On Mar 14, 2008, at 12:01 PM, Jones Beene wrote:
I was getting posts from you yesterday.
It appears you received my test post. I haven't received that back
yet. I also noted a post I made yesterday that did not ever show up
in the archives.
Let me say again, that if the mechanism you suggest is really
happening, and if the HOOH has not been accounted for, then the
Kanzius process is more efficient than thought.
In fact, it may be as efficient as DC electrolysis.
There is no evidence for this at all, one way or the other, AFIK,
because there has been no published calorimetry data. Further, the
process can ultimately consume all the solution, so eventually the
oxygen is generated:
2 HOOH -> O2 + 2 H2O
Some of oxygen may go into formation of NaOH in the final residue
when the process is carried to completion, but that amount must
necessarily be small if the initial NaCl concentration is small.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
