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

["Warrend Greenway" <dub@linuxmail.org>]

Sure does. I remember using coils of aluminum cans to get the
surface area on the aluminum, and coils of copper foil. This
is why they use porous lead in the lead-acid batteries.

Warren.

> 
> On Monday, Jan 6, 2003, at 22:44 US/Central, Warrend Greenway wrote:
> 
> > You know what happens when you put a brass screw in an aluminum plate, 
> > right?
> > There is an electrical imbalance between the metals caused by their 
> > valance
> > electrons. The electrons will migrate from one metal to another, 
> > causing corrosion.
> > The metal sourcing the electrons will be positive. It actually is 
> > quite practical
> > since this is basically how most batteries work.
> 
> Lucky for us, we live in a universe that has valence electrons!
> 
> I'm guessing that my homemade batteries failed because I didn't have 
> enough surface area on those plates. If you think of it that way -- 
> with one of the plates being the source of the extra electrons -- then 
> it becomes essential to have a lot of them that can move out, doesn't 
> it?
> 
> David
> buchner@wcta.net
> Osage, MN, USA
> http://customer.wcta.net/buchner
> 

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