Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Homemade batteries (was: nuclear psub? (fruity goodness))

[emm03@mirapoint.uow.edu.au]

Have you tried using a carbon sheet as the cath/anode? WOULD 
this work?

EM.


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 10:28:15 +0800
>From: "Warrend Greenway" <dub@linuxmail.org>  
>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Homemade batteries 
(was:  nuclear psub? (fruity goodness))  
>To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
>
>Good question. I tried them all. I do remember that all of 
my most succesful combinations
>included aluminum as one of the plates. I used brass, iron, 
and copper with the aluminum.
>I think the copper and aluminum produced the most current in 
brine. You have to have a series
>of plates if you want more than a volt and a half. 
>
>Warren.
>
>On Tue, 07 Jan 2003 03:59:25 +0800 "Warrend Greenway" writes:
>>Were the probes dissimilar metals? I made a sea-water 
battery before,
>>using plates that were arranged like gills that the brine 
flowed
>>through. Worked great. Only problem is that the elecrton 
migration 
>>consumes the plates and in the end it is more expensive 
then standard 
>>batteries!
>
>What metals did you use for plates?
>
>
>
>Mike H.
>
>
>
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