Re: TC for Electrolysis?

To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: TC for Electrolysis?
From: Mark Finnis <mefinnis-at-medicine.adelaide.edu.au> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 07:16:36 -0700
Approved: twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net
Delivered-To: fixup-tesla-at-pupman-dot-com-at-fixme

At 10:15 09/01/2000 -0700, Hollmike-at-aol-dot-com wrote:

>You only need about 1.2 volts to decompose water (oxygen
>potention - hydrogen potential is zero volts).  Actually you will probably
>need a bit  more voltage to compensate for inefficiencies, but you get the
>idea.  Just get a step down transformer and full wave rectifier or even
>better, just use a car battery, if all you want is the gases.

Actually this reminds me of the large chemical plant I visited in my youth.

Very large hydrolysis plant ....... 6 volts from memory.

Amps ????

Well, the bus bars were 16" width i-beams ........ answer ..... LOTS !!

Cheers

Mark




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