Tip of the Day... (for waterfuel enthusiasts everywhere) The redox potential for splitting HO-OH is listed as 0.77 V, a little more than half the level for H2O.
In practice, one might expect perhaps twice the amount of hydrogen gas from the electrolysis of peroxide, as one gets from water, using the same net amount of electrical input. WRONG! It is more like 12-1 to 15-1. One might expect that if one carried a dilute peroxide solution in an automobile, as a substitue fuel, that there is no way that it can be split using only power from the car's alternator to make enough hydrogen to power the vehicle. WRONG. This can be done - even using a dilute soution of peroxide (in salt water) which is probably safe enough for normal transportation use (will not explode spontaneously). Try it - especially if you have a mulitplate hydrobooster. The design we are using has 8 stainless steel plates, not unlike the one Terry Blanton has built except fewer larger plates, spaced further apart, with only the ends being powered. A few drugists carry 35% HO-OH which is more than adequate. CAVEAT: The corrosiveness of this technique in unknown, but is likely severe, and can be expected to significantly shorten the lifetime of an ICE ! ergo - experiment only on a junker (or better yet a Junkers, which has no valves to corrode): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkers_Jumo_205 Jones PS you will only get the massively increased amount of gas for a certain time period which is based on the initial peroxide enrichment. The gas output starts out strongly and decreases gradually as the peroxide is used up preferentially.
