Hold the presses ...
After 150 years, the lead-acid battery may be poised to be reborn as
Prime Mover, and yours-truly may be an early witness, thanks to a Vo
lurker. Lots of activity in this niche lately.
BTW - if you have not seen it, here is the YouTube video of the power
supply (battery array) for Aaron's electrolysis cell, which is said to
have inspired the experiment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUGa2jiYeSI
In this ongoing replication attempt, a similar 4 battery array has
reportedly already delivered approximately double the rated amp-hours,
yet was operating at higher voltage than it started with, and is still
going strong. Of course, the batteries could been damaged from having
given up too much chemical energy... or the ubiquitous 'measurement
error' has not been ruled out.
This is not my experiment (wish it was); but let's hope that it is
repeatable by others, and that the inventor will allow a full report
and/or open-sourcing, should the results hold.
The lab is close enough that I am headed over there as soon as possible.
If this is to be yet another disappointment and false alarm, then that
kind of "deflation" seems to be the downside risk of life-on-the-edge of
mainstream science, as it were. 'Cutting-edge' or 'bleeding-edge' ...
the POV difference is like the cup being half-full or half-empty.
Jones
