KARPEN PILE

[pomodoro]

Yep, makes sense,  I just found an interesting paper http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/j150543a032regarding some H overpotential studies in NaOH, it even used platinized Pt as a reference.  I should be able to get the full article on wednesday, to keep as a reference as my tests progress.

[profitis]

Exellent find.I'm toying with a decision to reveal the chinese papers on overpotentials over here in which they compared smooth platinum to platinized platinum for hydrogen but I don't think I should put it here because it might give tangent ideas away.they also compared smooth gold to black platinum under H2 and got volages in the 0.3-0.5v range on a permanent basis.voltages would fluctuate around +- 0.05v like an ordinary batterys voltage fluctuates depending on the days temperature and in accord with nernst equation.the guys(hardcore research institute scientists) were shocked and wondered out loud if certain other claimed 2lot violators round the globe (in the 80's) were in fact real. 

[profitis]

Its important to note that there's a line between a concentration cell and a spillover cell eg. I can take two exact same Pt smooth or black foils and put them in the setup and get a strictly nernstian voltage.if we take two different inert metals then it becomes a more spillover-induced voltage for reasons other than concentration and more towards overpotential.

[pomodoro]

Mr profitus, surely simple cells like these would have been tested for abnormal behavior worth exploiting by now?

[profitis]

I was thinking the same thing mr pomodoro.either their research ended in stalemate due to cost/benefit ratio or their research continued,deep underground.perhaps things have been shelved I don't know.catalyst spillover is also a recently discovered phenomena so the connection would have been made very recently or not at all.nontheless we can take credit for this with a few simple experiments.