Graphite-Paper - Aluminium-Foil galvanic cell with 1.7 to 1.92 Volts

[donkrueger]

 Stefan your work sounds cool. I an't see the videos because of the YT flap, but I found another link on YT for Stanford University that has some cool work similar to yours. Here's the link if you want to take a look. ou can paste it into the search bar on YT.
Don       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPTcQJPbGHw

[hartiberlin]

Stefan your work sounds cool. I an't see the videos because of the YT flap, but I found another link on YT for Stanford University that has some cool work similar to yours. Here's the link if you want to take a look. ou can paste it into the search bar on YT.
Don       http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPTcQJPbGHw

Yes, not bad, but my lampblack-Acryl-Binder-Alufoil battery with a water-K2CO3 electrolyte has the advantage, that it does not need
any dangerous lithium and only the alufoil is consumed and the lampblack ( graphite-paper ) electrode is not consumed and can be reused
several times and is really cheap to be selfmade !
I don´t need nanocarbon... I can even do my own very conductive graphite from normal coal briquetts by using
red glowing coal briquetts and putting them out in a metallic box, so the inner not yet burned coal has been converted to
highly conductive graphite powder. ( The black powder below the ash layer...!)

It is very simple.

Regards, Stefan.

[hartiberlin]

Okay guys, I am back with some experiments.

I just did the day before yeasterday a few introduction experiments and now today the rest of the series,
cause I wanted to see, how good also magnesium alloy rods like AZ1X and AZ61A and finally again a Durafix Zamak Alloy rod
would work with the
K2CO3 - water electrolyte.

These alloy rods were a failure as you can see in the videos. Murphy´s law allways hits first !

But then I finally repeated the alufoil- K2CO3-water lampblack-Acrylbinder-paper cell and it was a huge success

with only about 2 cm^2 area I got 1.6 Volts open circuit voltage and over 20 mA short circuit current  !

Well have a look for yourself here at my newest videos ! These are 32 parts all in all... so you need a bit time to watch it all and they are still uploading,
cause they are in huge HD resolution.

Enjoy !

http://www.youtube.com/user/overunitydotcom/videos



Regards, Stefan.

[b_rads]

Stefan,
Wow, alot of catching up to do.  You have been a very busy fellow.  Your work is very impressive and cannot wait to give it a go.  Curious, have you tried zinc yet?  Thank you for all the nice things you have said on my videos.  Time to start reviewing what you have done - going to be busy it appears.

Brad

[hartiberlin]

Hi Brad,

No I haven´t tried Zinc yet. to hard to get for the normal user...

I still need to get me some Zinc metal to test it out with it instead of Alufoil.


The next thing I will do soon is videotaping the making of a big graphite paper electrode and run
an incandescent bulb with it with Aluminium foil and K2CO3 electrolyte.

I still need to get me some Zinc metal.

But then I wll further try better to use some oxides like
TiO2 and ZnO to make only some graphite cells that would hopefully put out also
power without anything corroding at all.
Maybe we can get a cell to work without any pute metal at all which will
just convert the background radiation or just the
infrared radiation to electrical power.

Surely it must be possible with the right material to tap into this background radiation
and make cells that do not corrode and will convert this radiation on 24/7 daily basis.

Probably these cells will not be so powerfull, but if they are cheap to make it is only a question to scale
the used surface area up and thus get more power. If they will only use lampblack, paper and a bit Acryl Binder
and cheap TiO2 and ZnO, these will be dirt cheap to make and they will be easy to be selfmade without high
cost equipment. Then stacked these will probably totally replace any solar cell installations, cause they will work 24/7/365.

Regards, Stefan.