Hydrogen Only Electrolysis

[goldenequity]

This isn't exactly the kind of dialog I was looking to generate... oh well.. see ya.

[slider1]

Don't go away! Some good thoughts, let me give it some thought. I see your path of thought, interesting.

[Zolar1]

The use of Baking Soda will produce the following:

66% Hydrogen
30% Carbon Monoxide
4%  Carbon Dioxide

[newbie123]

This guy is all talk, with nothing to show. And looking for money

[professor]

Hi Just my few cents worth.
If you use one Aluminium Electrode and one made of steel or Stainless  you essentially create a half wave Rectifier.  Using two Aluminium electrodes you have a back to back rectifier and no current will flow after a few minutes.
Try it yourself it works ,using a baking soda solution. It was my first rectifier when I could not effort to buy a selenium one in 1952.
I suppose Salt would work as well but as someone mentioned it gives off nasty Chlorine Gas. Kanzius used saltwater and RF and created just hydrogen and it burned slowly with a orange colored flame.
I used a Light dimmer (CheapPWM) ) and a 60watt bulb in series it will light up half brightness and if you use two Alu.Electrodes
it will slowly dim and soon you have no Light at all,to say this in plain none technical Words.
Professor

True. You CAN generate Cl2 from the anode.
However it's not quite that cut and dried.
It has to do with creating a redox environment in solution.... a condition created chemically called "overvoltage".

When there is a dilute solution of salt water electrolyte, you are only making Hydrogen and Oxygen.
When you begin to saturate the solution with an overabundance of Chloride ions, you create overvoltage chemically,
and the anode now reacts with the Chloride ion (cat-ion) instead of the Oxygen.  You get chlorine gas.... and hydrogen gas
of course off the cathode.
Its the same with baking soda.... too much and you produce CO2.
Here's the deal.
If he is "inhibiting" the anode (enough) to prevent it's interaction with Oxygen....then it would fail to interact with a Chloride ion as well.
So, no chlorine gas.
The theoretical question I pose is:
How could he do that?