Heres a video clip called"onward to the edge(of the universe)  Our rock batteries will take us there thru the interstellar dark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akek6cFRZfY&feature=related .I plan to build another 18 count panel soon.This time I will crush each vitamin C pill and make sure there are no holes in the egg carton.triffid




http://hho2u.hubpages.com/hub/hho_fuel_hho_Generator  just parking this here it gives some unusal info on hho electrolytes.


May be useful to me in making rock batteries.

Sodium sulfate is much weaker than lye,.Citric acid was mentioned also.May we should go from dry organic acids to dry organic bases?What about cleaning products?triffid

@ triffid: I'm trying to stay away from anything really toxic as far as under counter chemicals.
Tonight I made four 'tea candle' cells using 5:3 aspirin/Durham's and the same ratio of vitamin c. I also made two cells using epsom salt (same 5:3 ratio only .5tsp H2O instead of 1tsp for the first two). One I crushed the salt a bit and mixed it dry, the other I tried to solulize (and crush more) before adding the Durham's.
The aspirin cell I made sweat water pretty good! I had to set some paper towels on top for a little while to wick away the condensation... Water going out is good! Have you had similar results triffid?
I have a sea salt cell I made about a week ago that holds 0.6v+ Will have to revisit that...
My itty bitty cell got a little (ha ha) broken so I scraped off some of the electrolte and now there is a tiny aluminum nub I can still attatch a clip to. It still seems to land at 0.56v
Um... I have a 'kitchen sink' cell that has a little epsom but mostly salt sub and a dash of sea salt (in the Durham's 'base') that starts at over a volt but it isn't quite dry yet (I don't think).
Vitamin c seems like it 'rises' a little bit (like a muffin only not so much) as it dries but I'm not having nearly the success triffid is (so far anyways...).

Happy experimenting,
PC

Here is a video of me trying to keep magnesium from corroding. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIqI4XItsHo

Quote from: triffid on February 20, 2012, 10:58:03 PM
Sodium sulfate is much weaker than lye,.Citric acid was mentioned also.May we should go from dry organic acids to dry organic bases?What about cleaning products?triffid

Lye is pretty much the stuff in AA batteries. Its very Toxic and highly corrosive.