Slight problems.
The resistivity of high purity (de-ionized) water runs about 15 Megohm-cm at 26 C.
With the cylindrical configuration of the Cell, unless it was filled with 30 ohm-cm
seawater the most current attainable using a 12 volt battery with 1500 ohm-cm
water (4 orders of magnitude reduction in resistivity) would be less
than 1.0 ampere.
About 2.5 amperes would be attainable by hooking all of the concentric
cylinders surrounding the tubular cathode, to the anode instead of "floating" them.
OTOH, treating the Cell as a stacked series of cylindrical electrolytic capacitors
doesn't do much either. :-)
Fred
