KARPEN PILE

[profitis]

Some guys from around here and other forums have replicated similar cells eg ibpointless from overunityreseaerch has a youtube up but they usually have not got basic electrochemistry skills enough to know mistakes or errors that I've seen there.I haven't seen a genuinly cool and open breakdown of the museum piece anywhere but I can understand why the museum keeper is very protective over the thing after all the to-and-fro round europe trips its been on.I've myself replicated a small original using gold and platinum and it definitely works as advertised.no galvanic corrosion whatsoever correlating to the current draw.

[profitis]

I'm going to answer u now phill..

[profitis]

Aha..The amazing thing about a karpen is that it can be fully submerged and shaken,kicked or thrown and it still works like a bomb @phil.diffusion of gases takes place even through the electrolyte so gravity isn't an issue.anyways you can have it in drycell form with gel electrolyte so long as there's some air in there.

[profitis]

Membranes will work ofcourse phil and yes you can roll it up in the same way as todays nicads are rolled up in the shell.

[Philip Hardcastle]

@profitis, if membrane are used, and thin film is employed, it seems that the the base of a laptop of area 1,000 cm2 (40x25) could be full covered by a Karpen pile, the requisite voltage being obtained by having 10 layers of 100um each, it would have a volume of 100CC and weigh a few hundred grams.


The question is what current would 1,000cm2 electrode area produce at say 320K (being the working temp of the computer), assuming that you have some knowledge of correlation with ambient temperature?