A steady flow of electrons, er, as opposed to wave-like output?
BTW, has anyone actually made a battery here?
I built a fuel cell, a simple Hydrogen Oxygen Bacon cell. I used 8 molar Potassium Hydroxide at 60 degrees C as the electrolite and nickle as the catalyst/electrode.
My Supervisor was not happy about boiling Potassium Hydroxide... and was really not happy about 8 molar bubbling away.
I built the chasis of the fuel cell using perspex (acrilyic) and used Araldite to bond the pespex.
The potassium hydroxide disolved most things, including the araldite, the perspex and the skin on my hands.
My aim was to develop a practical Methanol Fuel cell, but I ran out of time, just trying to over come the problems with the Hydrogen Oxygen cell.
The electrolite was poisioned by water produced int he reaction which reduced the efficiency after about 15mins.
I got voltages as high as 1.1volt, but I nover got the current above 5miliamps... this was probably due to the relativly small surface area of my catalyst.
Thus ended my quest for a nobel prize :-)
