Horace Heffner wrote: > I still like the idea of driving the hydrogen into the electrolysis plate itself ....
Sumitomo is a supplier of porous nickel tubes. This would make an interesting cathode, especially if a high percentage of H2 comes through the tube, rather than remaining in bubbles on the exterior. http://www.sei.co.jp/index.en.html There are US suppliers of porous nickel, but the product is carefully controlled, due to proliferation issues. Anyway - it would be interesting to compare the yield through a porous nickel tube cathode, compared with a normal plate electrode of identical surface area ... in electrolysis under identical conditions - especially with a KOH electrolyte, which is a reputed Mills' catalyst - to see if there is any improvement in yield. This is the kind of simple experiment which would be easily available for all to view, on a University web site, for instance - IF the Mills theory was robust and accurate. Even an improvement of a few % would be HUGE news. The theory is not robust, and consequently, there is no such simple reference ... this doesn't mean that CQM is not valid under some circumstances, only that it is not robust enough to demonstrate any improvement at all in such simple conditions. Jones
